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Cambridge Ideas - Professor Risk
David Spiegelhalter's proper title is Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk. He is in two minds (literally) about playing it safe or chucking caution to the wind. Decisions, decisions!? Are...
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Cambridge Ideas - The Crime Experiment
This experiment will study crime hot spots and try out a technique Prof Sherman has developed in USA to lessen crime throughout the city by changing policing at these locations. This is the first time...
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Online insecurity
The research was carried out by Gates Cambridge scholar Joseph Bonneau and will be presented at a security conference held under the auspices of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in...
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How much does cybercrime cost?
The cost of protecting ourselves against cybercrime can far exceed the cost of the threat itself. This is the conclusion of a recent report ‘Measuring the cost of cybercrime’ by an international team...
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The making of a National Risk Register
This is not a particularly disaster-prone country when compared with other countries. After the Cold War, the British approach to what seemed like a rather modest risk landscape emphasised...
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Quantum ‘sealed envelope’ system enables “perfectly secure” information storage
A breakthrough in quantum cryptography demonstrates that information can be encrypted and then decrypted with complete security using the combined power of quantum theory and relativity - allowing the...
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Innocent landscape or coded message? Artists under suspicion in the First...
Last month the government announced an initiative to commemorate the First World War with a programme of cultural events called 14-18 NOW. Through Arts Council England, it will fund commissions by...
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Will one be forgotten? Internet Freedom and Data Protection After Google Spain
Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news.This Court decision...
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Opinion: Governments should turn to academics for advice on radicalisation,...
In August 1939, the operational head of Britain’s Government Communication and Cypher School, Alistair Denniston, wrote to the Foreign Office about the need to recruit “men of the professor type” into...
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The Whistle: verifying digital evidence of human rights violations
The footage is shaky but the sounds of gunfire and “Allahu Akbar!” are unmistakable as the boy darts along the dusty road towards the burnt-out car. Puffs of smoke erupt around him. He falls to his...
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