2023
New Associate Professor in Computer Architecture
5 December 2023
We’re very pleased to share the news that Dr Prakash Murali will be joining us as a new member of our faculty in January 2024. More …
Micro:bit Educational Foundation supports new research into physical computing in schools
27 November 2023
In a new project about to get underway in our Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre, researchers will explore over time the impact of physical computing on children who are introduced to it at primary school. More …
The 2023 Wheeler Lecture: 'A taste of Verse'
15 November 2023
Alumni and students packed out our main lecture theatre today as Simon Peyton Jones delivered the 2023 Wheeler Lecture, 'Beyond functional programming: a taste of Verse'. More …
How can compilers contribute to understanding climate change?
7 November 2023
We’re very pleased to welcome Dr Tobias Grosser as a new member of our faculty. More …
Training the next generation of AI researchers
31 October 2023
We're pleased to announce we're offering a new Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from next academic year in partnership with the University of Manchester. More …
Computer modelling helps researchers value the carbon storage potential of natural habitats
30 October 2023
Researchers have invented a more reliable and transparent method than previously of estimating the benefit of carbon stored as a result of forest conservation. More …
The 2023 Postgraduate Open Days
23 October 2023
Virtual Postgraduate Open Days take place across the University of Cambridge from 23 October to 3 November. More …
Announcing the Hopper Studentship
18 October 2023
Professor Sir Andy Hopper has created the Hopper Studentship fund that will enable one recipient every year to study for their PhD here. More …
Supporting Human Intelligence
17 October 2023
In a year that has brought Artificial Intelligence into public debate, it’s timely that a new research group has been set up in this Department to refocus attention on supporting Human Intelligence. More …
Opportunity for research internships in Japan
10 October 2023
PhD students can apply this month for internships that offer opportunities for a wide range of research in a very different cultural environment. More …
Meet our new Head of Department
3 October 2023
A new Head of Department takes up his post here this week as the University’s academic year gets underway. More …
Ada Computer Science - the new online computer science learning platform
13 September 2023
As children return to school this autumn, Ada Computer Science – the new online computer science learning platform – is offering computing teachers a diagnostic test they can use to benchmark where students are in their learning. The test can also be personalised by teachers. More …
Celebrating the renewal of our Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence
11 September 2023
We'll be celebrating the renewal of the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence next week. The Centre will hold a special Open Day here on Wednesday 20th September. More …
Welcoming alumni to our 'Computer Vision' event
6 September 2023
How AI 'truth-tellers' can check the evidence behind claims made by politicians and by Chat GPT; how different ways of representing environmental data can make it easier for us to understand; and how we can make computing education more relevant to school children. More …
Discovering what Computer Science is like at Uni
16 August 2023
We're very pleased to be welcoming students into the Department this week for the 2023 Sutton Trust / University of Cambridge Computer Science Summer School. More …
Can AI diagnose patients with severe respiratory tract infections?
14 August 2023
Researchers using AI to identify patients at risk of developing severe respiratory tract infections have just won support from UK Research and Innovation. More …
New computational method can integrate gene expression across multiple tissue types
11 August 2023
A novel computational method for integrating gene expression across many different types of human tissue has been developed by a team including researchers here. More …
New Associate Professor in Computer Security and Privacy
11 August 2023
We’re delighted to announce that Dr Martin Kleppmann will be joining us as a member of our faculty from January 2024. More …
Mobile health-monitoring device wins ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant
27 July 2023
Many congratulations to Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems here, who has won an ERC Proof of Concept grant 2023. More …
Computational method produces robust roadmap of how brain regions are related
18 July 2023
Researchers using computational methods to study MRI scans say they can produce a more detailed picture of the structural architecture of the human brain than was previously possible. More …
Researcher receives 'Test of Time' Award for her work on data stream processing
17 July 2023
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – the world's largest association of computing professionals – has honoured a researcher here for her work on the efficient use of cloud resources for data stream processing. More …
Award for advancing the sensing capabilities of in-ear devices
11 July 2023
A researcher into the use of wearable devices for health monitoring has just won the 2023 ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Runner-up Award. More …
Free places for UK teachers at computing education conference
10 July 2023
UK-based teachers of computing subjects can apply for a funded place at a leading computing education conference that we and the Raspberry Pi Foundation are hosting in Cambridge this September. More …
Welcoming prospective students at the 2023 Open Days
6 July 2023
We're holding Open Days in the Department this week when we're welcoming in prospective undergraduate students and their parents. More …
Using computing to address deforestation
27 June 2023
Climate change is the greatest challenge of our age. The impacts of climate change are now being felt in every region of the planet. Solutions are being developed here at the University of Cambridge that can be implemented, grown to scale, and used to accelerate the rapid transition to a net zero and then zero emissions economy. More …
Professorial promotions for six of our colleagues
19 June 2023
Pictured above, from left to right: Alice Hutchings, Neel Krishnaswami, Cengiz Oztireli, Hatice Gunes, Rafal Mantiuk and Rob Mullins. More …
More UK companies sign up to test groundbreaking cybersecurity technology
19 June 2023
Eight more companies have signed up to help test a pioneering new approach to cybersecurity that started life here. More …
ACM Programming Languages Software Award goes to OCaml researchers
19 June 2023
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest association of computing professionals, today gave the 2023 SIGPLAN Award to a group of developers for their work on the functional programming language OCaml. More …
New Associate Professor in Logical Foundations and Formal Methods
13 June 2023
We’re very pleased to announce that Jon Sterling will be joining us as a new member of our faculty this September. More …
Cybercrime in the spotlight at June conference
8 June 2023
A talk by the FBI on their collaborative approach to investigating cybercriminals. A new approach to studying the relationship between autism and cybercrime. And an analysis of how effective online ad campaigns are in protecting at-risk users from denial of service attacks. These are among the talks on the agenda at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre annual conference this month. More …
New Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics
30 May 2023
We’re very pleased to announce that Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín will be joining us as a new member of our faculty this August. More …
'Stand-out' dissertation receives ACM award
24 May 2023
Many congratulations to Research Fellow Conrad Watt whose PhD dissertation today received an Honourable Mention for the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. More …
The researchers offering a Pint of Science!
