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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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Lecture honour for Professor Soga

14 Feb 2014

Professor Kenichi Soga was invited by the Council of the Italian Geotechnical Association (AGI) to deliver the annual Croce Lecture at the Italian National Research Council in Rome.

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Professor Mair appointed Chair of the Department for Transport's Science Advisory Council

13 Feb 2014

Professor Robert Mair CBE, FREng, FRS has been appointed Chairman of the Department for Transport's Science Advisory Council.

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Alumni Jonathan Bassett and Sam Cocks are working on solar powered home-lighting systems in India

10 Feb 2014

Alumni Jonathan Bassett and Sam Cocks are working for SELCO Foundation providing solar powered lighting systems for people in unelectrified or under-electrified regions in India.

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