Department of Engineering

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Just made coffee while chatting to a friend? Time to thank your ‘visuomotor binding’ mechanism…

18 Mar 2014

Experts have identified a dedicated information highway that combines visual cues with body motion.     

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Alumnus Alan Skarda: from Graduation to the Crossrail project.

17 Mar 2014

Alumnus Alan Skarda is currently working as a Site Engineer for the Crossrail project. He has taken some time out to tell us about his career path to date.

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'Shadows'

Alumni Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering

12 Mar 2014

This year we would like to extend our successful student and staff photography competition to all alumni of the Department of Engineering.

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Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson wins £10,000 award for best PhD dissertation

11 Mar 2014

Congratulations to Andrew Gordon Wilson, a research student in the Department of Engineering’s Machine Learning Group, who has won a £10,000 award for his PhD dissertation.

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Women at Cambridge: The Meaning of Success

07 Mar 2014

New book highlights the lives and work of women at the University.

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Reducing risk in nuclear reactors

05 Mar 2014

Alumnus Dr David Coates has been awarded the IMechE Award for Risk Reduction in Mechanical Engineering for “outstanding contributions in the field of nuclear safety.”

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The first electric vehicle rental project for tourists in Japan struggles to make a profit

05 Mar 2014

Researchers at the Cambridge Service Alliance at the University of Cambridge, have suggested new ways of increasing the uptake of electric car usage.

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Google Award for the Automatic Statistician

26 Feb 2014

The Automatic Statistician, a project led by Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering, has won a US$750,000 Google Focused Research Award.

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Blake’s Gibbs Lecture: Machines That See, Powered by Probability

20 Feb 2014

Cambridge Engineering alumnus and Microsoft Research Cambridge Laboratory Director, Professor Andrew Blake, gave the prestigious American Mathematical Society Gibbs Lecture.
 

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Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering

17 Feb 2014

This year's photography competition, open to all staff and students in the Department, is sponsored by ZEISS.

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