2020
Data Trusts Initiative offers grants for research bridging theory to practice
17 December 2020
Do you have an idea about the action needed to design real-world data trusts? The Data Trusts Initiative – a new initiative from this Department and collaborators at Birmingham University – has launched its research programme, offering funding for research projects that help bridge the gap between discussions about how data trusts could work and their practical application. More …
Students take the crown in global cybersecurity contest
15 December 2020
Congratulations to the undergraduate and MPhil students of this Department who took the crown in an international cyber security competition last week. More …
January event to showcase healthcare research
14 December 2020
A Healthcare Research Showcase on 29 January 2021 will highlight some of the healthcare projects we're undertaking – including using body sound recordings to train computer models to recognise Covid-19, and employing AI techniques in the quest to improve cancer treatment. More …
Harnessing computing to achieve net zero
3 December 2020
"There are many routes to net zero, but digital technology has a central role to play, no matter what sector or country you look at," says our own Professor Andy Hopper at the start of the Royal Society's new report 'Digital Technology and the Planet'. More …
The ethical hacking competition inspiring future cyber-defenders
30 November 2020
Inspired by a cyber security competition that was co-founded and held here, a worldwide 'ethical hacking' contest takes place this Sunday for competitors who – the organisers hope – will fill a vital skills gap in computer security. More …
Free 'Data for Science' training course for Cambridge researchers
27 November 2020
Accelerate-Spark 'Data for Science' Residency Programme More …
New Fellows will help Accelerate Discovery
18 November 2020
Predicting mental health conditions like schizophrenia; accelerating the development of new materials; investigating the building blocks of living systems; and advancing our understanding of the fundamental dynamics of the Universe. Four new Early Career Fellows who have just joined this Department's Accelerate Programme will be using artificial intelligence to advance their research in these fields – and equipping young researchers across the University with the skills to use it in theirs. More …
Cambridge Ring 'Hall of Fame' Awards recognise our staff, students and alumni
11 November 2020
A computer science researcher helping deploy technology to make a difference in East Africa; a platform that helps companies easily build web apps entirely in Python; research that alerted Apple and Google to a key privacy vulnerability in their smartphones; and a company whose technology makes it simple to connect any display to any computer: these are the winners of our Hall of Fame Awards 2020. More …
'Honour among thieves': the evolution of a cybercrime market
5 November 2020
Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre here will today reveal what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took place in an underground cybercrime forum over the last two years. More …
SRI and Cambridge release CHERI software stack for Arm Morello
29 October 2020
The CHERI architecture co-developed by researchers here to protect computer systems from widely-exploited security vulnerabilities takes a major step forward today with the release of software and the first industrial simulator for it. More …
New Data Trusts Initiative will spearhead community-focused data governance
21 October 2020
A new initiative from this Department will build a community of researchers and social entrepreneurs developing fresh approaches to data governance challenges. More …
Future Leaders Fellowship for 3D digital reality researcher
15 October 2020
It’s your weekly meeting with your team and it’s taking place virtually. At the moment, that means looking at a row of miniaturised faces on the laptop screen in front of you. But how would it be if you could put on a pair of virtual reality glasses instead and – thanks to computer-generated 3D models – see all your team-mates apparently sitting in your office alongside you? More …
Using technology to address global challenges
1 October 2020
A University research initiative that addresses challenges in developing countries formally becomes part of this Department today (1 October 2020). More …
Connecting analog microphones to headset sockets
30 September 2020
Connecting USB microphones to a laptop or desktop machine is easy. But analog microphones, which are intended for connection to a camera, voice recorder or amplifier can be more complex, unless your computer has a dedicated microphone socket or you have a USB audio interface. More …
Mobile computing 'rockstar' talks revolution
21 September 2020
Nic Lane, named as SIGMOBILE's Rockstar 2020 for his outstanding contributions to mobile computing, will give the keynote talk 'What is Next for the Efficient Machine Learning Revolution?' at the MobiCom 2020 conference this week. More …
Welcome to the Virtual Open Days September 2020
16 September 2020
We are taking part in the University of Cambridge Virtual Open Days on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 September, where prospective applicants can find out what it’s like to study Computer Science here. More …
