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Papers accepted to Computing in Cardiology IEEE Conference
7th June 2013
Summer Conference Success for Oxford Computational Linguistics Group
29th May 2013
Group Design Practicals 2013: Winners Announced
16th May 2013
Oxford papers accepted to several key computer security and trust conferences
14th May 2013
Oxford and Royal Holloway to train cyber security graduates
9th May 2013
Oxford ranked third globally & top in Europe for Computer Science
8th May 2013
Prime Minister joins Sir Ka-shing Li for launch of £90m initiative in big data and drug discovery at Oxford
3rd May 2013
Livia Predoiu joins the department on a Marie Curie Fellowship
30th April 2013
Bumper crop of IJCAI papers for Oxford Computer Science
17th April 2013
Oxford papers accepted to ICALP
17th April 2013
Papers accepted to IEEE's Logic in Computer Science conference
17th April 2013
Dark Blues storm to Boat Race victory
2nd April 2013
Top cited papers in Journal of Web Semantics and Artificial Intelligence
29th March 2013
Clean sweep for Oxford at BCS annual awards
21st March 2013
Winners of the Oxford Computer Science Programming Competition Announced
6th March 2013
Oxford reaches semi-finals in the One Start competition
6th March 2013
Best paper award received at European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
22nd February 2013
Cyber security inside and out: Protecting business from cyber threats within
20th February 2013
Blanca Rodriguez awarded Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship
5th February 2013
Careers in Computing Fair
29th January 2013
Five papers accepted for HSCC
10th January 2013
Applications open for the UNIQ summer school in Computer Science
7th January 2013
Papers accepted into TACAS
4th January 2013
Professor to give three keynote lectures at international conferences
4th January 2013
Best paper prize at SWAT4LS'12
13th December 2012
Papers accepted to ICDT 2013
29th November 2012
Gary Mirams awarded a grant jointly sponsored by The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
23rd November 2012
Boris Motik awarded EPSRC Early Career Fellowship
23rd November 2012
Oxford CompSci Student Conference: winners announced
21st November 2012
Doctoral student accepted onto Science Innovation Plus scheme
20th November 2012
GCHQ to fund Oxford Doctoral studentship in Cyber Security
14th November 2012
Two computer scientists recognised in annual Oxford Teaching Awards
13th November 2012
PhD thesis "Computability of Euclidean Spatial Logics" awarded Best Thesis Prize
5th November 2012
Oxford CS Programming Competition 2012 open
5th November 2012
Three papers accepted to the International Conference on Computational Linguistics
2nd November 2012
Bookings open for the 2012 Oxford/CAS Schools Conference
31st October 2012
Can you build a robot that beats an Oxford robot?
31st October 2012
2012 Computer Science Industry Seminars announced
25th October 2012
Oxford Expands Algorithms Research
16th October 2012
Oxford No. 1 in Telegraph’s ‘Top 10 universities for computer science and information systems’ gallery
12th October 2012
Undergraduate Student Prizes Awarded
12th October 2012
MSc prizes awarded
3rd October 2012
Two papers accepted to POPL 2013
2nd October 2012
Ian Horrocks elected to Academia Europaea
1st October 2012
Oxford tops Sunday Times University Guide for Computer Science
1st October 2012
Doctoral student wins prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship in Studying Complex Systems
1st October 2012
Best paper award at CONCUR 2012
27th September 2012
In Memoriam: Captain James Anthony Townley
26th September 2012
Graduate Open Day - Friday 23rd November 2012
17th September 2012
Nature Scientific Reports publish a paper that uses PRISM to study cell cycle switch as a computing device
15th September 2012
Oxford ranked best in Europe in World Rankings for Computer Science (again)
13th September 2012
Forum for research on querying large data streams at Oxford
28th August 2012
Research in the Age of Big Data: speaker event
21st August 2012
Oxford ranked Europe's leading centre for Computer Science research
15th August 2012
Paper accepted to IEEE's Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
6th August 2012
Medical Research Council commends Oxford computational medicine research
