Future computing systems

We are developing novel approaches to processing and computation.

From our foundations with the world's first stored-program computer, we have grown and expanded with society.

Today our focus is on identifying novel ways to exploit the formidable complexity of the billion transistor microchips that semiconductor technology will make commonplace over the next decade.

Areas of expertise

Our researchers focus their work in the following specialist areas:

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  Advanced processor technologies

  From many-core computing to neuromorphic technologies, from adaptive compilers to field programmable gate arrays, we are advancing the state of the art for the next generation of energy-efficient computing hardware.

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  Nano-engineering and spintronic technologies

  We research the physical processes to create the computational and data storage devices of the future, using non-conventional computing media and collaborations with Physicists, Chemists and Materials Scientists.

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  Systems and software security

  We develop state-of-the-art algorithms, methods and protocols to address security and privacy in networked and distributed system environments, and tools to build verifiable, trustworthy software systems.

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