OCaml Labs breakthrough - good things come to those who wait
16 September 2020
A group of systems researchers here, along with their industrial and academic collaborators, are celebrating receiving a prestigious award for a breakthrough that took them six years to achieve. More …
Monitoring body sounds 'in the wild' wins student Best Paper award
15 September 2020
Body sounds are an excellent source of information for understanding the state of the human body and monitoring them with digital devices is a technique that is being increasingly explored. But there are many challenges in deploying such devices effectively. More …
Student-Run Computing Facility seeks your help
7 September 2020
The Cambridge University Student-Run Computing Facility (SRCF) is trying to raise funds for a new updated cluster of machines and also taking hardware donations for its free video conferencing service. Could you help them? More …
Some thoughts on slide-driven presentations
4 September 2020
Suppose you created your lecture video directly from Powerpoint? More …
'Robot trainer' receives ERC Starting Grant to study transport systems of the future
3 September 2020
Dr Amanda Prorok, an Assistant Professor and University Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems here, has today been awarded a coveted European Research Council Starting Grant. More …
Private-eye-turned-researcher receives ERC Starting Grant to study cybercrime
3 September 2020
Dr Alice Hutchings, a researcher into cybercrime and a University Lecturer on computer security, has today (3 Sept 2020) been awarded a coveted European Research Council Starting Grant. More …
Two new videos about cameras
29 August 2020
A couple of tutorials giving a bit more information about cameras. More …
An update on the recording rooms
24 August 2020
Th recording rooms are nearly ready for use. What might you find in them now? More …
Hosting the Sutton Trust Summer School
18 August 2020
We are sorry the students can't be here in person - as they would normally be. But we're still very happy to be running the Sutton Trust / University of Cambridge Computer Science Summer School this week. More …
Schmidt Data for Science Course scores a hit
29 July 2020
Our first-ever Schmidt Data for Science Residency Programme is underway – and is being enthusiastically received by the 27 PhDs and postdocs selected to participate. More …
Why I thought I wasn't smart enough for Computer Science...
28 July 2020
She was conditioned by a tutor to believe that "girls aren't smart enough for Computer Science". But two years into her degree here, Vasundhara Agarwal now knows that's just not true. More …
Your phone 'could tell us if you have coronavirus'
27 July 2020
A mobile phone app that collects recordings of its users coughing and breathing has been used by researchers here successfully to predict whether people have coronavirus. More …
DeepMind to support a further five scholarships for Cambridge students from backgrounds under-represented in Computer Science
18 July 2020
DeepMind is to support a further five scholarships for Cambridge students from backgrounds under-represented in Computer Science. More …
Aaron is an Apple Scholar
11 July 2020
Congratulations to PhD student Yiren 'Aaron' Zhao. He has just been named as an Apple Scholar in a programme created by Apple to recognise emerging leaders among computer science and engineering postgraduates. More …
Schmidt Data for Science Residency Programme
30 June 2020
We are offering PhDs and postdocs in science disciplines across Cambridge a free 'Data for Science' training course this summer. Aimed at helping participants to apply data analysis to their own datasets and problems, the course runs over five weeks, starting on 20th July. More …
Promotions for five Department members
24 June 2020
Five members of this department have been promoted - and as a result, we have two new Readers and three new Professors here. More …
New programme to accelerate AI research capability at Cambridge
22 June 2020
A new initiative at Cambridge will equip young researchers outside computer science with the skills they need to use machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to power their research. More …
Helping make future technologies more secure
15 June 2020
Two research teams here are among the recipients of a £10 million government investment in 'Digital Security by Design', a programme aiming to help the tech infrastructure of UK organisations and digital devices be more resilient to cyber attacks. More …
We’re old hands at new-style teaching
8 June 2020
The headline that large lectures will be delivered online next year, rather than in person, has raised some concerns. More …
Lockdown 'helps fuel rise in cybercrime'
2 June 2020
Take extra care before buying facemasks or testing kits online, or responding to texts apparently sent to you by the UK government or the NHS. Because while lockdown has helped reduce the spread of the coronavirus, it is also helping fuel a rise in cybercrime. More …
Datacentre cooling works
26 May 2020
An upgrade to the cooling capacity of the department's datacentre (GN09) will take place starting on 1st June 2020, for two weeks. More …
