600 Date: 17/05/2013 With a host of Cambridge alumni and academics on this year's Hay Festival programme, including speakers for the Hay 'Cambridge Series' and this autumn's Alumni Festival, there has never been a better time to learn new things, make new friends and reacquaint yourself with the intellectual life of the University. Read more...]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1321-1405-7338 Date: 15/05/2013 Leading neuroscientist Professor Barry Everitt has been appointed the next Provost (CEO) of Gates Cambridge – one of the world’s most prestigious scholarship programmes. Read more...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1321-1400-7244 Date: 15/05/2013 Ahead of his talk at the Hay Festival, Jonathan Haslam discusses his forthcoming history of Soviet intelligence organisations, revealing, among other things, just how unprepared for Operation Barbarossa Stalin was in 1941. Read more...]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1321-1401-7252 Date: 1/05/2013 The University's International Summer Schools programme has been welcoming participants from all over the world since 1923. In its 90th anniversary year, there's a tremendous line-up of academics to deliver 165 courses, 145 plenary lectures and, of course, anniversary events. Read more...]]> Wed, 01 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1321-1386-7170 Date: 24/04/2013 Cambridge’s Computer Lab marks its 75th anniversary this month, celebrating a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship that has taken it from the age of vast mainframes to its modern day place at the heart of silicon fen. Cambridge Computing: The first 75 years, published to coincide with the anniversary, tells the story of this remarkable institution. Read more...]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT ID1321-1355-6934