It is with great sadness that we remember Professor Michael Wilson, Scientific Computing Department, STFC, who died suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of April.

Ronald Cramer from CWI in Amsterdam and Leiden University was appointed Fellow of IACR.

Programming language Python and company Software Improvement Group (SIG) were awarded a Dutch National ICT Award on 13 June.

The “SoBigData” Lab is a recently created research initiative in Pisa, Italy, with the mission to perform advanced research and analyses on the emerging challenges posed by big data, namely the digital breadcrumbs of human activities continually sensed by the ICT systems that people use.