2016
Professor Cecilia Mascolo reaches the finals of the 2016 Women in Networking/Communications
22 December 2016
Professor Cecilia Mascolo is a finalist on the second Networking Networking Women (N2 Women) list of “10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know”. The award focuses on women who have had a major impact in networking and/or communications. Further details can be found on the Networking Networking Women (N2 Women) site. The main goal of N2 Women is to foster connections among the under-represented women in computer networking and related research fields. N2 women allows women to connect with other women who share the same research interests, who attend the same conferences, who face the same career hurdles, and who experience the same obstacles. More …
Success for Lab teams at Northwestern Europe Regional Contest
23 November 2016
Team Me[∰]tallica (PhD student Petar Veličković along with Part IB students Marko Stanković and Dimitrije Erdeljan) were awarded a silver medal at Northwestern Europe Regional Contest (NWERC 2016). A bronze medal was awarded to Team mpttpm (Part II students Momchil Peychev and Tudor Ţiplea along with fellow Cambridge Mathematics student Paul Musca). More …
A tribute to Negar Miralaei
30 October 2016
Staff and students at the Computer Laboratory were deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of Negar Miralaei. Negar was a fourth year PhD student soon to submit her dissertation. Her supervisor Dr Timothy Jones said "Negar loved to travel, and seized the opportunities she was given to attend conferences and workshops across Europe and the United States. She also loved visiting different parts of the UK in her spare time, making her way as far as the Scottish Highlands and, more recently, Northern Ireland. She would always come back full of excitement about her trips and tell me all the amazing things she had seen. It was difficult to believe that the first time she had set foot outside Iran was when she went to Turkey to apply for her British visa to come to Cambridge. Negar had many friends, and was well liked by everyone she worked with. She was a generous, kind person and friendly to everyone she met. Within the Computer Lab we will all miss her optimism and warm smile. There's a huge hole now where she used to be.” All at the Computer Laboratory extend their heartfelt condolences to Negar's family and friends at this sad time. More …
Dr Mateja Jamnik to receive a Royal Society 2016 Athena award.
19 October 2016
Dr Mateja Jamnik will receive a Royal Society 2016 Athena award in a ceremony at the Royal Society’s annual diversity conference on 31 October 2016. More …
Postgraduate Open Day
11 October 2016
The University of Cambridge is proud to be hosting its first Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 2 November 2016. More …
Microsoft Imagine Username Changes
10 October 2016
The usernames on the Microsoft Imagine site (formerly known as Dreamspark and before than as MSDNAA) have been changed to be of the form [Javascript required] for all users. The effect of this change will be that you receive notice of your new account details and the old one will no longer be available. If this causes any difficulties for you please contact [Javascript required]. More …
Website upgrade Tuesday 4th October
30 September 2016
On the morning of Tuesday, 4th October 2016 we will upgrade the web server software behind the main Lab web site. More …
Postgraduate Open Day - 2 November 2016
22 September 2016
The University of Cambridge is proud to be hosting its first Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 2 November 2016. More …
Dr Andy Harter awarded prestigious Faraday Medal
20 September 2016
Visiting Industrial Fellow Dr Andy Harter has been awarded the Faraday Medal, the most prestigious award of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The Faraday Medal dates back to 1922, and is awarded for notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering and for conspicuous service rendered to the profession. Dr Harter is CEO of RealVNC which he founded in 2002. More …
Dropbox
15 September 2016
The UIS have recently made available reduced cost access to Business Dropbox available via normal purchasing means. More …
Advait Sarkar receives highly commended award at VL/HCC 2016
12 September 2016
Advait Sarkar has received a highly commended award at the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) for his paper ‘Visual discovery and model-driven explanation of time series patterns’. The paper is joint work with Alan Blackwell, Mateja Jamnik and Martin Spott. More …
Raspberry Pi has sold 10 million computers
8 September 2016
Raspberry Pi has announced that, over the last four and a half years, ten million computers have been sold. More …
Terminal Server access now requires VPN
29 August 2016
Following a number of brute force password attacks against our Windows Terminal Server hosts these have now been restricted to only accept connections from clients within the University network. If you need to access them from outside that network then first connect using a VPN. More …
Professor Andy Hopper named a Royal Society Premier Medallist
19 July 2016
Professor Andy Hopper CBE FREng FRS has been awarded The Bakerian Medal and Lecture 2017 for his outstanding research in computer technology, with significant economic impacts, in particular his work in computer networking and sentient computing systems with an aim to providing sustainability. More …
ssh-dss .dsa user ssh host keys to slogin-serv
18 July 2016
The new Ubuntu 16.04 slogin-serv services do not
accept the legacy ssh-dss (DSA) public key algorithm. Any users
having problems with their user ssh keys should try connecting to
slogin-old using the -v switch to check
which key is used. If it is .dsa, please generate a new
