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Cambridge University Computer Science & Technology Department (aka the Computer Lab). We built the 1st usable programmable computer, offered the UK's 1st Computer Science degree, created the 1st webcam - and continue to advance the field today.
We're getting ready for our Computer Science Open Day as part of this year's Cambridge Festival! @cambridgefestival.bsky.social Visit us on Saturday 21 March to program mini robot cars, make music with code, Stop An Evil Hacker Deleting The Internet, and lots more.
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The Arm Morello board was a prototype hardware and early-stage software with the potential to block security vulnerabilities in future computer systems.
The CHERI project started as an ambitious research idea; 15 years later, it's a transformative approach to computer security. We're celebrating its 15th birthday in February & March with talks, a tutorial, an exhibition & a conference. Interested in taking part? cst.cam.ac.uk/news/landmar...
The next @ellis.eu Distinguished Lecture will be in one week, on February 17. Hatice Gunes (@cst.cam.ac.uk) will present Fairness for Affective and Wellbeing Computing Systems and Agents, online and at @oulu.fi.
Details here: www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-distin...
Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems here, is a researcher with expertise in using AI tools to monitor human health. In the last few years, she and her team have developed and trained machine learning models to help doctors diagnose Covid from recordings of people coughing, breathing and talking.
Prof @ceciliamascolo.bsky.social explores how AI can diagnose diseases as well from analysing body sounds like heartbeats and coughs as it does by analysing medical images like scans & x-rays. Today she receives an @erc.europa.eu Proof of Concept grant to take her work further. shorturl.at/qDHNF
Ötzi is carrying out a pilot to develop long-term wildfire statistics, including estimates of how many wildfires may occur over the next decade. Photo by Michael Held on Unsplash.
Environmental AI business Ötzi, set up by two of our alumni, is in the final of the The Trinity Bradfield Prize on 28 Jan (one of Cambridge University's leading early stage tech & science awards). Ötzi's mission is to use AI to improve how we predict & manage climate risks.
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The AI Sciencepreneurship Bootcamp is an immersive two-day programme for entrepreneurial Cambridge researchers on how to turn their AI ideas into business. It's run by our colleagues at @ai.cam.ac.uk and applications are open until 28 January. See full details in their post, below.
The Google DeepMind Research Ready scheme will run again this summer and is open to current undergraduates or recent graduates who are resident in the UK and eligible to pay UK home fees. See full details about the programme here: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/outreach/dee...
In summer 2025, 10 students from backgrounds under-represented in AI came to Cambridge to do a paid 8-week AI research placement with us. This was thanks to the Google DeepMind Research Ready programme, which will run again in summer 2026. Interested in applying? Visit https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/outreach/deepmind-research-ready
A former refugee & a mature student who returned to education after 30 years in hospitality. Just 2 of the students from backgrounds underrepresented in AI who did paid AI research placements with us last summer thanks to the Google DeepMind Research Ready scheme. Meet them here: shorturl.at/St577
Are you a Cambridge University researcher with ideas about using AI to address challenges in local government? Or a local authority interested in collaborating on an AI challenge? Then the @ai.cam.ac.uk Local Government AI Accelerator may be of interest.
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Students learning with Isaac Science - an innovative and free online learning platform that our Department helped to develop - have now made over 200 MILLION question attempts on the platform.
200 MILLION. That's how many question attempts have been made on Isaac Science, a free and innovative science learning platform for schools co-developed by researchers in our Department.
Want to know what the 200 millionth question was?
Find out here: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/200-mil...
The Department of Computer Science and Technology is based in a modern, purpose-built facility on Cambridge University's West Cambridge site.
📢*FACULTY HIRING* There are just 2 weeks left to apply for the position here as Asst/Assoc Prof in Algorithms & Complexity. Exceptional applicants from all areas of Computer Science considered.
ℹ️ See more details about the role & how to apply at shorturl.at/aN1ra
📅 Apply by 15 December 2025
Our CASCADE Centre is a dedicated new centre for research in computer architecture and semiconductor design.
🎉 We're delighted that a donation from Cadence means we can offer more fully-funded PhD studentships in computer architecture and design automation at our CASCADE Centre. tinyurl.com/565s49f3
Interested in doing a PhD in this area? There is still (just) time to apply for a start in October 2026...
The Guardian's Secure Messaging Service helps whistleblowers contact journalists without fear of their messages being discovered and read by others. It builds on the 'CoverDrop' secure messaging technology that was developed by researchers here, as Prof Alastair Beresford and Dr Daniel Hugenroth will discuss in their talk on Wednesday 12 November 2026.
'From research lab to newsroom: deploying secure whistleblower technology'.
@arberesford.bsky.social & @lambda.bsky.social
discuss their secure comms technology CoverDrop which now helps whistleblowers contact @theguardian.com journalists safely.
🗓️ Weds 12 Nov
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The image shows postgraduate students working in computer architecture and semiconductor design, affective intelligence and robotics.