26th July 2012
Research Assistant wins 'doctoral award' from Spanish university
19th July 2012
Five plus one papers from Oxford to be presented at ECAI 2012
6th July 2012
Professor stars in Royal Society podcast on Turing
2nd July 2012
Papers given at key security conferences
2nd July 2012
Student Conference 2012
26th June 2012
Paper accepted to FOCS 2012
25th June 2012
Badgers inspire 3D tracking tech
12th June 2012
Computer Science student awarded EPSRC Doctoral Prize
12th June 2012
Two papers accepted to CP 2012
12th June 2012
Papers accepted to VLDB 2012
30th May 2012
Paper accepted to EISIC 2012
30th May 2012
19th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2012)
23rd May 2012
The Oxford Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre to host Graduate Systems Biology Conference
14th May 2012
EPSRC announces grants for robotics research projects
11th May 2012
Doctoral student awarded Google scholarship
30th April 2012
Papers accepted to ICALP 2012
26th April 2012
Back to school for Oxford researcher
11th April 2012
Strong showing for Oxford at Logic in Computer Science conference
11th April 2012
Oxford academic aids in data revolution of Wikipedia
2nd April 2012
Fiftieth birthday of IFIP WG2.1
2nd April 2012
Oxford recognised by GCHQ as leader in cyber security
2nd April 2012
Oxford Embraces Cyber Security
27th March 2012
Oxford computer scientists get Boat Race Blues
19th March 2012
Doctoral student wins Best Poster Award
9th March 2012
Oxford professor to give Edinburgh University’s Milner Lecture
9th March 2012
Second Marie Curie Fellowship awarded
9th March 2012
Department hosts visit from Swiss undergraduates
7th March 2012
Oxford research makes front page news
6th March 2012
Tutor leads Royal Society Café Scientifique event
5th March 2012
Marie Curie Fellowship brings new researcher to Oxford
13th February 2012
Start-up Provides Sentiment Analysis Tool for Business, Finance
13th February 2012
Ib Sorensen – In memoriam
8th February 2012
Project to improve radiotherapy planning
31st January 2012
Computer Science and Philosophy Taster Day
27th January 2012
Further Maths — What Next? Taster day for Lower Sixth students
27th January 2012
Oxford's 'Careers in Computing' fair coming soon
17th January 2012
Software Engineering postgraduate Open Day announced
16th January 2012
Version 3.0 of Chaste (Cancer, heart and soft tissue environment) released
10th January 2012
Women in Computer Science day announced
10th January 2012
Applications open for UNIQ summer school in Computer Science
10th January 2012
Papers accepted to ESOP 2012
10th January 2012
Papers accepted to TACAS 2012
10th January 2012
Software Engineering at Credit Suisse lecture series announced
6th January 2012
Improving the reliability of unmanned aircraft used in disaster situations: new grant awarded
5th January 2012
Über Chips and Super Software Seminar
5th January 2012
New edition of 'Inspired Research' out
22nd December 2011
Daniel Kroening receives verification award
21st December 2011
Papers accepted to FoSSaCS 2012
21st December 2011
Joint winners of SVC2UK app challenge meet PM
23rd November 2011
Computer Science Graduate Open Day
21st November 2011
Marina Jirotka joins National University of Singapore Visiting Committee
18th November 2011
Oxford announces '1+1' MSc in Computer Science + MBA programme
17th November 2011
2011 Student Conference
15th November 2011
Graduate Open Day
15th November 2011
Top cited papers in Artificial Intelligence and International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
15th November 2011
13 Years of Service Oriented Architecture at Credit Suisse: Lessons Learned - Remaining Challenges
7th November 2011
Strachey Lecture: Mysteries of Search Trees by Professor Robert E. Tarjan
27th October 2011
Research Assistant wins KIT Doctoral Award
27th October 2011
Inventing the Future: The Oxford University/Computing at Schools conference
17th October 2011
Christmas Lecture: Why Should Robots Play Football?
13th October 2011
Researching Responsible Innovation in ICT
13th October 2011
Missed the October RobotGames? Thinking of attending the December one?
10th October 2011
Oxford to host Information Security Workshop
10th October 2011
Oxford computer scientists fight childhood pneumonia in Nepal
7th October 2011
Make it ‘appen! Do you have what it takes?