The Wheeler Lecture 2020: The Future of Microprocessors
20 May 2020
The annual Wheeler Lecture looked at the history of microprocessors, how we got to where we are now, and what constraints there are on the future. As predicted, there were laws, graphs and references to Star Wars... More …
Denial-of-service attacks research wins 'Test of Time' award
18 May 2020
A researcher here was presented with an award today for work that he and colleagues conducted more than 20 years ago. More …
OWLS seminars Take Flight
14 May 2020
When coronavirus first saw researchers working from home and unable to meet for the normal weekly seminars "that are the lifeblood of research groups", new Research Fellow Jamie Vicary (pictured above, top right) thought something should be done. More …
How Isaac is helping students learn Computer Science from home
4 May 2020
A Computer Science learning platform developed by experts from this department and the Raspberry Pi Foundation has just added new materials to provide extra support for those learning or teaching A Level Computer Science from home. More …
svr-ssh-0 now Ubuntu 20.04 - please try it if you use slogin-serv
3 May 2020
slogin-serv.cl.cam.ac.uk is provided by three servers, mostly by "ely". One of the two alternatives, svr-ssh-0.cl.cam.ac.uk, has been upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04. If you routinely use slogin-serv, please try using svr-ssh-0 and email sys-admin if tere any problems. Thanks. More …
The essential travel assistant that could guide us out of lockdown
28 April 2020
Image: You. Smart. Thing. Covid-19 Essential Travel Assistant. More …
Guidance on using Zoom
24 April 2020
UIS has now published guidance on how to use Zoom securely for online videoconferencing. More …
Alumni commended for their contributions to computer science
20 April 2020
Two alumni of this department have been highly commended by the judges of a prestigious academic award for their research contributions to computer science. More …
Plan AI, because there is no planet B
17 April 2020
To mark Earth Day on Wednesday 22 April, our colleague Emily Shuckburgh gave the first virtual Turing Lecture on sustainability and the climate crisis. More …
One Stop Epidemy Resource
16 April 2020
An international team of developers, including a visiting student in this Department, has created an open-source online hospital resource management system of benefit to both doctors and families. More …
Using our skills to help others
7 April 2020
“We are privileged to have so much in Cambridge – and we should be
using it to help others.”
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Helping Africa from afar
7 April 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has cut short one researcher’s planned sabbatical year developing AI in sub-Saharan Africa. More …
New app collects the sounds of COVID-19
6 April 2020
Researchers here have led the development of a new app that will collect the sounds made by those suffering from the coronavirus. More …
Enlisting smartphone data in the fight against coronavirus
2 April 2020
A smartphone app to map epidemics that was developed in
this department a decade ago is seeing a resurgence of interest
because of the COVID-19 outbreak
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Advice on moving conferences from the real to the virtual world
2 April 2020
A faculty member here is part of a taskforce advising conference
organisers on how to move their events from the real to the virtual
world
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Modelling demand for intensive care beds
1 April 2020
NHS regions in England are using a computer model co-developed by
this department to help them predict the surge in demand for intensive
care beds caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Launch of Microsoft Teams
19 March 2020
Microsoft Teams is now live. It is the recommended and supported online collaboration tool for the University. Teams is integrated with other Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) products. More …
Keep us in the loop!
11 February 2020
In the past, we have only kept a list of email addresses for Ring members, and we are trying to learn more about you so we can be more useful and keep you more connected! Having names and dates also helps us to avoid things like duplicate email addresses. If you are happy for us to have your details, can you please complete this form. More …
The Ring Newsletter
10 February 2020
The Ring is the journal of the Cambridge Ring, the graduate association of the Department of Computer Science and Technology. You can read the latest edition of The Ring here and you can find previous versions on the website. More …
Ring Dinner and Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony
10 February 2020
The Cambridge Ring dinner and Hall of Fame Awards ceremony will be held at Queens’ College on Thursday 2nd April 2020. The winners will be announced by Professor Ann Copestake, and the awards will be presented by our guest speaker. More …
Dr Neel Krishnaswami wins a Distinguished Paper Award
23 January 2020
Together with Michael Arntzenius (of the University of Birmingham), Dr Neel Krishnaswami has received a Distinguished Paper Award for their research paper at POPL 2020. More …