22 May 2023
Four researchers in this Department are talking about their work in pubs this week as part of the science festival, Pint of Science. More …
Looking through the lens of complexity theory
18 May 2023
We’re very pleased to announce that Tom Gur will be joining us as a new member of our faculty this August. More …
Addressing inequalities in the digital society
17 May 2023
Two researchers from this Department are part of a new national initiative exploring how digital services and infrastructures can be made to better support inclusion and equality. More …
Professor elected to Royal Society Fellowship
9 May 2023
Our colleague Professor Peter Sewell has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, it was announced today (Wednesday 10 May 2023). More …
Hosting the Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference
26 April 2023
The 2023 Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference takes place here in the William Gates Building this Saturday. More …
Deep Gaussian Processes paper wins AISTATS Test of Time Award
26 April 2023
For their paper on Deep Gaussian Processes, our colleague Professor Neil Lawrence and his former PhD student Dr Andreas Damianou have today won the AISTATS 2023 'Test of Time' Award. More …
Presenting the 2022 Hall of Fame Awards
20 April 2023
A company aiming to 'invent the way humanity interacts with AI'; a project investigating if we can identify patients with Alzheimer’s disease by using GPS to track how well they navigate their way round their local area; a platform offering a unified approach to federated learning; and a research centre scaling up the supply of deforestation-avoidance carbon credits to help tackle tropical deforestation. More …
Getting ready to welcome two new Gates Scholars
17 April 2023
We look forward to welcoming Gates Scholars 2023 Anais Berkes and Gregor Feierabend when they join us later this year! More …
Researchers named joint winners of UK-US challenge to detect financial crime
4 April 2023
A team led by Professor Nic Lane has been announced as joint winner of a prize to drive ‘innovation in privacy-enhancing technologies that reinforce democratic values’ for its work on tackling international money laundering. More …
ERC grant for work on making our data and systems SAFER from malicious attacks
30 March 2023
Congratulations to Professor Peter Sewell who was today awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project 'SAFER' – 'Secure Foundations: Verified Systems Software Above Full-Scale Integrated Semantics'. More …
Talking to robots and making music with code...
19 March 2023
Talking to robots and making music with code were just two of the activities visitors could try out at our day of open events on Saturday 18 March. More …
Students find success at design project awards
15 March 2023
Three teams of second-year students took home the honours today when the Part 1B Group Project Awards were announced. More …
Connecting computer science and the climate crisis
7 March 2023
Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional, manual methods. More …
Micro:bit Educational Foundation supports PhD research into helping children acquire digital skills
6 March 2023
Through a partnership with a research centre here, Micro:bit Educational Foundation is supporting a PhD student who wants to help more children around the world to acquire digital skills. More …
AI truth tellers. Fact... or fiction?
13 February 2023
Fact-checking has become increasingly important because of the speed with which both information and misinformation can spread in the modern media ecosystem. But fact-checking is a time-consuming task. For example, to judge the validity of claims about how many jobs were gained under the Trump administration compared to the Obama administration, a journalist would need to search many sources and evaluate the reliability of each of them before making a comparison. More …
Student wins award for work on pioneering cybersecurity technology
30 January 2023
An undergraduate working on a pioneering new way to make our digital devices more secure has become the third student to win the annual Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers' Award for Excellence and Achievement in Computer Hardware. More …
Showcasing our security research
26 January 2023
From protecting whistleblowers to preventing the abuse of item-tracking technology, and from software compartmentalisation to cybercrime, a Security Research Showcase in January 2023 highlighted some of the security work being carried out here. More …
Federated learning tool wins ERC Proof of Concept grant
24 January 2023
Congratulations to Nic Lane, Professor of Machine Learning Systems here, who has won an ERC Proof of Concept grant 2022. More …
Sandy Fraser: a memorial to his achievements
20 January 2023
We're holding a memorial in February for Dr Alexander Fraser, a computer science pioneer whose work was fundamental to the development of the internet we use today. This special event will remember and celebrate his legacy. More …