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Cambridge students excel at NWERC

jms213 — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:01:13 +0000

Congratulations to the three Cambridge teams who excelled at the Northwestern European Regional Contest 2013 (NWERC).

The NWERC is integrated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest and draws students from colleges and universities throughout Belgium, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

The Cambridge teams, which included a number of Computer Laboratory students (Boris Grubic, Vlad Alexandru Gavrilă, Bogdan-Cristian Tataroiu, Eduard Kalinicenko and Oleg Oshmyan) came 2nd, 4th and 5th, which means that Cambridge has qualified for the ACM-ICPC world finals in June 2014.

Raspberry Pi wins INDEX 2013 award

jms213 — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 08:35:29 +0000

Congratulations to Raspberry Pi, which was been awarded an INDEX 2013 Award in the Play and Learning category.

The INDEX awards are the biggest design awards in the world and are widely recognised as the most important.

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Steven Murdoch receives Royal Society-EPSRC fellowship

jms213 — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:06:04 +0000

Dr Steven Murdoch is one of seven Royal Society research fellows to receive further research funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), in what is a new collaboration between the Royal Society and the EPSRC.

Eben Upton receives prestigious Silver Medal

jms213 — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:56:49 +0000

Eben Upton, co-founder of the Rapsberry Pi Foundation, is one of four entrepreneurs to receive a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal.

The Silver Medal recognises an outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to British engineering.

RealVNC wins most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation

jms213 — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:48:06 +0000

RealVNC, co-founded by Professor Andy Hopper and Dr Andy Harter, has won the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, the premier award for UK innovation in engineering.

John Robinson FREng, chair of the MacRobert Award judging panel, said: “RealVNC was selected for the MacRobert award because of the engineering excellence and tenacious entrepreneurship required for them to have opened the door to countless new markets for new product and services. For a relatively small UK company with no external investors to have grown to work with the world’s biggest technology companies is truly inspiring.”