6th October 2011
Two professors elected to Academia Europæa
26th September 2011
Oxford students win prestigious international programming contest
26th September 2011
Software Engineering postgraduate Open Day announced
26th September 2011
Student Conference - Call for Papers
22nd September 2011
Why Robots Play Football? – Alumni Weekend Lecture
14th September 2011
ERC Starting Grant awarded to Daniel Kroening
14th September 2011
preDiCT project featured in short film
13th September 2011
Paper accepted to the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
13th September 2011
Best Paper Award received at CONCUR 2011
9th September 2011
September undergraduate open day programme announced
31st August 2011
PostDoc researcher appointed Co-Programme Committee Chair for web reasoning conference
31st August 2011
Can you build a robot that beats an Oxford robot? Oxford RobotGames announced
26th August 2011
Nuffield Science Bursary student contributes to Department's research
18th August 2011
Thesis awarded the ACP Doctoral Research Award
18th August 2011
DPhil student wins ‘Google Scholarship for Students with Disabilities’
1st August 2011
Six members of the Department become professors
28th July 2011
UNIQ: welcoming tomorrow’s Computer Scientists
25th July 2011
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Best Paper Award goes to researchers using PRISM
22nd July 2011
EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship awarded
18th July 2011
Professor wins Best Research Paper Award at International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
15th July 2011
Group Design Practicals: Winners Announced
14th July 2011
Workshop announced: cell-based modelling within Chaste (Cancer, Heart and Soft-Tissue Environment)
13th July 2011
New Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow elected
12th July 2011
Goal! Oxford scores at Robot World Cup
12th July 2011
Three Systems Security group members complete DPhils
11th July 2011
Postdoctoral researcher appointed co-chair of the 'Reasoning Track' for the 2012 Extended Semantic Web Conference
11th July 2011
Undergraduate Open Days programme announced
4th July 2011
Five papers accepted to the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
29th June 2011
Unique inter-departmental project begins
22nd June 2011
BBC highlights Oxford research
15th June 2011
2020 Science Workshop: Mathematical and Computational Modelling of Complex Natural Systems announced
10th June 2011
Second edition of InspiredResearch released
9th June 2011
Postgraduate student wins Best Poster Award at Cybersecurity Summit
9th June 2011
Guest column on probabilistic databases featured in the Digit Magazine
7th June 2011
Probabilistic Databases: new book launched
6th June 2011
$80,000 Google Research Award
2nd June 2011
Four papers accepted to the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming
31st May 2011
Quantum-inspired linguistic research to be showcased at leading conference
31st May 2011
Four papers accepted to CONCUR 2011
27th May 2011
Designing better and faster DNA circuits
23rd May 2011
Open Days for prospective undergraduates
23rd May 2011
Professor to give keynote lecture at Communicating Process Architectures 2011
23rd May 2011
New Royal Society Fellow elected
20th May 2011
Going underground: tracking badgers using wireless networks
19th May 2011
Doctoral student wins Santander Travel Award
19th May 2011
Paper wins inaugural ESWC: 7-Year Award
18th May 2011
Netcraft recruitment event
18th May 2011
Oxford University Computing Laboratory becomes Department of Computer Science
17th May 2011
Software Engineering postgraduate Open Day announced
3rd May 2011
Version 2.2 of Chaste (Cancer, heart and soft tissue environment) released
28th April 2011
Oxford success in robot football
27th April 2011
OUCL authors have six papers at ICALP 2011
15th April 2011
Logic for Interaction conference held
4th April 2011
Oxford hosts Computing at School Sixth Form Conference
31st March 2011
Nine Papers to be presented at CAV, the leading Computer Aided Verification conference
24th March 2011
'Killer app' for research launched
17th March 2011
Seminar: the Rt Hon David Blunkett on 'balancing security and privacy in an open society'
7th March 2011
Lu Feng shortlisted for the UK ICT Pioneers Competition
4th March 2011
The Software Engineering Programme at Infosecurity Europe 2011
23rd February 2011
Multi-university team receives $1.3M from Intel to improve firmware
17th February 2011
Advances made in using computers to predict the side effects of developmental drugs
11th February 2011
Women in Computer Science Day announced
1st February 2011
Nigel Crook has been appointed to Head of Department of Computing and Communication Technologies at Oxford Brookes University.
31st January 2011
New degree in Computer Science and Philosophy announced
28th January 2011
Computer Science and Philosophy Taster Day For School Pupils Announced
25th January 2011
Postdoctoral student recognised by Foundation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris
20th January 2011
Bob Coecke obtained a Large Grant from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi)
19th January 2011
Markus Krötzsch was interviewed by the German national radio station.
