2009
Web server logs
7 December 2009
The web server logs (subsets of which are accessible using the cl-personal-www-log command) are now being recorded in "combined" log format rather than "common". This format adds two extra fields, giving referrer and user-agent information. More …
Industrial Supporters' Club recruitment fair
17 November 2009
The 2009 Recruitment Fair of the Computer Laboratory’s Industrial Supporters’ Club takes place in the attrium of the William Gates Building on Thursday, 19 November, 11:30–16:00. More …
December 15th 2009 - Overseas Postgraduate paper applications deadline
6 November 2009
M.Phil in Advanced Computer Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science October 2010 entry, overseas and EU applicants More …
Changing the name on telephones
26 October 2009
Until now, changing the name displayed on our VoIP telephones has been a big deal, involving an interaction with the telecomms office. We now have access to an experimental facility allowing us to change these strings ourselves. More …
cron job migration from legacy servers
21 October 2009
In preparation for decommissioning our older omnipotent servers, various cron jobs are being rehomed. This should not disrupt thing, but please let sys-admin know if there appear to be problems. More …
Computer Lab hosts The Open House Festival of Interactive Technology
14 September 2009
The Open House Festival of Interactive Technology, one of the key events during this year's HCI 2009 Conference, was held at the Computer Laboratory on September 2nd. The Festival, organised by the University and Microsoft Research Cambridge, was a one-off event to mark the University's 800th anniversary. More …
Linux kernel vulnerability tweaks
14 August 2009
Due to a Linux kernel vulnerability a number of machines have had mmap_min_addr set to 4096 or had modules.alias tweaked to disable some protocols. If any users suspect that this may have broken things on their system, please email [Javascript required] More …
Law Lords rule in favour of Procul Harum's Matthew Fisher
3 August 2009
Computer Laboratory graduate Matthew Fisher, the composer behind the organ introduction to Procol Harum's 'A Whiter Shade of Pale', has won the right to a share of the song's royalties after a three-year court battle. More …
EPSRC Fellowship awards
10 July 2009
Two members of the Computer Laboratory have been successful in the recent round of EPSRC Fellowships. More …
Main Lab web services use a pool
7 July 2009
There are now four web servers running the same configuration which provide a pool from which the services (www.cl.cam.ac.uk, www.tex.ac.uk, etc) can be served. More …
Viktor Vafeiadis receives ACM SIGPLAN outstanding doctoral dissertation award
22 June 2009
Congratulations to Viktor Vafeiadis, a former PhD student at the Computer Laboratory, who has been awarded the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN outstanding doctoral dissertation award. More …
Professor Jon Crowcroft awarded the 2009 SIGCOMM Award
1 June 2009
Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communication Systems, has been awarded the 2009 SIGCOMM Award for his pioneering contributions to multimedia and group communications. More …
Professor Ross Anderson elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
18 May 2009
Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering, is one of nine Cambridge academics to be recognised for exceptional contributions to society, with his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. More …
Brief problem affecting certain home directories
12 May 2009
There was a period of about 20 minutes starting at about 09:30 this morning when certain users (those on "homes-1") may have had problems accessing their home directories. This was traced to a "garbage-in garbage-out" problem in the script that does the routine filer housekeeping, and corrected itself next time the script ran. The cause of the original "garbage-in" is still not known, but steps have been taken to detect it in future and abort the script before any damage is done. More …
Windows7 RC1 now available locally
11 May 2009
You can now download Windows 7 from the local MSDNAA site, www.cl.cam.ac.uk/MSDN, in both 32 and 64 bit versions. Please remember that since this is a release candidate it will stop working after a set period. It is only suitable for experimental use. More …
PhD Student Yan Wu wins prestigious award
11 May 2009
Congratulations to Yan Wu who has won the prestigious 2008 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Student Abroad. More …
dns[01].cl auth NS to refuse "other" requests
7 May 2009
The authorative nameservers for cl.cam.ac.uk are moving to return REFUSED for requests for other domains rather than sending back AUTHORITY and ADDITIONAL RRs to help the client to find the requested RR. More …
new page on sec=krb5
5 May 2009
The new page nfs-sec-krb5 has some initial simple (!) examples of using NFS sec=krb5 - feedback welcome. More …
800th Anniversary Seminars at the Computer Laboratory
5 May 2009
Although a young discipline by Cambridge standards, Computer Science has had an incalculably large impact on modern life, and therefore inspires a great deal of public interest. Cambridge has been responsible for many of the significant first advances in this new field (EDSAC, the world’s first practical stored program computer, and the Computer Science Diploma, the world’s first taught course in computing, to list but two), and we are planning a series of events throughout 2009 to celebrate Cambridge's contributions to computing. More …
Tool to test ssh authorized_keys files
1 May 2009
Users can check that their ~/.ssh/authorized_keys files is
"acceptable" with
/usr/groups/admin/cmds/check-ssh-auth.pl. More …
Terminal Server changes
1 May 2009
We are about to release a new terminal server (ts01.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk) to replace the ones (waterloo & charingcross) that have been in service for the last 6 years. This runs on Windows 2008 rather than 2003 and so roaming profiles are not shared between the old and new services. In addition the version of Office on the new server is Office 2007 which has a radically different user interface to previous versions. More …
Researchers help teenagers find the answer to untidiness
28 April 2009
Cecily Morrison and Laurel Riek, both post-graduate researchers at the Computer Laboratory, demonstrated the magic of computer science to a group of students from Thomas Deacon Academy in Peterborough. More …
Web server upgraded
27 April 2009
The main lab web server was upgraded to Apache 2.2 on 27 April 2009. Please check any particular configurations (e.g. via .htaccess) that you rely on and contact webmaster@cl if you spot any problems. More …
Professor Andy Hopper makes his mark on the 800th anniversary celebrations
22 April 2009
Professor Andy Hopper, Head of Department, has made his mark on the 800th anniversary celebrations by successfully completing a Round The World flight in his Cessna. More …
Seminar to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of EDSAC
30 March 2009
As part of our Wednesday Seminar Series and the events we are holding to mark the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, there will be a special seminar at 15:00 on Wednesday 6 May to celebrate the 60th anniversary of EDSAC. The speakers will be Professor David Barron and Dr Doron Swade MBE and their presentation is entitled 'Inventing the user: EDSAC in context'. Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes will also make a contribution. More …
Larry Paulson is made a Fellow of the ACM
17 January 2009
Larry Paulson has been made a Fellow of the ACM for his contributions to theorem provers and verification techniques. More …