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Electric heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) are to be trialled across the UK in a new programme to help freight operators decarbonise their fleet.

Dozens of attendees attended a workshop for the industry, academia and government experts evaluating a pioneering new cybersecurity technology co-developed here.

We're holding a special event in June highlighting the work in Computer Architecture currently taking place here and discussing ways to build our future capacity in this field.

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.

The natural vein structure found within leaves – which has inspired the structural design of porous materials that can maximise mass transfer – could unlock improvements in energy storage, catalysis, and sensing thanks to a new twist on a century-old biophysical law.

“It's been eye-opening to see the world from so many different angles. Cambridge creates a dynamic learning environment where everyone has something valuable to contribute,” says Mastercard Foundation Scholar Itumeleng Sebata.

PhD student Sara AlMahri has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Parmee Prize for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise – awarded for her start-up Revco – alongside co-founder Thomas Barber.

A Livery Company celebrating 400 years of history is honouring a student researching cutting-edge cybersecurity technology.

Alex Routh, Professor of Colloid Science at CEB, has been awarded the 2025 Thomas Graham Lecture by the RSC & SCI

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Students and early-career professionals of all disciplines are encouraged to apply to the Falling Walls Lab Cambridge – an international competition that challenges you to showcase a breakthrough that positively impacts science and society, in just three minutes.

Meet our new Planetary Computing Fellows who, thanks to philanthropic support, are working on harnessing the power of computer science to tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Members of the Institute for Manufacturing's (IfM) Centre for Industrial Sustainability, explore the crucial importance of making industrial resources more visible. 

Researchers behind the development and deployment of an AI vision-based monitoring tool – used to track social distancing decisions in London during the COVID-19 pandemic – have accepted the Wilkes Award 2024 for “best paper” published in The Computer Journal.

Arm has been named Company of the Year in our annual Hall of Fame Awards — a celebration of the companies set up by students, staff and alumni of this Department.

An expert on the environmental impacts of aviation, Barrett joins the University of Cambridge from MIT.

Stellar speakers and a growing recogntion that Theoretical Computer Science has relevance far beyond its own discipline made the inaugural Cambridge Algorithms and Complexity Workshop this week a great success.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the names of 255 outstanding research leaders to be awarded ERC Advanced Grants. The funding is amongst the EU’s most prestigious and competitive, providing leading senior researchers with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs. The new grants, worth in total nearly €652 million, are part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. 

A new project involving Cambridge researchers aims to challenge existing “wasteful” practices in the design and production of cricket gear – and help preserve and grow the UK cottage industry supporting it.

Juyeon Heo is a third-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge supervised by Adrian Weller. Her research aims to build trustworthy AI in healthcare, focusing on the generalisability and interpretability of Deep Neural Networks and Large Language Models.