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‘Digital mask’ could protect patients’ privacy in medical records

15 Sep 2022

Scientists have created a ‘digital mask’ that will allow facial images to be stored in medical records while preventing potentially sensitive...

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Digital manufacturing on a shoestring

24 Feb 2022

How approaches to low-cost digitalisation pioneered by Cambridge researchers are helping smaller UK manufacturers to go digital and reap the rewards...

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Transcribing together

23 Jul 2021

Volunteers join together to help the Cambridge Digital Library transcribe the notebooks of notable British ecologist, Oliver Rackham.

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Digital support

10 Feb 2021

Research published today shows how digital providers are coming together to support the mental health needs of millions of users unable to access...

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Unexpected experiences: Lucy Spokes talks about the excitement of a newly digital Festival

29 Jul 2020

Head of Public Engagement, Dr Lucinda Spokes, describes the difficult decision to pull the plug on the 26th Cambridge Science Festival in March this...

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Bringing Cambridge University Libraries to you

04 Jun 2020

We anticipate that by July 6, the University Library will begin to provide limited services for students and staff to pick up books ordered online.

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Online voting

Anyone for digital democracy?

02 Mar 2015

Dr Finbarr Livesey – University lecturer and Deputy Director of the MPhil in Public Policy – submitted research to Parliament’s recent report on...

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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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Lightsaber lessons

Return of the new gods: Jedis, auras and online witch schools

24 Oct 2014

Research by a digital anthropologist is looking at how new religious movements are harnessing online platforms. These ‘invented religions’ take...

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Cambridge University Press reports sales growth

21 Aug 2014

Cambridge University Press today reported a twelfth successive year of sales growth in its 2013/4 Annual Report.

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Five ways a digital platform could transform your business

27 Jun 2014

We’ve all seen it happen: a “transformation” programme which leaves the original organisational silos undisturbed. But although this is surprisingly...

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Sledging Party Returning from the Pole

Paul Coldwell Exhibition at The Polar Museum

30 May 2013

To celebrate his year-long research project at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), internationally renowned artist Paul Coldwell will launch...

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