2018
Cambridge team wins the 2018 Northwestern Europe Regional Contest
26 November 2018
Congratulations to Team Treenity, winners of The 2018 Northwestern Europe Regional Contest. More …
Old print server being retired
7 November 2018
The old print server (version 1-6-2) will be retired in stages over the next week or so. Most users will not be affected, as they are already using our new server. The only people who need to take action are those who used Bonjour to load printers via the old server, which will be mostly Mac users. These printers will cease to work and they should be deleted and replaced with printers using the new server. At the moment a Bonjour user will typically see two entries for each printer, e.g. More …
Dr Amanda Prorok receives Best Paper Award at DARS 2018
22 October 2018
Dr Amanda Prorok has received the Best Paper Award, at DARS 2018: 14th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, for 'Redundant Robot Assignment on Graphs with Uncertain Edge Costs'. More …
Robert Sansom Professorship of Computer Science to be appointed
12 October 2018
The Department of Computer Science and Technology (formerly, the Computer Laboratory) will be appointing a new Robert Sansom Professorship of Computer Science in 2019/20. More …
Dr Robert Harle receives ACM Ubicomp 10 Year Impact Award
10 October 2018
Dr Robert Harle has been awarded the ACM Ubicomp 10 Year Impact Award at Ubicomp 2018, for his paper from 2008 entitled 'Pedestrian localisation for indoor environments'. More …
Dr Noa Zilberman named in list of 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications
2 October 2018
DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning to be appointed
9 August 2018
The Department of Computer Science and Technology is to appoint a DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning thanks to a benefaction from the world-leading AI company. More …
The Department of Computer Science and Technology and Nokia Bell Labs establish the new Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence
20 June 2018
Nokia Bell Labs is a founding partner of the new Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, to be based in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. The Centre will advance state-of-the-art mobile systems, security, new materials, and artificial intelligence (AI) to address one of the main human needs – the ability to communicate better with each other. More …
Network outage on June 2nd
4 June 2018
At 09:12 on Saturday morning, a new switch in our data centre failed. In doing so it bridged together all of its connections to the rest of the network. Since switches have multiple uplinks for resilience, this created a loop in the network. More …
Professor Jon Crowcroft awarded honorary doctorate by the Aalto University schools of technology
18 May 2018
Professor Jon Crowcroft has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Aalto University schools of technology. More …
New Ubuntu 18.04 LTS slogin-new test server
28 April 2018
A new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server is now available, available via the service name slogin-new and slogin. To ensure that the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server is used, connect to slogin. Comments to sys-admin please. More …
Cambridge Computer Laboratory hosts Inter-ACE cyber security challenge
25 April 2018
More than 130 students representing 18 of the UK’s top cybersecurity universities battled it out at the Inter-ACE 2018 cyber security challenge, hosted at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. More …
Start of change of default domain on Linux systems
9 March 2018
The department is moving from the 'AD' domain to the 'DC' domain. Linux systems use the DNS to decide which the default should be if none is given. We shall be moving certyain test hosts over to DC in the vulnereable period on Tues 20th Feb, and depending how things go, at later vulnereable or non-vulnerable periods. More …
Server Room Cooling Failure
28 February 2018
Overnight between the 27th and 28th of February the building cooling failed. This was due to the pipes on the roof freezing due to very low temperatures. Emergency actions was taken at in the middle of the night to shut down enough machines to prevent a total outage of core services. The cooler has now been inspected and declared beyond repair. This is because it had no anti-freeze in the circuit. More …
New Remote Desktop Service
26 February 2018
The previous remote access Windows machines ts01 and ts02 have now been retired. In their place is a newer version running on Windows Server 2016. The local unix command cl-rdesktop has been updated to point to this service. To login you must authenticate against the DC domain either by quoting your identifier as DC\crsid or as just crsid. Windows or MacOS users should connect to clrds.cl.cam.ac.uk to access the new servers. More …
Problem with new VPN certificate corrected
22 February 2018
Some people using the VPN service at vpn.cl.cam.ac.uk may have been experiencing difficulties since the server certficate was updated on 2018-02-13. We issued a warning applicable to Windows users, but we forgot to point out that some Linux and Android clients require a local copy of the server certificate to verify. More …
SE18 due to be cleared by 1 June 2018
15 February 2018
The deadline for moving equipment out of SE18 has been set to the 1st June 2018. The removal of the air-conditioning has been arranged to start them. More …
ely reboot in vulnerable period 28th Feb
15 February 2018
This reboot is necessary to complete the installation of some security updates. Apologies for missing the reboot on the earlier advertised date. More …
Bjarne Stroustrup named recipient of the 2018 IEEE-CS Computer Pioneer Award
8 February 2018
Bjarne Stroustrup has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society’s 2018 Computer Pioneer Award. More …
CL VPN certificate replacement
6 February 2018
The SSL certificate used to authenticate the CL-specific instance of the UIS VPN service at vpn.cl.cam.ac.uk is scheduled for routine replacement on Tuesday 13th February at about 08:00. The purpose of this certificate is to give the VPN client the assurance that it is communicating securely with the correct service. More …
Filer software update Tuesday 9th Jan 2018
4 January 2018
The next scheduled vulnerable period (2018-01-09 0700-1000) will be used to perform a software update on the NetApp filers elmer and eldo. Elmer is the main filer directly visible to users and eldo provides the backing store for virtual machines. More …
Bjarne Stroustrup to receive 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize
4 January 2018
The National Academy of Engineering has announced that Bjarne Stroustrup will receive the 2018 Charles Start Draper Prize for Engineering. The prize has been awarded 'for conceptualizing and developing the C++ programming language'. More …