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Lab Professors elected Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Professors  John Daugman and Neil Dodgson have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The honour recognised their ‘personal contribution to the advancement of mathematics as a discipline and as a profession’.

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Mohan Ganesalingam awarded Beth Prize

Congratulations to Mohan Ganesalingam who has been (jointly) awarded the Beth Prize (see http://www.folli.org/) for his PhD thesis “The Language of Mathematics”. The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize is awarded annually to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and … Continue reading

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Professor Peter Robinson best in-category winner at Pervasive 2011

Professor Peter Robinson was awarded best in-category at Pervasive 2011 for the video ‘The emotional computer’. The conference is the premier forum for researchers to present their latest results in all areas related to architecture, design, implementation, application and evaluation … Continue reading

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Andreas Koltes awarded IET Postgraduate Scholarship

Andreas Koltes has won the IET Postgraduate Scholarship, one of two awarded in 2011. His research is focused on the design of flexible low-power memory systems for manycore processors, part of the Loki project. Andreas is a PhD student at … Continue reading

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Peter Calvert wins ACM Student Research Competition

Peter Calvert won first place, in the undergraduate category of the ACM Student Research Competition, for his final year project on offloading Java to graphics processors. Peter is now doing a PhD at the Computer Laboratory under the supervision of … Continue reading

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Computer Lab PhD scoops EAPLS Best PhD Dissertation Award 2010

Dr Alexey Gotsman has been named the winner of the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems’s Best Dissertation Award 2010 for his dissertation on logics and analyses for concurrent heap-manipulating programs.  

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Computer Laboratory to start full recycling scheme

The Computer Laboratory will operate a full recycling system from April. All waste will be taken to a central recycling site, where it will be sorted. The new recycling system will include food waste and building users are requested to … Continue reading

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Anil Madhavapeddy wins Verisign grant

Anil Madhavapeddy is one of four researchers chosen to receive a Verisign grant of US$75,000 to pursue projects aimed at strengthening Internet infrastructure. The winners were chosen in four categories with Anil the winner in the DNS Security category for … Continue reading

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Tom Cashman wins Eurographics dissertation award

Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, has chosen Tom Cashman 2010 dissertation as one of this year’s three award winners. Tom’s dissertation, “NURBS-compatible subdivision surfaces”, had previously been the runner-up in the 2010 BCS Distinguished Dissertation competition. The citation … Continue reading

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Robert Watson and Jonathan Anderson scoop Cambridge Ring Hall of Fame Award 2011.

Robert Watson and Jonathan Anderson have won the Publication of the Year Award 2011, at the Cambridge Ring’s Hall of Fame Awards, for ‘Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX’. This research in operating system and application security was performed in collaboration with Ben … Continue reading

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