A new study led by ethical tech researcher Dr @elepetrovs.bsky.social shows that when gambling firms advertise on social media, they reach young men - the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour - at more than double the rate of women... www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Semiconductor company Rivos; the researchers turning earbuds into health sensors; an AI-assisted drug discovery advance; & a tool used by millions of software developers. All started by our current/former staff & students, they won Hall of Fame Awards last night: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/celebra...

Happy birthday to our #CHERI project, which has grown from an ambitious research idea into a transformative approach to computer security that is bringing academia and industry together. We're celebrating 15 years of CHERI with a conference today & party tonight! buff.ly/00XIsvx

"War in Iran risks triggering cyber insurgency: hackers are usually more interested in money than patriotism but this time might be different." A thought-provoking piece in yesterday's @financialtimes.com by Prof Alice Hutchings, Director of our Cambridge Cybercrime Centre www.ft.com/content/4e88...

We're not the only ones talking about #AI during #CamFest this year. We'll be showcasing some of our #AI research at our Open Day this Saturday, 21 March. And our colleagues from @ai.cam.ac.uk will be discussing the future role of #AI in improving public health next Wednesday, 25 March.

We're HIRING an organised & enthusiastic Outreach Coordinator to deliver our growing Outreach Programme. Do you want to share your passion for Computer Science? And encourage more people from all backgrounds to engage with this field of work and study? If so, see: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/outreac...

#AI makes our world more convenient, saves time & possibly lives. But it also adds risk to vital things like hospitals & food supplies. Hear researcher Hanna Foerster discuss this at our #CamFest Open Day on Sat 21 March. www.festival.cam.ac.uk/.../can-we-t.... @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

We're running a new 'escape room' at our @cambridgefestival.bsky.social Family Open Day on Sat 21 March - 'Help Us Find our Missing Computer Science Professor'. Find clues, make connections & see if you can solve the riddle! More details on this & other activities on the day at: shorturl.at/Jeu63

We're getting ready for our Computer Science Open Day as part of this year's Cambridge Festival! @cambridgefestival.bsky.social Visit us on Saturday 21 March to program mini robot cars, make music with code, Stop An Evil Hacker Deleting The Internet, and lots more. tinyurl.com/2zacmubb

The CHERI project started as an ambitious research idea; 15 years later, it's a transformative approach to computer security. We're celebrating its 15th birthday in February & March with talks, a tutorial, an exhibition & a conference. Interested in taking part? cst.cam.ac.uk/news/landmar...

The next @ellis.eu Distinguished Lecture will be in one week, on February 17. Hatice Gunes (@cst.cam.ac.uk) will present Fairness for Affective and Wellbeing Computing Systems and Agents, online and at @oulu.fi. Details here: www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-distin...

Prof @ceciliamascolo.bsky.social explores how AI can diagnose diseases as well from analysing body sounds like heartbeats and coughs as it does by analysing medical images like scans & x-rays. Today she receives an @erc.europa.eu Proof of Concept grant to take her work further. shorturl.at/qDHNF

Environmental AI business Ötzi, set up by two of our alumni, is in the final of the The Trinity Bradfield Prize on 28 Jan (one of Cambridge University's leading early stage tech & science awards). Ötzi's mission is to use AI to improve how we predict & manage climate risks. 👇 shorturl.at/Ju9PA

The AI Sciencepreneurship Bootcamp is an immersive two-day programme for entrepreneurial Cambridge researchers on how to turn their AI ideas into business. It's run by our colleagues at @ai.cam.ac.uk and applications are open until 28 January. See full details in their post, below.

A former refugee & a mature student who returned to education after 30 years in hospitality. Just 2 of the students from backgrounds underrepresented in AI who did paid AI research placements with us last summer thanks to the Google DeepMind Research Ready scheme. Meet them here: shorturl.at/St577

Are you a Cambridge University researcher with ideas about using AI to address challenges in local government? Or a local authority interested in collaborating on an AI challenge? Then the @ai.cam.ac.uk Local Government AI Accelerator may be of interest. www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/local-...

200 MILLION. That's how many question attempts have been made on Isaac Science, a free and innovative science learning platform for schools co-developed by researchers in our Department. Want to know what the 200 millionth question was? Find out here: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/200-mil...