key and add it to .ssh/authorized_keys, check that it
works on slogin-serv, then remove the old .dsa key and
its .ssh/authorized_keys entry. Remember never to copy
the private key - it should only ever remain where it is generated. More …
Royal Society publishes new report on cybersecurity research
13 July 2016
The Royal Society has published a new report on cybersecurity research. More …
slogin server partial upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04
7 July 2016
Subsequent to the move of slogin-serv to Ubuntu 14.04, another server has been added, which runs Ubuntu 16.04, accessible as slogin-new.cl.cam.ac.uk, which has been in service for a while now without any reported problems. It is now being added to the slogin-serv.cl.cam.ac.uk pool, so users may get Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04. The hope is that it should not matter, and when we are confident that 16.04 is suitable, the pool will move to being just 16.04. If you find something which requires 14.04, please connect to slogin-old.cl.cam.ac.uk and email the details to sys-admin More …
Professor Andy Hopper receives the ACM Sigmobile Test-of-Time Award
29 June 2016
Professor Andy Hopper has received the ACM Sigmobile Test-of-Time award for "The active badge location system." The paper is joint work with Roy Want, Veronica Falcao and Jonathan Gibbons. The SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time awards recognize papers that have had a sustained and significant impact in the SIGMOBILE community over at least a decade. The award was presented to Professor Andy Hopper at ACM MobiSys on June 29th, in Singapore. More …
Mariana Marasoiu receives honourable mention at EuroVis 2016
21 June 2016
Mariana Marasoiu has received an honourable mention at EuroVis 2016 for 'Clarifying Hypotheses by Sketching Data'. More …
Video available of 2016 Wheeler Lecture
14 June 2016
The video of this year's Wheeler Lecture is now available. If you were unable to attend the lecture, or you wish to hear it again, then we hope you will find this useful. The video and audio are also available to download from the Streaming Media Service. More …
International Summer School on Metaprogramming
2 June 2016
Jeremy Yallop and Ohad Kammar have organised an International Summer School on Metaprogramming. More …
new slogin-new - consider using slogin-serv
22 May 2016
The service name 'slogin-new.cl.cam.ac.uk' is used for
the newest slogin pilot or service for the department (see Time Sharing Syetsms). A new system is in
development, so anyone wanting to use the previous 'new' server
sandy should use
slogin-serv.cl.cam.ac.uk (using ssh user keys) or
sandy (using Kereberos). TGT server users should check
their configuration files. More …
Jingyun Zhang wins CAPE Acorn Post-graduate Research Award 2016
18 May 2016
PhD student Jingyun Zhang has won a CAPE Acorn Post-graduate Research Award 2016 for a joint project with Lu Bai. More …
Wheeler Lecture 2016
26 April 2016
The Wheeler lecture for 2016 will be given by Dr. Andrew Herbert on Wednesday 25th May. The programme is now available, and registration is open if you wish to attend. More …
University of Cambridge wins both individual and team gold at national cybersecurity competition
26 April 2016
Dr Frank Stajano launched and hosted the Inter-ACE Cyberchallenge, a hacking competition between the country’s GCHQ-recognized Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). More …
Professor John Daugman elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors
21 April 2016
Professor John Daugman has been elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) at a ceremony in Washington DC. More …
Dr Markus Kuhn receives Bright Ideas Award
21 April 2016
Dr Markus Kuhn received a Bright Ideas Award in a ceremony at the University Information Service (UIS) on April 7th 2016. More …
Erroll Wood receives ACM Emerging Investigator Award
17 March 2016
Erroll Wood has received the Emerging Investigator Award at the ACM SIGGraph Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications for his paper 'Learning an appearance-based gaze estimator from one million synthesised images'. The paper is joint work with Tadas Baltrusaitis, Louis-Philippe Morency, Peter Robinson and Andreas Bulling. More …
Robert Harle awarded Pilkington Prize
11 February 2016
Dr Robert Harle has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching. More …
Ramsey Faragher and Robert Harle receive presitigious Dr Samuel M Burka Award
4 February 2016
The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its Dr Samuel M Burka Award to Dr Ramsey M Faragher and Dr Robert K Harle for their paper “Towards an Efficient, Intelligent Opportunistic Smartphone Indoor Positioning System” published in the Spring 2015 issue of NAVIGATION, Journal of The Institute of Navigation, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp.55-72. More …
SwiftKey, Cambridge Ring 2015 Hall of Fame winner, acquired by Microsoft
3 February 2016
SwiftKey, the winner of the Cambridge Ring Hall of Fame Company of the Year Award 2015, has been acquired by Microsoft for $250m. More …
Professor Simon Moore receives "10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper" award
26 January 2016
A research paper by Robert Mullins, Andrew West and Simon Moore was selected as the "10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper" in the 2016 Asia & South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC). The award for the paper, “The design and implementation of a low-latency on-chip network”, was presented to Professor Simon Moore at the opening ceremony of ASP-DAC’16 on January 25th, in Macao. More …
Computer Lab start-up Unikernel Systems acquired by Docker Inc
21 January 2016
Unikernel Systems, co-founded by Computer Laboratory staff and postdoctoral researchers, has been acquired by San Francisco based Docker Inc. More …