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Cambridge is shaping AI for everyone

07 April 2025

Explore how Cambridge is using AI for better healthcare, smarter public services and new ways of tackling climate change. Meet our community and discover how ai@cam is supporting the development of AI that works for science, citizens and society.  

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Astrolabe reveals Islamic–Jewish scientific exchange

04 Mar 2024

The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever...

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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Carmel McEniery

01 Mar 2024

Dr Carmel McEniery is a Senior Research Associate in the Division of Experimental Medicine and Immunotherapeutics at the University of Cambridge and...

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Teams announced for The Varsity Matches

26 Feb 2024

The men's and women's teams for the 2024 Varsity matches are today announced.

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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Emily Kenway

23 Feb 2024

Emily Kenway is a writer, activist and former policy adviser. Her books include 'Who Cares: the hidden crisis of caregiving and how we solve it'...

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Ambitious goals for Dawn – the UK's fastest AI supercomputer

23 Feb 2024

Dawn is now being deployed for use by scientists within Cambridge and across the UK to support ambitious goals in clean energy, personalised medicine...

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Treating newly-diagnosed Crohn's patients with advanced therapy leads to dramatic improvements in outcomes

22 Feb 2024

A large-scale clinical trial of treatment strategies for Crohn’s disease has shown that offering early advanced therapy to all patients straight...

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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Sir Richard Evans

21 Feb 2024

Cambridge historian Professor Sir Richard Evans, a world authority on the Nazis and author of the forthcoming Hitler’s People, will be speaking at a...

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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Una McCormack

19 Feb 2024

Your chance to get to know more about some of the speakers taking part in this year's festival.

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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter

16 Feb 2024

Your chance to get to know more about some of the speakers taking part in this year's festival.

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Aim policies at ‘hardware’ to ensure AI safety, say experts

14 Feb 2024

Chips and datacentres – the “compute” driving the AI revolution – may be the most effective targets for risk-reducing AI policies, according to a new...

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The big question - Cambridge University team joins ALPHA hunt for dark matter

07 Feb 2024

A team of Cambridge scientists are working to help identify the mysterious and invisible material believed to make up 85 per cent of all the matter...

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A peek at some of the top events at the Cambridge Festival 2024

05 Feb 2024

Fixing the NHS, stopping wars, and the effects of AI on the democratic process headline a packed programme of events at this year’s Cambridge...

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