18th January 2011
Software Engineering PostGrad Open Day Announced
14th January 2011
Applications for Computer Science summer school open
11th January 2011
American Library Association Commends Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies Textbook
4th January 2011
OUCL receives Amazon Web Services Research Grant
4th January 2011
New Scientist recognises big “leap forward for artificial intelligence”
22nd December 2010
Inspired Research: newsletter launched
22nd December 2010
New Structures for Physics
15th December 2010
Oxford/CAS Sixth Form Conference Announced
6th December 2010
Advanced Cloud Computing Project with Hospital and Smart Power Grid Providers Launched
24th November 2010
Fighting cancer and modeling human hearts: Chaste 2.1 released
19th November 2010
2010 DPhil Student Conference
19th November 2010
Markus Krötzsch won the 3rd prize in this year's ISWC Semantic Web Challenge
18th November 2010
Hillston gives Strachey Lecture
16th November 2010
Badger quest: WildSensing reasearch wins award
15th November 2010
Understanding Concurrent Systems: new book launched
15th November 2010
Newton Fellowship extends researcher’s Oxford stay
11th November 2010
2010: Year of the Lung
9th November 2010
Computer Science Careers Fair Announced
9th November 2010
Workshop -The categorical flow of information in quantum physics and linguistics (October 29 - 31, 2010 Oxford)
18th October 2010
Joël Ouaknine to give BCS Roger Needham Lecture 2010
8th October 2010
Best paper prize at JELIA 2010
4th October 2010
Oxford Professor Ranked ‘Number One’ by Microsoft Academic Search
4th October 2010
Oxford Computer Science Alumni Nominated for BCS UK IT Industry Award
24th September 2010
Oxford Student ‘BCS IT Student of the Year Award’ runner-up
21st September 2010
Congratulations to Professor Bill Roscoe's new book "Reflections on the Work of C.A.R. Hoare" which has been published by Springer.
21st September 2010
Oxford University Start-up GroupSpaces.com Secures $1.3 Million Funding
17th September 2010
Prestigious Newton Fellowship awarded to Comlab visitor
15th September 2010
Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design
10th September 2010
Top cited paper in Theoretical Computer Science journal
2nd September 2010
Vote of approval from Oxford University Computer Science Students
17th August 2010
Would you like to sponsor the Computing Laboratory Graduate Student Conference 2010?
11th August 2010
Bernardo Cuenca Grau is awarded new EPSRC Grant
28th July 2010
Information Systems Group are Awarded a £683,000 EPSRC Grant
21st July 2010
$60,000 Google Research Award
20th July 2010
Teaching Excellence Awards winners announced
5th July 2010
Professor Bill Morton receives De Morgan Medal
2nd July 2010
FIVE COMLAB PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR VLDB CONFERENCE
1st July 2010
Oxford University Computer Scientists compete at Robot World Cup
18th June 2010
Update on Blanca's group activities
15th June 2010
Industry Liaison event 27th May 2010
11th June 2010
Women in Computer Science - Open Day for Girls, 14th June
10th June 2010
Dr Joël Ouaknine wins the Roger Needham Award 2010
10th June 2010
Professor Georg Gottlob elected Fellow of the Royal Society
10th June 2010
Research and Technology Showcase for Oxford Computing
20th May 2010
Outstanding Papers for AAAI-10
17th May 2010
Ubiquitous and extreme computing
29th April 2010
Computer scientist honoured by BCS
29th April 2010
Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Awards 2010
23rd April 2010
Program on the QICS Spring School on Foundational Structures in Quantum Computation and Information
19th April 2010
Strachey Lecture in Computer Science
9th April 2010
Yahoo! Research Fellowship to Thomas Lukasiewicz
25th March 2010
6 papers
22nd March 2010
15th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
3rd March 2010
Software Engineering Programme Open Day
26th February 2010
Spring School on Generic and Indexed Programming
26th January 2010
Interview of OUCL quantum group member Jake Biamonte in The Oxford University Science Blog on research in collaboration with Harvard
20th January 2010
Seven Comlab papers to be presented at TACAS 2010
21st December 2009
Oxford technology to allow mobile phone payments to replace cheques
18th December 2009
Marina Jirotka appointed as ESRC's National Strategic Deputy Director of e-Social Science.
