2021
Student cyclist's frustration over wind noise inspires award-winning research
14 December 2021
Undergraduate student Jack Parkinson would often jump on his bike to get from his college to lectures here in the Department. But it frustrated him that wind noise made it difficult for him to listen to music, or answer phone calls, while he was cycling. So he decided to do something about it. For his third-year research project, he set about exploring existing ways of removing wind noise from a single microphone to see if he could improve on them. More …
The climate crisis: 'change is possible'
7 December 2021
"We are already seeing the impacts of climate change around the world today, in terms of extreme weather events, wildfires, floods, melting polar ice," says climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh, our Professor of Environmental Data Science. "These impacts will only increase if we don’t address climate change today. And that will result in a loss of human society and the natural world as we know it." More …
Support for student using machine learning to understand forest ecosystems
24 November 2021
An award to a PhD student here will help her work with local communities as she uses machine learning techniques to monitor the health, biodiversity and deforestation of Ghanaian forests. More …
DeepMind Scholarships for AI-related learning
23 November 2021
DeepMind Cambridge Scholarships are available for postgraduate courses in computer science, AI and machine learning for students starting in the 2022 academic year. More …
New Centre links computer and conservation scientists to support reforestation efforts
9 November 2021
A new Centre here will bring together computer scientists and conservation scientists to build a trusted marketplace for carbon credits and support global reforestation efforts. More …
AI for science: frontiers, opportunities and challenges
2 November 2021
How can we harness the potential of AI to accelerate scientific discovery? The frontiers, opportunities and challenges of doing so will be discussed on Friday 19th November at a symposium hosted by Neil Lawrence, Deepmind Professor of Machine Learning here. More …
Accelerate Programme funds PhD studentships in Computer Science
25 October 2021
A programme here promoting the use of machine learning to tackle major scientific challenges is offering funding for PhD students starting next autumn. More …
The Internet of Stings
21 October 2021
What happens to all the sensitive personal information our smart devices collect from us? Where does the data picked up by our smart watches, speakers and TVs go, who has access to it and how is it used? More …
The computer scientist who helped design the world’s fastest supercomputer
20 October 2021
Dr Bo Eyole is a Principal Research Engineer at Arm. He studied for his PhD here in this Department and then stayed on as a postdoctoral researcher, thanks to a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, before moving to Arm. More …
Success for our students in two international competitions
6 October 2021
Students from this Department have been successful in two prestigious contests - the International Collegiate Programming Competition World Finals, and the Country-2-Country Capture The Flag cybersecurity competition. More …
The Antiques Code Show
29 September 2021
In 1949 EDSAC, the first computer built in Cambridge, took up an entire room and needed a committee of experts to programme it. Today, the latest – the Raspberry Pi – sits in a hand and is being used to help Primary School children learn to code. More …
Students win award for pilot in-ear personal navigation device
27 September 2021
A prototype personal navigation device we could wear in our ears, created by two students here, has just won an award at an international conference. More …
Mobile phone system that can monitor our happiness wins 10-year impact award
24 September 2021
Developing smartphone technology that can sense our emotions and tell if we are happy or sad has just won researchers here a 10-Year Impact Award. More …
Filer maintenance: Tues 28 Sep (rescheduled)
20 September 2021
Update: this work has been rescheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday 28th September due to contractor unavailability. More …
Twitter to fund four Scholarships in Machine Learning
28 July 2021
A gift from Twitter will fund four Scholarships in Machine Learning (ML) here in the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology. More …
Seeking Data Trusts Pioneers
28 July 2021
New uses of data can improve our health, wealth and wellbeing, but careful stewardship is needed to align these aspirations with concerns about the vulnerabilities that data use can bring, for individuals, communities and society. In pursuit of this goal, policymakers and practitioners have been investigating the role that data trusts can play in growing the digital economy while empowering citizens to influence the terms of data use. More …
Introducing the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre
22 July 2021
We are pleased to announce the creation of a new Computing Education Research Centre here in the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology. More …
ssh users: upgrade of ely / slogin-serv system
21 July 2021
The TSS 'ely', the main machine in the slogin-serv.cl.cam.ac.uk ssh service, is being upgraded as there is a security vulnerability in its kernel. If things don't work, please try slogin-new in place of ely. More …
Alumnus commended for his contributions to computer science
19 July 2021
For the second year running, the judges of a prestigious academic award have commended a former student here for their research contributions to computer science. More …
#StateSchoolProud to be here
7 July 2021
"Don’t worry that you might not fit in. When you get here, you will naturally find other people like you." So says ex-comprehensive school pupil Tanya Morris who is now a Computer Science undergraduate here. More …
Welcome to the Virtual Open Days July 2021
5 July 2021
We are taking part in the University of Cambridge Virtual Open Days from 5-18 July, offering prospective applicants opportunities to find out what it’s like to study Computer Science here. More …
Award celebrates the medieval craft helping power modern-day computers
29 June 2021
A Livery Company rooted in the medieval craft of producing gold wire for embroidering tapestries and robes yesterday presented student Jonáš Fiala with an award celebrating its modern day use in computer hardware. More …
Professor's contributions to computer technology recognised with knighthood
14 June 2021
Many congratulations to Professor Andy Hopper, our colleague of many years and a former Head of Department, whose work was recognised with a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours. More …
Lessons for today from The Class of 1971
9 June 2021
Fifty years ago this month, the first ever Computer Science undergraduates in Cambridge sat their finals before going out to face an uncertain future. And what they went on to do should offer hope to this year’s finalists. More …
Undergraduates win Neurodiversity Hackathon
25 May 2021
Congratulations to first-year undergraduates Marc Harvey-Hill, Yash Shah, Nicole Choong and Matthew Elliot who teamed up to take part in a Hackathon on 'Embracing Neurodiversity' – and won. More …
How many robots does it take to screw in a lightbulb? – The Wheeler Lecture 2021
17 May 2021
'How many robots does it take to screw in a lightbulb?' No, it was not a joke. It was the start of The Wheeler Lecture 2021 on 'Reimagining Robots'. More …
Can Federated Learning save the world?
