Department of Computer Science and Technology

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.

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.

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.

Professor Ross Anderson FRS FRSE FREng, our friend and longtime colleague, died unexpectedly at home on Thursday 28th March, aged 67.

Student projects on better ways to write music, improving supply chain resilience and sourcing second hand electronic components were winners of the Group Design Project Awards 2024.

Many congratulations to Nic Lane, Professor of Machine Learning here. He has been awarded a prestigious Chair in Emerging Technologies by the Royal Academy of Engineering for work to make the development of AI more democratic.

Congratulations to our colleague Dr Carl Henrik Ek who has won a 2024 Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

Congratulations to 3rd-year undergraduate Jakub Bachurski who won first prize in the Student Research Competition at the Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2024 conference.

Department spin-out lowRISC and the OpenTitan coalition have announced the production of the first commercial quality open-source chip in the world .

Negotiating with a robot, tackling pirate-themed 'Escape Room' puzzles and making music with code are just some of the activities visitors can try at our Cambridge Festival Open Day on Saturday 16 March 2024.

We are celebrating 20 years of the Department's Women@CL network - which exists to support female and non-binary computer science students here - at a special event this March.

'How old weather forecasts can help us design future energy systems' and 'Space Lasers for Good: Remote measurement of tropical forest degradation'. These were among the topics at our Climate & Sustainability Research Showcase.

Research Ready is a new summer internship programme that will offer insights into AI research to students from under-represented backgrounds.

Jessica Man's journey here has been highly unconventional. She traces her route from a remote Hong Kong fishing village, via 20 years in industry, to her place here as an award-winning graduate student.