2024
Can we use AI to regulate AI?
10 December 2024
Can we use AI to help regulate AI? That’s one of the intriguing question researchers in this Department will pose at a conference this Sunday, just weeks before parts of the EU AI Act – the world’s first comprehensive law on the use of AI – take effect. More …
The researcher looking for better ways to prove systems software is correct
26 November 2024
In today's world, systems software – low-level software such as operating systems and hypervisors – is absolutely vital in running our computers and mobile phones. More …
Fellowship funds new research into 'hearable' health sensors
25 November 2024
Exploring how to turn 'hearable' devices like earbuds into genuinely trustworthy and reliable instruments for measuring human health and fitness: that's the target of a new research project that will shortly get underway. More …
Arm donation funds PhD students in new Computer Architecture Research Centre
20 November 2024
Arm is donating £3.5 million to enable 15 PhD students over the next five years to study at CASCADE – our dedicated new Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre. More …
New alliance launches to tackle cybersecurity threats
12 November 2024
A new alliance launches today to take forward a pioneering cybersecurity technology co-developed by researchers here. More …
Using AI to understand and tackle the spread of fake cancer treatments
29 October 2024
How is medical misinformation being spread online? Who is spreading it? And can we develop tools to reduce the harm caused to patients by conspiracy theorists and scammers selling fake cures? More …
The 2024 Wheeler Lecture - 'Supercharging the Human Mind With AI'
27 October 2024
Professor Yvonne Rogers, Director of the Interaction Centre at UCL, was our speaker for the 2024 Wheeler Lecture. 'Supercharging the human mind with AI' took place here in the William Gates Building on Wednesday 23 October and the recording is below. More …
Lovelace Medal for Dr Sue Sentance
24 October 2024
Many congratulations to our colleague Dr Sue Sentance, Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre here. She has just been awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal 2024. More …
Researchers' work on electronic eavesdropping attacks wins Best Paper Award
16 October 2024
For their research into ways that spies can pick up information by 'eavesdropping' on the signals that computer devices emit, Dimitrije Erdeljan and Markus Kuhn from the Department's Security Research Group have won a Best Paper Award. More …
Nobel Prize for our alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis
9 October 2024
"The reason I've worked on AI my whole life is that I'm passionate about science and finding out knowledge, and I've always thought if we could build AI in the right way, it could be the ultimate tool to help scientists, help us explore the universe around us. I hope AlphaFold is a first example of that." More …
ERC Starting Grant awarded for research on new quantum algorithms
5 September 2024
What does designing new quantum algorithms have to do with predicting the outcome of a general election? The surprising answer is, more than you might think. It turns out that an exit poll on the night of a general election could be a good proxy for the way such new quantum algorithms will need to work – namely, by inferring the answer based on a small, randomly-selected sample space. More …
Meet 'Terra', the AI aiming to map terrestrial life on the planet
2 September 2024
We've all read the urban myths about how evil Artificially Intelligent robots are going to take over the world. Now meet 'Terra' – an AI that researchers hope will help us save the planet by mapping the terrestrial life on it. More …
Experiencing life as a Computer Science student
12 August 2024
Students on our Sutton Trust Summer School last week learned about algorithms, experimented with computer graphics and attended lectures on cybersecurity as they learned what it's like to study Computer Science at university. More …
PhD student awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
9 July 2024
Many congratulations to PhD student Chaitanya Joshi, one of just five students across Europe to receive a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Europe 2024. More …
First students complete our Women in Computer Science programme
8 July 2024
The first group of Year 12 students to complete our five-month Women in Computer Science programme have just visited Cambridge for an end-of-course residential. Congratulations to them on their hard work and achievements! More …
Welcoming prospective students at the 2024 Open Days
4 July 2024
We're holding Open Days in the Department today and tomorrow (4 and 5 July 2024) when we're welcoming prospective undergraduate students. More …
The computer scientist whose technology helped millions to prove their identity
25 June 2024
John Daugman - a pioneering computer scientist whose iris recognition algorithm helped change the lives of millions of people - died earlier this month at the age of 70. More …
Celebrating Computer Architecture
20 June 2024
At a special event in June we highlighted the work in Computer Architecture taking place in Cambridge - and discussed ways to build our future capacity in this field by creating a new Computer Architecture research centre for PhD students. It is called CASCADE – the Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre More …
lowRISC and the Sunburst Project Bring CHERI Hackathon to Cambridge
17 June 2024
A hackathon held here in the Department gave participants the chance to explore the development of secure applications for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices using a novel secure architecture. More …
Six colleagues' achievements recognised with Senior Academic Promotions
12 June 2024
Congratulations to the six members of this Department who have been promoted as Professor! More …
