2015
Thomas Sauerwald awarded prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant
10 November 2015
Dr Thomas Sauerwald, University Lecturer in Computer Science, has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. His funded project titled "Dynamics of Multiple, Interacting and Concurrent Markov Chains" will run from 2016-2021, and aims to explore new algorithms based on multiple random walks that are able to cope with massive and complex data sets. More …
Andra Adams named a winner of UK ICT Pioneers 2015
7 November 2015
PhD student, Andra Adams, has been named the winner of the UK ICT Pioneers 2015 in the category 'Transforming Society'. More …
Mark Batty wins 2015 BCS Distinguished Dissertation Competition
27 October 2015
Mark Batty has been named the winner of the 2015 CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation Competition. The Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction with BCS and BCS Academy of Computing, annually selects for publication the best British PhD/DPhil dissertations in computer science. More …
Cambridge triumphs at UKIEPC 2015
26 October 2015
Cambridge teams triumphed at The UK/IE Programming Contest (UKIEPC) 2015. Not only did a team from the University come first, but Cambridge teams filled ten slots in the top twenty. More …
Lab researchers win best paper award at ACM ICN 2015
5 October 2015
Lab researchers Liang Wang, Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Prof. Jon Crowcroft have won the best paper award at ACM ICN 2015. More …
Computer Laboratory receives prestigious Athena SWAN award
1 October 2015
The Computer Laboratory has received a prestigious bronze Athena SWAN award, the charter that recognises commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education. More …
Ross Anderson named winner of 2015 SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation award
25 September 2015
Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering, has been named the winner of the 2015 SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation award. More …
Professor John Daugman elected to Academy Fellowship
22 September 2015
John Daugman OBE FREng, Professor of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his outstanding contribution to engineering. More …
RA Sam Aaron teaches BBC DJ to compose music using Sonic Pi
7 September 2015
Lab Research Associate Sam Aaron can often be found in school classrooms teaching children to create music by writing code using Sonic Pi. However, recently he welcomed a slightly older pupil, BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra DJ MistJam. The pair used Sonic Pi to compose a piece, inspired by Bizet's 'Carmen'. More …
Oliver Chick wins APSys15 best paper award
2 September 2015
PhD student Oliver Chick has received the Best Paper Award at APSys15. More …
Lab PhD student wins ACM Student Research Competition at SIGCOMM 2015
19 August 2015
First year PhD student Heidi Howard has won the ACM Student Research Competition at SIGCOMM 2015 for 'Coracle: Evaluating consensus at the internet edge.' More …
TexLive 2015 now available on the filer
25 June 2015
The latest version of TeXLive is now available on the filer in /usr/groups/texlive. Using the standard TeXLive naming convention, it is in the directory 2015. More …
Mark Batty receives John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award
25 June 2015
Mark Batty has received the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award. More …
EPSRC funds Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre
17 June 2015
Thanks to an EPSRC grant, the Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre will be operational from October 1st 2015. More …
Lab PhD awarded Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
4 June 2015
Congratulations to Luana Bulat who has been awarded a Google Anita Borg Scholarship. More …
Disruption to Xen clients
28 May 2015
Our Xen system was disrupted last night. It is believed to be mostly fixed, but users should check their systems. A rogue process caused problems with the Lab routing, which caused the filer to be inaccessible, causing some domUs to deem their file systems broken. It is thought that most effected systems have been restarted, but there may still be problems which need fixing. Please email sys-admin if any help is needed. More …
Andrew W Moore receives ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award 2015
28 May 2015
Andrew W Moore has received the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award 2015 for "Internet Traffic Classification Using Bayesian Analysis Techniques". More …
Lab PhD wins NSDI'15 Best Paper Award
5 May 2015
Matthew P Grosvenor has received the Best Paper Award at NSDI'15. More …
Cambridge Ring member Dr Hermann Hauser awarded an honorary knighthood
23 April 2015
Cambridge Ring member Dr Hermann Hauser CBE, FRS, FREng has been awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of his services to engineering and industry. More …
Professor Ross Anderson named as BCS Lovelace Medal Winner 2015
16 April 2015
Ross Anderson FRS FREng, Professor of Security Engineering, has been named as the recipient of the 2015 BCS Lovelace Medal awarded by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. More …
Cambridge team wins ‘Oxford Instruments Special Award’ at iCAN UK 2015
23 March 2015
Congratulations to the Computer Laboratory's Ran Guan and Bob Fang who, as part of team 'GameBob' won the Oxford Instruments Special Award at iCAN UK 2015. More …
DHCP servers upgraded
9 March 2015
The main Lab DHCP servers have been replaced. This should not have changed things for clients, so if there are any problems, please report them to sys-admin. More …
2015 Wheeler Lecture
9 March 2015
The annual Wheeler Lecture will be given on Tuesday 26th May of this year. Further information is available, and registration is now open. More …
Another power glitch 2015-03-03 03:06:24
3 March 2015
This time it killed a switch ad (at least) two discs. More …
West Cambridge power problem 2015/02/23
24 February 2015
There was a power problem on the West Cambridge site effecting some of our systems in the WGB and some in the UIS at around 9PM on Mon 23 Feb. Please report any anomalies to sys-admin. More …
slogin server upgrade
21 February 2015
As there have been no reports of problems with the testing slogin server we plan to swap the DNS pointer over the weekend spanning the end of February and the start of March at which point the old instances will be available for a short time as slogin-old. More …
Professor Anuj Dawar to receive Hind Rattan Award 2015
6 January 2015
Anuj Dawar, Professor of Logic and Algorithms has been awarded a prestigious Hind Rattan Award for outstanding services, achievements and contributions in his field of research. More …