The Robin Walker Fellowship celebration event

We were delighted to welcome some of the donors to the recently-completed The Robin Walker Fellowship to a celebratory online call, along with Dr Walker himself and a number of other Computer Science Fellows at Queens'.

His former students recounted tales from their interviews and supervisions, as well as Dr Walker remembering how he ensured that one of them, who was asleep in their room, made it to their Computer Science exam which had just started.

Robin, as the "father of Computer Science" at Queens', has seen many changes over time including the upsurge in applications and the rising numbers of female students reading the subject.

The other Queens' Fellows present on the call were:

• Professor Alastair Beresford, the inaugural Robin Walker Fellow, Director of Studies for Parts IB & II & Deputy Head of the Department of Computer Science & Technology.
• Professor Andrew Rice, Hassabis Fellow & Director of Studies for Part IA.
• Professor Neil Lawrence, Professorial Fellow at Queens' & DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science & Technology.
• Dr Ramsey Faragher, Bye-Fellow.

The Robin Walker Fellowship is now endowed in perpetuity at Queens' to support the College's provision for Computer Science and in honour of the long-standing Fellow, who retired last summer from the Governing Body and is now a Life Fellow.

Further support for Computer Science at Queens' includes The Silvia Breu Prize, which rewards excellence in teaching Computer Science and is named in honour of Dr Silvia Breu (1976-2018). Dr Breu was a Teaching Associate at Queens', a popular and highly effective supervisor as well as a supportive and caring individual who made a significant, positive impact on the lives of the students she taught.

Philanthropic support has enabled the College to endow 21 Fellowships in total - more than one third of our Official Fellowships. Details of Fellowships recently endowed can be found on our website. We are most grateful to all our donors for their continued support; if you would like to contribute, please visit our website for more information.