'Escaping the Pointless' research wins undergraduate top prize
5 June 2024
Many congratulations to 3rd-year undergraduate Jakub Bachurski! He has just been named the Undergraduate Grand Finals Winner in the Student Research Competition run by the Association for Computing Machinery. More …
The Atomic Human - Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI
5 June 2024
The Atomic Human, a new book by our DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, will try to reset the conversation around artificial intelligence when it is published this week. More …
Cybercrime under the spotlight at June conference
15 May 2024
Why we should treat organised international e-crime the way we treat a pandemic; understanding the full range of harms suffered by ransomware attack victims; and how the UK National Cyber Crime Unit has used honey traps to disrupt cybercrime-for-hire marketplaces. These are just three of the topics that will be discussed at the Annual Cambridge Cybercrime Conference in June. More …
CHERI workshop brings attendees to Cambridge
13 May 2024
Dozens of attendees attended a workshop for the industry, academia and government experts evaluating a pioneering new cybersecurity technology co-developed here. More …
A farewell to Jack Lang
7 May 2024
We're saddened by the death of Jack Lang, an enthusiastic supporter of the next generation of computer scientists and company founders who had a long association with this Department. Jack died on 23rd April, aged 76. More …
Gold and silver award for student's cutting-edge research
1 May 2024
A Livery Company celebrating 400 years of history is honouring a student researching cutting-edge technology. More …
Meet our Planetary Computing Fellows
24 April 2024
Meet our new Planetary Computing Fellows Dr Michael Dales and Dr Sadiq Jaffer, who are working on harnessing the power of computer science to tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Both their roles have been made possible through philanthropic support. More …
Celebrating at our Hall of Fame Awards
19 April 2024
A world-leading British semiconductor company; a project investigating how robots could help boost our mental wellbeing; an email app so fast it promises to give users four hours back a week; and leading research into deterministic parsing. These are the winners of our annual Hall of Fame Awards, which were presented on Thursday 18 April in a ceremony at Queens' College. More …
Success for inaugural Cambridge Algorithms and Complexity Workshop
17 April 2024
Stellar speakers and a growing interest in the power of Theoretical Computer Science to shed light on central problems in mathematics and computation made the inaugural Cambridge Algorithms and Complexity Workshop this week a great success. More …
Ross Anderson, 1956 - 2024
3 April 2024
Ross made significant contributions across many areas of computer security and beyond, including cryptology; cryptographic protocols; cybercrime; hardware security and tamper resistance; information hiding and steganography; peer-to-peer networking; the security of application programming interfaces; the usability of computer security methods; the economics of information security; the connection between security and human behaviour; and many more. He was one of the founders of the field of security economics which explored how ideas from economics can be used to improve our understanding of computer security as well as better inform public policy. More …
Marking 20 years of Women@CL
27 March 2024
The Department's Women@CL network - which exists to support female and non-binary computer science students here - is 20 years old! To celebrate this milestone, we held a special anniversary event on Wednesday 20th March 2024. More …
Meeting robots, solving puzzles & making music with code at our Cambridge Festival day
19 March 2024
Playing a negotiation game with a robot to see how may points you could win. Using your computational thinking skills to solve the puzzles that will unlock a pirate's treasure chest. Or making music with code. These were just some of the activities visitors were able to try at our Cambridge Festival Open Day on Saturday 16 March 2024. More …
Students' Group Design Projects enjoy success
14 March 2024
Our second-year undergraduates exhibited their Group Design Projects this week. And their success in addressing the challenges they were set impressed the external companies and clients they were working for. More …
Making the development of AI more democratic
14 March 2024
Many congratulations to Prof Nic Lane who was today awarded a Chair in Emerging Technologies by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) for work to make the development of AI more democratic. To do this, he will be focusing on AI methods that are less centralised and more collaborative, and offer better privacy protection. More …
'For excellence in teaching' - Dr Carl Henrik Ek wins a Pilkington Prize
7 March 2024
Congratulations to our colleague Dr Carl Henrik Ek who has won a 2024 Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching. More …
Department spin-out lowRISC and OpenTitan coalition announce world's first commercial quality open-source chip
20 February 2024
While much of our digital world is now based upon open-source software, hardware has remained stubbornly closed-source since the very first modern computers (such as EDSAC) were built in the late 1940s. That is now changing. More …
Showcasing our Climate and Sustainability research
29 January 2024
We shone the spotlight on our research in Climate and Sustainability in January 2024. More …
Research internship programme offers students from under-represented backgrounds insights into AI research
16 January 2024
Research Ready is a new summer internship programme that will offer insights into AI research to students from under-represented backgrounds. More …