2015 – Southampton launched its Cyber Security Academy to help make government, businesses and consumers more resilient to cyber-attack. Our MSc in Cyber Security is awarded Provisional Certification against the GCHQ Certified Master's degree in General Cyber Security standard.
2014 – Professor Nick Jennings, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, is appointed to the UK's only Regius Chair of Computer Science, established to commemorate HM The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and based in ECS at the University of Southampton
2014 – The Web Science Institute is launched, bringing together world-leading multidisciplinary expertise from across the University to tackle the most pressing global challenges facing the World Wide Web and wider society today.
2012 – ECS Professors Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee receive funding of £10m from the UK Government to ensure that the benefits of Open Data are translated to the UK’s business community through the establishment of the UK's Open Data Institute
2011 – Dr Zakharia Moktadir develops a transistor made from graphene, the world’s thinnest material, with the support of new facilities in the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, Europe’s leading research cleanroom
2004 – Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, joins ECS and helps to launch the new discipline of Web Science
1990s – ECS merges with Electrical Engineering, adding the High Voltage Laboratory to its range of unique facilities
1980s – Electronics merges with Computer Science – providing a unique capability ranging from theoretical computer science to the fabrication of silicon chips
1970s – Southampton is the only UK university in which electronic circuits can be conceived, designed and made
1960s – The world’s first optical fibres are drawn in Southampton, heralding the era of global telecommunications
1950s – Southampton becomes the first UK university to launch a BSc course in Electronics