10 May 2021
Training the artificial intelligence models that underpin web search engines, power smart assistants and enable driverless cars, consumes megawatts of energy and generates worrying carbon dioxide emissions. But as members of this Department will tell an international research summit tomorrow, 11 May, new ways of training these models are proven to be greener. More …
The internship scheme fostering new skills, interests... and careers
27 April 2021
An internship scheme here that allows undergraduates to put theory into practice, develop valuable skills, and discover unexpected research interests and/or career paths, will get underway again in June. More …
Robert Watson wins EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award 2021
26 April 2021
Dr Robert Watson has won the 2021 EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award. This honour recognises European junior researchers (i.e. those no more than 10 years on from receiving their PhD) who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research. More …
Government to fund more businesses to test CHERI digital security solutions
19 April 2021
The UK government is making more funding available this spring to encourage companies to test out in the 'real world' new digital security solutions developed by this Department as part of the CHERI project. More …
July Data for Science Residency: applications open
14 April 2021
PhD students and postdocs across Cambridge have another chance to apply for a funded training course that is successfully equipping scientists with powerful tools to progress their research. More …
The Wheeler Lecture 2021
13 April 2021
Save the date of Wednesday 12 May, when Professor Daniela Rus - Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT - will be giving this year's Wheeler Lecture. Her talk is entitled 'Reimagining Robots'. More …
Helping Augmented and Virtual Reality realise their potential
5 April 2021
Though the concepts of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) were first demonstrated back in the 1950s and 1960s, a major effort is needed to solve the slew of technical issues that are stopping them achieving their full potential. More …
www-dyn / www-dyn1 rebuilt on Ubuntu 20.04 - www-dyn2 (Fedora 9) shutdown
27 March 2021
The www-dyn service, provided by www-dyn1 runing Fedora 9, ceased working a year ago (the www-dyn2 and www-dyn3 services continued to run). More …
An AI revolution in science? Using machine learning for scientific discovery
23 March 2021
What role could AI play in advancing the frontiers of science? And how can researchers benefit from advances in AI technologies? Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor Machine Learning here, will host a panel discussion on Monday 26 April to debate these questions. More …
Expansion planned for Isaac Computer Science learning platform
22 March 2021
The free Isaac Computer Science learning platform developed by experts from this Department and the Raspberry Pi Foundation is expanding to cover GCSE content as well as A levels. The change is happening in response to overwhelming demand from teachers and students. More …
Success for students at design project awards
17 March 2021
Three teams of undergraduates today won awards for projects including creating an app to help children's nurses in Myanmar, and using a robotic arm successfully to pack 3D objects into a delivery box. More …
A journey to Cambridge on 'the road less travelled'
7 March 2021
After dropping out of school, Sian Gooding went to sell PCs in a high-street retailer. It got her hooked on computing and eight years later she’s an award-winning student here, working towards her PhD. She tells us about her journey. More …
Improving diversity in AI 'would benefit society'
7 March 2021
"I'd urge you to consider a career in AI and data science," Michelle Seng Ah Lee told a group of black state school students recently. "Improving diversity in AI would benefit our industries and our society – making sure diverse backgrounds and thoughts are represented in the algorithms we are releasing into the wild." More …
'I want to make a contribution through science'
5 March 2021
PhD student Mahwish Arif (pictured front right at the Oxbridge Women in Science Conference) arrived here following a stint with the Pakistan Space Agency, a Commonwealth Scholarship and an MSc at the University of Edinburgh. On International Women's Day on 8 March, she tells us about her journey. More …
'Conducting research here has been a transformative experience'
17 February 2021
Meet Dr Ildiko Pete, a postdoc in our Cambridge Cybercrime Centre where she works at the intersection of machine learning and cybersecurity. More …
Showcasing our healthcare research
1 February 2021
Using body sound recordings to train computer models to predict Covid-19, and employing AI techniques in the quest to improve cancer treatment, were among the projects discussed at our Healthcare Research Showcase last week. More …
Students get hands-on with Federated Learning
15 January 2021
At a time when concerns about data sharing and data privacy have soared, students here have had a rare opportunity to experiment with Federated Learning – a technique for training machine learning models across devices without sharing the raw data they hold. More …
Professor named founding Vice-Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Energy
13 January 2021
Srinivasan Keshav, the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science here, has been named the founding Vice-Chair of a new Special Interest Group on Energy set up by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). More …