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Department of Computer Science and Technology

The Department of Computer Science and Technology, for most of its history known as the Computer Laboratory, is an academic department of the University of Cambridge. It covers Computer Science along with many aspects of technology, engineering and mathematics, from theory, languages and machine learning to systems, security, graphics and human-centred computing. More about the department …

Web site migration: This static-file web server hosted the main departmental web site from 1993 to 2019, when parts of it were outsourced to www.cst.cam.ac.uk. The UIS service that hosts www.cst.cam.ac.uk will shut down by 10 December 2026, so we are migrating some of that content back to www.cl.cam.ac.uk, and plan to rename this site to www.cst.cam.ac.uk in early December 2026. Requests to www.cl.cam.ac.uk will then be redirected there, so most existing links should keep working. More …

Researchers receive funding to explore ambitious new ways of improving AI security

7 October 2026

At a time when concerns about AI safety are hitting the headlines, and even some AI leaders themselves are urgently warning we need to develop the technology more carefully, three researchers here are receiving funding from a £50m UK government programme to explore ambitious new ways of improving AI security.

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Undergraduates' work is presented at major conference

6 October 2026

Among the presenters at a major ACM conference today will be an undergraduate from this Department, sharing research on ways to improve bias and accuracy in new AI tools that are being developed to assess patients' mental health.

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Professor becomes new head of Royal Meteorological Society

1 October 2026

Professor Emily Shuckburgh CBE has today (1 October 2026) become the President of the Royal Meteorological Society. Emily is Professor of Environmental Data Science in this Department.

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National Cyber Award for our Professor of Emergent Harms

29 September 2026

Many congratulations to our colleague Prof Alice Hutchings, who was honoured with The Alan Turing Cyber Leadership Award yesterday (28 September) at the National Cyber Awards 2026.

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