Blue Plaque for EDSAC: Cambridge University's pioneering computer
The Blue Plaque commemorates the development of EDSAC in Cambridge and is the first Cambridge & District Blue Plaque to mark the creation of a machine.
The Blue Plaque commemorates the development of EDSAC in Cambridge and is the first Cambridge & District Blue Plaque to mark the creation of a machine.
Whistleblowers can contact journalists more securely thanks to a new confidential and anonymous messaging technology co-developed by University of Cambridge researchers and software engineers at the Guardian.
Two University alumni, Sir Demis Hassabis and Dr John Jumper, have been jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting the complex structures of proteins.
Wearable devices will play an important part in the healthcare delivery of the future. Cambridge and Nokia Bell Labs are working together to build the foundations for these transformative new technologies.
The long-sought dream of wearable and mobile devices that will interpret, replicate and influence people’s emotions and perceptions will soon be a reality thanks to a collaboration between the University and Nokia Bell Labs.
More than 1,000 people around the world have signed up to take part in the biggest ever public study of Android phone usage.
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