📢*FACULTY HIRING* There are just 2 weeks left to apply for the position here as Asst/Assoc Prof in Algorithms & Complexity. Exceptional applicants from all areas of Computer Science considered. ℹ️ See more details about the role & how to apply at shorturl.at/aN1ra 📅 Apply by 15 December 2025

🎉 We're delighted that a donation from Cadence means we can offer more fully-funded PhD studentships in computer architecture and design automation at our CASCADE Centre. tinyurl.com/565s49f3 Interested in doing a PhD in this area? There is still (just) time to apply for a start in October 2026...

'From research lab to newsroom: deploying secure whistleblower technology'. @arberesford.bsky.social & @lambda.bsky.social discuss their secure comms technology CoverDrop which now helps whistleblowers contact @theguardian.com journalists safely. 🗓️ Weds 12 Nov 🕒 15:05 (GMT) 👉🏼 shorturl.at/FbMWc

Our (virtual) Postgraduate Open Day takes place this Thursday, 6 November. We'll have an online admissions talk and Q&A session for prospective students at: 09:00 (GMT) for MPhils 16:00 (GMT) for PhDs. Want to attend? Book your place in advance here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday

AI researchers are fascinated by Large Language Models. But Large Tabular Models? Nope, they don't get anything like as much research love. Our PhD student Xiangjian Jiang hopes to change this. A 2025 Global Google PhD Fellow, he aims to highlight this unloved area of research. shorturl.at/8lBPn

We're so pleased to welcome the first PhD candidates - Luisa and Qianhui - to the CASCADE Centre, our new Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre. Their research has been made possible by the support the Centre receives from industry, including Arm & AMD. shorturl.at/OmJxt

Researchers should move away from the pursuit of a single all-knowing robot because the future of #robotics isn't a solitary genius, it's a collaborative community. So says Amanda Prorok, our Professor of Collective Intelligence & Robotics, in the journal '@science.org Robotics'. shorturl.at/FdVtO

@ceciliamascolo.bsky.social has been elected as a Fellow of the @raeng.org.uk! Prof of Mobile Systems here, she's a pioneer in devising frameworks to collect and analyse sensing data from devices like phones and earbuds, and use it to understand behaviour & health. shorturl.at/GnuZq #RAEngFellows

It's been a summer of accolades for our researchers. Work by several members of this Department has been honoured by leading conferences and organisations in fields ranging from #AI to #cybersecurity to #socialrobotics. Congratulations to our colleagues! www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/summer-...

It's our annual Open Days tomorrow & Friday when hundreds of potential students come to find out what it's really like to study Computer Science 💻 here at Cambridge Uni. They can hear admissions talks & sample lectures - and try lock-picking with the Computer Security group! buff.ly/0j5OGJT

The rapid rise in AI-generated fraudulent academic papers is "poisoning" scientific literature, say Cambridge researchers in Nature magazine today. But though AI is the problem, it could also help in ensuring the integrity of scientific discovery... buff.ly/AuSNcGd @anil.recoil.org @sadiq.toao.com

🎨 Artists urgently need stronger defences 🛡️ to protect their work from being used to train #AI models without their consent. So say the researchers, led by a Security PhD student here, who uncovered critical weaknesses in two art safeguarding tools very widely used by artists... buff.ly/IiTrzLb

Congratulations to Prof Srinivasan Keshav on receiving the inuagural #ACM SIGEnergy Achievement Award for his "pioneering contributions to energy systems and informatics, including seminal research, capacity building, and helping to create SIGENERGY and eEnergy." energy.acm.org/sigenergy-ac...

From today, @theguardian.com's new Secure Messaging system will generate dummy messages as 'air cover' for real messages sent by whistleblowers. This is to stop adversaries seeing that they're contacting journalists. The new system builds on security research carried out here: shorturl.at/Et0Rf

"One of the next frontiers for AI lies in deciphering human-centred data captured by wearable devices," says Dr Dong Ma, who'll join us next year as Associate Professor in Wearable Computing. "This holds the promise of tackling some profound societal challenges..." www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ass...

Exploring the trust-building mechanisms that support #cybercrime markets on Telegram, and understanding the techniques #hackers use for exploiting human elements. Two of the topics to be discussed at the annual Cambridge Cybercrime Conference on 23 June. www.cambridgecybercrime.uk/conference20...

