Landmark Projects and Results
- EDSAC – world’s first practical stored program electronic computer (1949–1958)
- Subroutine (1951)
- OXO – world’s first video game (1952)
- EDSAC 2 (1958–1965)
- Autocode – one of the first high-level programming languages (1961)
- Titan – early multi-user time-share computer (1964–1973)
- Phoenix – IBM 370 with locally developed OS and hardware extensions (1973–1995)
- TRIPOS operating system – became later the basis for AmigaDOS
- BCPL programming language – ancestor of C
- CAP computer – hardware support for capability-based security
- Cambridge Ring – an early local area network
- Cambridge Distributed Computing System
- Trojan Room coffee pot – the world’s first webcam (1993)
- Iris recognition – biometric identification with vanishingly small false-accept rate
- Nemesis – real-time microkernel OS
- Active Bat – ultrasonic indoor positioning system
- Xen – virtual machine monitor (2003–present)
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