University of Cambridge Computing Service

Landmark projects and services

• EDSAC computer, 1949 - a pioneering stored-program computer
• EDSAC 2 computer, 1965 - first computer to have a microprogrammed CPU
• Titan computer, 1966 - timeshared computer developed jointly with Ferranti subsequently marketed as the commercial Atlas 2
• Phoenix computer, 1973 - an IBM 370/165 running an IBM OS modified for improved interactive timesharing
• Exim mail transfer agent, 1995 - in continued open-source development and in very widespread use
• authentication service, 2004 - a web-based authentication framework particularly suited to the widespread adoption across many federated institutions as at Cambridge. Extended subsequently to integrate with inter-organisational Shibboleth authentication and provide lifetime credentials known as Raven-for-life.
• Federated Wireless platform, 2006 - provides local management via web console/APIs to 200 institutions while retaining a single network appearance with common authentication and reporting.
• user/telephony federated administration system, 2010 - providing a usable federated administrative interface to the VoIP platform to 17,000 users and 200 institutions.
• master reference data / identity management service, 2011 - provides a central common data repository with LDAP and Web service API's for 300,000 members of 250 institutions, with a sophisticated federated access control model.

  Directors of the University of Cambridge Computing Service

• Maurice Wilkes 1945–1980
• David Hartley 1970–1994
• Mike Sayers 1994–2004
• Ian Lewis 2005–2014