Our (virtual) Postgraduate Open Day takes place this Thursday, 6 November. We'll have an online admissions talk and Q&A session for prospective students at:
09:00 (GMT) for MPhils
16:00 (GMT) for PhDs.
Want to attend? Book your place in advance here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
Xiangjian Jiang, who is developing foundational AI models to analyse and understand tabular data (i.e. data stored in tables and spreadsheets), has just been named as a 2025 Google PhD Fellow.
AI researchers are fascinated by Large Language Models. But Large Tabular Models? Nope, they don't get anything like as much research love. Our PhD student Xiangjian Jiang hopes to change this. A 2025 Global Google PhD Fellow, he aims to highlight this unloved area of research. shorturl.at/8lBPn
In October 2025, Luisa Cicolini and Qianhui Wang started their PhDs at CASCADE, our new Computer Architecture & Semiconductor Design Centre.
We're so pleased to welcome the first PhD candidates - Luisa and Qianhui - to the CASCADE Centre, our new Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre. Their research has been made possible by the support the Centre receives from industry, including Arm & AMD.
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Researchers should move away from the pursuit of a single all-knowing robot because the future of #robotics isn't a solitary genius, it's a collaborative community. So says Amanda Prorok, our Professor of Collective Intelligence & Robotics, in the journal '@science.org Robotics'.
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Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems at the University of Cambridge, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
@ceciliamascolo.bsky.social has been elected as a Fellow of the @raeng.org.uk! Prof of Mobile Systems here, she's a pioneer in devising frameworks to collect and analyse sensing data from devices like phones and earbuds, and use it to understand behaviour & health. shorturl.at/GnuZq
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Researchers Dr Guy Laban and Dr Fethiye Irmak Dogan collecting the Interdisciplinary Research Award in Social Human-Robot Interaction at the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication in August 2025.
It's been a summer of accolades for our researchers. Work by several members of this Department has been honoured by leading conferences and organisations in fields ranging from #AI to #cybersecurity to #socialrobotics.
Congratulations to our colleagues!
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The booklet attendees will pick up on the day explains the structure of our Computer Science degree course, what modules they can take and how to choose the ones that most interest them.
It's our annual Open Days tomorrow & Friday when hundreds of potential students come to find out what it's really like to study Computer Science 💻 here at Cambridge Uni. They can hear admissions talks & sample lectures - and try lock-picking with the Computer Security group! buff.ly/0j5OGJT
The rapid rise in AI-generated fraudulent academic papers is "poisoning" scientific literature, say Cambridge researchers in Nature magazine today. But though AI is the problem, it could also help in ensuring the integrity of scientific discovery... buff.ly/AuSNcGd
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Artists urgently need stronger defences to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent. So say an international team of researchers from this Department and from the Technical University of Darmstadt, where this image was created.
🎨 Artists urgently need stronger defences 🛡️ to protect their work from being used to train #AI models without their consent. So say the researchers, led by a Security PhD student here, who uncovered critical weaknesses in two art safeguarding tools very widely used by artists...
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Prof Srinivasan Keshav conducts research at the intersection of computer science and sustainability. He is the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.
Congratulations to Prof Srinivasan Keshav on receiving the inuagural #ACM SIGEnergy Achievement Award for his "pioneering contributions to energy systems and informatics, including seminal research, capacity building, and helping to create SIGENERGY and eEnergy." energy.acm.org/sigenergy-ac...
For more information on the wide range of security features in this new system, do take a look at the longer story: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/guardia...
The app is the Guardian's mobile news app - not a specific whistleblowing app - so there's nothing incriminating about having it on your phone. And when you open it, even if you've already set up an account on the Secure Messaging feature, it will deliberately look as though you haven't used it.
Delighted to see this technology - which builds on our 'CoverDrop' security research - being implemented by @theguardian.com
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The Guardian's new Secure Messaging service for whistleblowers wanting to contact journalists was developed in collaboration with security reseachers at Cambridge University.
From today, @theguardian.com's new Secure Messaging system will generate dummy messages as 'air cover' for real messages sent by whistleblowers. This is to stop adversaries seeing that they're contacting journalists. The new system builds on security research carried out here: shorturl.at/Et0Rf
Dr Dong Ma will join us in January 2026 as an Associate Professor in Wearable Computing. Dong is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University. His research interests lie broadly in the area of mobile computing with a special focus on wearable-based human sensing systems.
"One of the next frontiers for AI lies in deciphering human-centred data captured by wearable devices," says Dr Dong Ma, who'll join us next year as Associate Professor in Wearable Computing. "This holds the promise of tackling some profound societal challenges..." www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ass...
The annual Cambridge Cybercrime Conference brings together researchers working in interdisciplinary cybercrime research. In June 2025, the conference will cover topics including trust and identity in cybercriminal ecosystems, technical threats and disruption and resilience in illicit online activites.
Exploring the trust-building mechanisms that support #cybercrime markets on Telegram, and understanding the techniques #hackers use for exploiting human elements. Two of the topics to be discussed at the annual Cambridge Cybercrime Conference on 23 June. www.cambridgecybercrime.uk/conference20...
