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Alan Turing will be the next face on the £50 note the Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, announced today (Monday, 15 July).   ...

The University of Manchester has launched its first Coding Boot Camp in partnership with Trilogy Education. ...

The Software Sustainability Institute, of which The University of Manchester is a collaborator, has been awarded £6.5 million funding. ...

Students from the Schools of Computer Science and Mathematics competed at this year's Cyber 9/12 Challenge. ...

Two University of Manchester students have won the highest award possible at this year’s prestigious Undergraduate Awards.    ...

Scientists working at The University of Manchester have shone new light on the Enigma machine used by the German military in World War Two and cracked by Alan Turing and his team of code breakers at Bletchley Park. ...

The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain does has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for the first time. ...

The Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research (HIMR) will be opening a new office in Manchester, in partnership with the University’s School of Mathematics. ...

The University of Manchester will be part of a new £6 million cybersecurity hub in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Lancaster University and the University of Salford ...

The Royal Society is awarding Professor Danielle George the prestigious Michael Faraday Prize. ...

Seventy years ago today (Thursday 21st, June) a landmark development in the history of computing took place at The University of Manchester. ...

Cybersecurity expert, Dr Daniel Dresner, says it isn’t the technology we should be worrying about, but the people creating and using these tools instead. ...

The next generation of digital specialists will be created through the new Institute of Coding, a consortium of more than 60 universities, businesses and industry experts set to receive £20 million to tackle the UK’s digital skills gap. ...

A lost and unique collection of letters and correspondence from the late Alan Turing has been found in an old filing cabinet in a storeroom at the University of Manchester. ...

Magnetism is useful in many ways, and the magnetic memory effect appears even at the atomic level. Popular Science Monthly Nicholas Chilton, University of Manchester There is an adage that says that data will expand to fill all available ca...

Skyscanner co-founders, and University of Manchester alumni, Gareth Williams and Bonamy Grimes, have been honoured as Outstanding Alumni. ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown that it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that “grows as it computes”. ...

The University of Manchester is to lead a consortium to build the next generation of robots that are more durable and perceptive for use in nuclear sites. ...

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has expressed interest in brain-computer interface applications, and the company has recently issued job advertisements for neural imaging engineers to join their research team. Here, Cognitive Neuroscience expert ...

Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered a new method of creating optoelectronic circuits using graphene and other 2D materials that are much smaller than their current counterparts. Optoelectronics, the technology that uses puls...

Researchers from The University of Manchester have taken a significant step closer to demonstrate that it is possible to create miniscule - but very powerful - computers that could work at atomic scale. ...

A flagship project which launched a range of prototype computer platforms to support brain research - including one based at The University of Manchester - has just received an €89 million boost from the European Commission. The ‘Human Brain Proje...

Children with asthma will soon be able to breathe easier thanks to an interactive app created by a University of Manchester spin-out company. ...

A student from The University of Manchester has created a computer application which records the fossil collection of Manchester Museum on an interactive map. As part of his master’s degree project at the University’s School of Computer Science, O...

Research undertaken by The University of Manchester has found that most people shop on fashion apps at 8pm, and apps with strong social media integration are the most popular. Shopping via mobile apps is becoming increasingly important. According ...

The University of Manchester is at the forefront of a national drive to transform the teaching of computing in schools. In 2012, the University’s Professor Steve Furber chaired a Royal Society project which published a report that recommended a mo...

Steve Furber, ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at The University of Manchester, has been announced as the joint winner of a prestigious award by the Royal Society. Their annual prizes recognise exceptional scientists who are engaged in challengi...

The organisers of an exciting new interactive project which has been launched in Manchester are appealing for volunteers to take part. The Robot Orchestra initiative aims to create an environmentally-friendly orchestra made up of ‘robots’ playing ...

A flagship European project involving more than 100 universities and research centres has launched a range of prototype computer platforms to support brain research – and Manchester is right at the centre of it. The ‘Human Brain Project’ has relea...

Students from the University of Manchester have won the European Major League Hackathon season for the second time. Manchester regained its crown from King’s College London by beating 2000 students from 300 universities from across Europe at a series...