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UK’s top student hackers compete for cyber security

22 Apr 2016

Students from the UK’s top cyber security universities will compete in Cambridge this weekend, in part to address the country’s looming cyber...

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Crossword

AI crossword-solving application could make machines better at understanding language

07 Mar 2016

A web-based machine language system solves crossword puzzles far better than commercially-available products, and may help machines better understand...

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Tackling inequality in computer science

26 Jan 2016

Riaz Moola is a Gates Cambridge Scholar doing a master's in Technology Policy, but he also runs a company which aims to revolutionise the study of...

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Supercomputer

The future of intelligence: Cambridge University launches new centre to study AI and the future of humanity

03 Dec 2015

The University of Cambridge is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities...

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Privacy

How can we protect our information in the era of cloud computing?

26 Jan 2015

Private information would be much more secure if individuals moved away from cloud-based storage towards peer-to-peer systems, where data is stored...

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Facebook's Infection

Computers using digital footprints are better judges of personality than friends and family

12 Jan 2015

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

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Kids taking part in the Sonic Pi summer school, plus screenshot of code.

Creating music in classrooms using code teaches ‘risk-taking’ in next generation

04 Nov 2014

Research into new education practices that fuse computing with music-making shows they create “enquiry-rich” conditions that empower children to take...

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Cambridge is a major player in the £1bn UK computer gaming industry

17 Jul 2014

From the first computer game to the world's largest online fantasy gaming experience - Cambridge has been home to some of gaming's greatest minds.

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UK’s COSMOS supercomputing research facility becomes an Intel Parallel Computing Centre

18 Jun 2014

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

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Dishes close-up. One of the supercomputer’s first roles will be as a test bed for the development of a computing platform for the Square Kilometre Array - an international effort to build the world’s largest telescope.

Super-fast and super-green: Cambridge unveils pioneering high-performance computer

13 Dec 2013

A super energy-efficient high-performance computer, with a performance equivalent to 4,000 desktop machines running at once, will enable researchers...

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Classic OPTE project map of the internet 2005.

Future internet aims to sever links with servers

30 Oct 2013

A revolutionary new architecture aims to make the internet more “social” by eliminating the need to connect to servers and enabling all content to be...

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Storica allows users to revisit any aspect of their lives in extreme detail, producing digital stories and an array of graphs and data which may help people to find out more about what is influencing their feelings and behaviour.

Dear digital diary…

12 Aug 2013

A powerful life-logging tool which captures and stores memorable moments in people’s lives is being developed by two researchers who argue that it...

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