2013
Wordpress upgraded to 3.8
23 December 2013
The instance of wordpress used for http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/news/ has been upgraded to 3.8. Please report any problems to sys-admin. More …
Cambridge students excel at NWERC
1 December 2013
Congratulations to the three Cambridge teams who excelled at the Northwestern European Regional Contest 2013 (NWERC). More …
DNSSEC for cl.cam.ac.uk
15 November 2013
On Monday 18th November 2013 we plan to add a DS RR for cl.cam.ac.uk to the cam.ac.uk zone. This will mean that resolvers using DNSSEC will check our information, and ignore it if the information does not have a valid signature. Apart from making our information more secure, it also has the ability to take cl.cam.ac.uk out of the DNS if something goes wrong. Please report any DNS problems with cl.cam.ac.uk More …
Networks and Operating Systems Group calls for applicatins for METRICS studentships
29 October 2013
The Computer Laboratory's Networks and Operating Systems Group calls for applications for the Marie Curie ITN METRICS studentships. More …
Filer running slowly
18 September 2013
The filer is running slowly at the moment. This is because we're copying the entire filesystem to the replacement machine. The ultimate goal is to make everything faster, but in the short term we have to suffer some pain. More …
Raspberry Pi wins INDEX 2013 award
9 September 2013
Congratulations to Raspberry Pi, which was been awarded an INDEX 2013 Award in the Play and Learning category. More …
RealVNC wins most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation
18 July 2013
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. More …
Eben Upton receives prestigious Silver Medal
18 July 2013
Eben Upton, co-founder of the Rapsberry Pi Foundation, is one of four entrepreneurs to receive a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal. More …
Jon Crowcroft receives 2014 IEEE Internet Award
17 July 2013
Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications Systems, has been awarded the 2014 IEEE Internet Award. More …
Glynn Winskel awarded LICS Test of Time award
2 July 2013
Glynn Winskel, Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded the LICS (Logic and Computer Science) Test of Time award for his paper with Andre Joyal and Mogens Nielsen on ''Bisimulation from Open Maps'' which appeared in LICS 1993 - see http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/archive/test-of-time-award.html More …
Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes born this day 100 years ago
26 June 2013
Today is the centenary of the birth of Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes, computer pioneer and past head of the Computer Laboratory. More …
PhD student awarded Google scholarship
23 June 2013
PhD student Toby Moncaster has been awarded a Google Scholarship for Students with Disabilities. More …
Cambridge formally recognised as centre of excellence for cybsersecurity research
13 June 2013
The University of Cambridge has been recognized as an "Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research” (ACE-CSR) by the UK Government. More …
John Daugman inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame
3 June 2013
John Daugman, Professor of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, has been inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame. More …
Jean Bacon awarded honorary doctorate
30 May 2013
Jean Bacon, Professor of Distributed Systems, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Open University. More …
Two new lectureships announced
24 May 2013
The Computer Laboratory is pleased to announce that Dr Robert Watson and Dr Thomas Sauerwald have been appointed to Lectureships. More …
Computer Lab spin-out Cronto acquired
21 May 2013
Computer Lab spin-out Cronto, a provider of secure visual transaction authentication solutions for online banking, has been acquired by VASCO Data Security International, Inc. More …
Marwa Mahmoud wins best paper award at IEEE Face and Gesture Conference
2 May 2013
Marwa Mahmoud has won the best paper award at IEEE Face and Gesture Conference in Shanghai. More …
Computer Laboratory celebrates the first 75 years
30 April 2013
Around 300 graduates and friends of the Computer Laboratory converged on the William Gates Building to celebrate its first 75 years. More …
Tadas Baltrušaitis wins Cambridge Ring Publication of the Year award
29 April 2013
Tadas Baltrušaitis, Peter Robinson and Louis-Philippe Morency have won the Publication of the Year award at the Cambridge Ring's annual dinner for their paper on "3D Constrained local model for rigid and non-rigid facial tracking" presented at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in June 2012. The research integrated depth information with web-cam pictures to provide improved tracking of facial features. Tadas Baltrušaitis is supervised by Peter Robinson and the work was carried out in collaboration with Louis-Philippe Morency at the University of Southern California. See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/rainbow/projects/clmz/ for details. More …
Computer Lab students win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships
26 April 2013
Marwa Mahmoud and Steven Marsh, students at the Computer Laboratory, were awarded two of the three Qualcomm UK Innovation Fellowships in competition with other departments in Cambridge and at Imperial College. The Computer Laboratory winners were Marwa Mahmoud (supervised by Peter Robinson) and Steven Marsh (supervised by Simon Moore). The third winner was Joan Alabort-i-Medina from Imperial College. More …
Poster competition winners announced at 75th anniversary celebrations
25 April 2013
The Computer Laboratory celebrated its 75th anniversary on 24th April, at which time the winners of the associated poster competition were announced. More …
Lab PhD student wins Best Student Paper Award at EuroSys 2013
25 April 2013
Malte Schwarzkopf has received the Best Student Paper Award at EuroSys 2013. More …
RealVNC wins the triple
23 April 2013
RealVNC, the company founded by Computer Laboratory’s Professor Andy Hopper and Andy Harter together with Lily Bacon and other colleagues from the University has been singled out with its third Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in as many years, a remarkable accomplishment for the Cambridge-based provider of VNC® software. More …
Computer Lab spin-out helps protect online banking customers
18 April 2013
Computer Lab spin-out, Cronto, is helping to protect online banking customers from the threat of online banking fraud. More …
Purge of legacy automount information
17 April 2013
It is believed that the last systems using the old "indirect" autofs LDAP tables have been shut down or moved to use "direct" filer mounts, so the information is no longer included in the LDAP data. If anyone observes failure of the automount system (rather than missing krb5 tickets) please report the machine and the directory to sys-admin. More …
Lab PhD wins Mark Weiser Best Paper Award
21 March 2013
Kiran Rachuri has received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2013 (PerCom 2013). More …
Andy Hopper welcomes Business Secretary, Dr Vince Cable, to the Computer Laboratory
18 March 2013
Professor Andy Hopper welcomed Business Secretary, Dr Vince Cable, to the Computer Laboratory today. Dr Cable, in Cambridge to launch Cambridge Business Week, visited the University's Computer Laboratory which, this year, celebrates its 75th anniversary. The Computer Laboratory has been instrumental in making Cambridge the premier cluster in the UK - over 200 companies have been founded by Lab graduates and staff. More …
The January 2013 edition of 'The Ring' is out!
29 January 2013
The January edition of the journal of the Computer Laboratory's graduate association, The Ring, is now out. More …
The Computer Laboratory gets ready to celebrate 75 years
11 January 2013
2013 is a special year for the Computer Laboratory. More …