The Queen's Awards

Since 1966, awards for Export and for Technological Achievement have been announced on the Queen's birthday. It has been said that the Queen's Award is an institutional equivalent of an OBE or a knighthood.

The Computing Laboratory was the first department of Oxford University ever to receive the award, when it won its first award in 1990, the twenty-fifth year of the awards. It was one of only three university research groups amongst the year's 175 award-winners.

In 1992, the Laboratory was the first university department nationally to receive a second Queen's Award.