🎉 Congratulations @pietrolesci.bsky.social, Clara Meister, Thomas Hofmann, @andreasvlachos.bsky.social & Tiago Pimentel! They won Publication of the Year at our annual Hall of Fame awards last week for their paper on 'Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles'. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/announcing-w...

I am hiring a 2-year postdoc (either at Research Associate or Senior Research Associate level) to work on static analysis tools, particular with application to Fortran, at @cst.cam.ac.uk @iccscambridge.bsky.social. Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51153/ (closing date 25th May)

10 years ago Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma completed his PhD here thanks to a scholarship. Now he's giving another student the same opportunity. A gift from EdTech entrepreneur Raoul, founder and Group CEO of Cambridge Spark, will help support a PhD student researching computing education. shorturl.at/YXO3V

The stories here shed light on how our researchers are pioneering ways to use #AI to protect nature and climate. For example, our Planetary Computing Professor @anil.recoil.org is developing the 'Terra' AI, a predictive model of all terrestrial life on Earth. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-a...

Congratulations to our researchers who just won the Best Paper Award at #IEEE PerCom 2025 for their work in repurposing the microphones in our earbuds to collect & analyse vital bodily signs. Come and Meet the team this Saturday at our @cambridgefestival.bsky.social Open Day! shorturl.at/wGaSy

And if you're in Cambridge and want to see some of this exciting research yourself, come to our Open Day this Saturday (22 March) as part of the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social Cambridge Festival! Find full details of the day at: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/tour-su...

Some of our AI research is on this week's BBC Click! Presenter @spenley.bsky.social watches swarms of autonomous cars and drones working together in the Prorok Lab, wears earbuds that can sense our body's vital signs & learns how robots can help our wellbeing. Watch at: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

How do you train a fleet of driverless cars to work together to achieve common goals - and avoid humans? Come and see (and take part in!) a demo by researchers in our Prorok Lab during our Cambridge Festival Open Day on Sat 22 March. shorturl.at/wGaSy @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

Do you suffer from insomnia? Come to our Open Day at the Cambridge Festival @cambridgefestival.bsky.social where Dr Sam Nallaperuma (herself an insomnia sufferer) will share her research into how AI could help us treat sleep disorders. 📅Sat 22 March, 11:00-17:00 ℹ www.cst.cam.ac.uk/.../tour-sup....

We're looking forward to being part of #CamFest 2025! At our Open Day on Sat 22 March visitors can 'tour' the Dawn supercomputer, chat to a robot, make music with code, discover how AI can help you with your insomnia - or turn you into a guitar genius! - and more. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/tour-su...

The free 'GreenLens' app uses #AI to measure tree 🌳diameter. It's highly accurate – yet runs on a cheap, second-hand Android phone. Developed by researchers here, the app is for anyone interested in protecting & restoring forests. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/using-ai-see...

Congratulations to Prof Cecilia Mascolo. She was today named by The Association for Computing Machinery as a Distinguished Member for her "contributions to mobile wearable systems efficiency, and signal and data analysis enabling multidisciplinary applications". www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/recogni...

Videos of all the talks from our Research Showcase on Human-Centred Computing & Human-Machine Interaction last week are now available to view on our YouTube channel. Topics range from #DigitalTwins to Modelling Visual Constraints for Smarter Tech. 👇 shorturl.at/34X80 pic.x.com/ZNltcqcoOQ

#Sensors can capture vital information on buildings, such as their occupancy, CO2 & heat levels. But how do we employ sensors without making buildings into prisons like Bentham's 'panopticon' where occupants are under constant surveillance? Find out at our 23 Jan Research Showcase: shorturl.at/u7LId

Looking forward to our Showcase on #Human-Machine Interaction on 23 Jan. Topics include how understanding the limitations of human #vision can guide the design & optimisation of technology, helping align it with human perception for more effective human-machine interactions. ℹ️ shorturl.at/u7LId

"Now I've done this, I hope I can go great places in future." As applications open for our 2025 Research Ready Internships, 2024 intern Michael Ogunrinde tells us how he benefited from this programme that offers alternative pathways into AI research. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/opportunity-...

How can #robots help us assess the mental wellbeing of children? At our 23 January Research Showcase, PhD student Nida Abbasi will discuss her work in designing child-robot interaction experiences aimed at assessing children's mental wellbeing. Interested? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-s...