Big data

Astronomy and oncology do not make obvious bedfellows, but the search for new stars and galaxies has surprising similarities with the search for...

Cambridge is one of four leading UK universities awarded funding to train the next generation of researchers to become experts at assessing and...

The University of Cambridge is to be one of the five universities that will lead the new Alan Turing Institute, announced the Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable...

Researchers have found that, based on enough Facebook Likes, computers can judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even...

Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and head of the Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory (DIAL) at the...

A new study at the University of Cambridge has allowed researchers to peer into unexplored regions of the genome and understand for the first time...

Cambridge’s COSMOS supercomputer, the largest shared-memory computer in Europe, has been named by computer giant Intel as one of its Parallel...

From the way we learn, to how our memories are made and stored, the workings of our brains depend on connections forged between billions of neurons...