2nd December 2009
Marta Kwiatkowska and Georg Gottlob awarded European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigators Grants
30th November 2009
COMLAB RESEARCH IN THE NEWS: SEALS project (Oxford PI: Ian Horrocks)
24th November 2009
Daniel Kroening speaker at the TECS Week: TCS Excellence in Computer Science Conference
18th November 2009
Stephen Pulman on BBC Radio 4, PM programme
16th November 2009
Jim Davies shares platform with President Uribe of Colombia
10th November 2009
Oxford top place in Europe for Computer Science
3rd November 2009
W3C Press Release
28th October 2009
Computing Laboratory Research on Oxford main website
19th October 2009
Computers look for meaning
19th October 2009
Improvements to the Security Protocol compiler Casper
19th October 2009
Article in the Irish Times
14th October 2009
New EPSRC grant
13th October 2009
Article in The Economist
12th October 2009
New Undergraduate Brochure
8th October 2009
New EPSRC grant
7th October 2009
EPSRC Funding for New Project
5th October 2009
Oxford Alumni Weekend
30th September 2009
Ralf Hinze wins Peter Landin prize
28th September 2009
Comlab Student Conference
20th September 2009
Open Day - Friday 18th September 2009
14th September 2009
The Strachey Lecture MT 2009
10th September 2009
Editorial Board of the Royal Society Philosophical Transactions A
7th September 2009
Article in IET Magazine
24th August 2009
International Semantic Web Conference
19th August 2009
Moving on...
4th August 2009
Departmental Teaching Awards
14th July 2009
Dr Rada Mihalcea awarded a US Presidential Early Career Award for Engineers and Scientists
14th July 2009
3rd International Conference on Geosensor Networks, 13th-14th July 2009, Oxford.
8th July 2009
Oxford Success at Robocup 2009
7th July 2009
The 22nd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2009) 27 to 30 July 2009, Oxford
7th July 2009
ECCAI Fellowship awarded to Ian Horrocks
3rd July 2009
EPSRC Leadership Fellowship 2009 awarded to OUCL applicant
3rd July 2009
New EPSRC grant awarded
1st July 2009
Computer Science Open Days - Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd July 2009
29th June 2009
Complexity Resources in Physical Computation
18th June 2009
HSI Best Paper Award
12th June 2009
Comlab in the News
12th June 2009
SIGMOD/PODS Best Paper Award for Georg Gottlob
5th June 2009
IJCAI Distinguished Paper award for Yevgeny Kazakov
3rd June 2009
Royal Society University Research Fellowship awarded to Bernardo Cuenca Grau
3rd June 2009
Teachers' Day - 4th June
18th May 2009
OUCL tops Guardian league table
13th May 2009
Dragon Boat Racing
11th May 2009
Computer Science Open Day - Saturday 9th May
8th May 2009
Oxford Computer Science rated second in the Complete University Guide 2010
1st May 2009
Call for participation for WCDSL
30th April 2009
Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award 2009 to Matteo Turilli
27th April 2009
Silver medal for Oxford Computer Scientists
24th April 2009
A Dozen New Grants Awarded to Comlab
8th April 2009
Capturing hearts and minds with computing
7th April 2009
Two EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships 2009 for OUCL
16th March 2009
Excellent RAE results for Oxford University Computing Laboratory
9th February 2009
Best Paper award at ICEGOV2008
8th February 2009
CHASTE WORKSHOP ON CARDIAC MODELLING
21st January 2009
OUCL-related Doctoral Training Centres extended
19th December 2008
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2008 and OUCL Strachey Lecture in Computer Science Hilary term 2009
19th December 2008
CSTST '08 Best Workshop Paper Award
4th November 2008
Jorge Cham of Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD) Comics Lecture: Wednesday 5th November, 2.30pm
27th October 2008
OUCL D.Phil Student wins AXA Funding
21st October 2008
From Computers to Ubiquitous Computing
15th October 2008
OUCL DPhil student wins Google Europe Anita Borg Scholarship 2008
15th October 2008
Information Day
15th September 2008
Talk by Prof. Don Knuth on "Fun with ZDDs" on Tuesday 23rd September at 2pm in Lecture Theatre A
22nd August 2008
OeRC vs Comlab Rounders Match!
16th July 2008
Oxford Tops Guardian League Tables
9th July 2008
Computer Science Open Days
25th June 2008
Release of Chebfun Version 2
2nd June 2008
WEB 2.NO: Anxieties about the Future of the Internet : Prof. Jonathan Zittrain, (OII and Harvard)
2nd February 2008