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£48 Million Funding Boost for AI and Data Science, Spearheaded by The Alan Turing Institute

Posted on 19th December 2018

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has today announced funding for two major new research programmes in artificial intelligence, both led in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute. The first programme will undertake and apply data science and artificial intelligence research with the goal to transform four key areas of science, industry and government, and the […]

PhD at the Turing

Posted on 7th December 2018

Each year, the Turing will be working with the University of Oxford to recruit highly motivated and talented individuals to embark on a career in data science and artificial intelligence. About the studentship The Alan Turing Institute and the University of Oxford offer a number of places each year to motivated graduate students to complete […]

Turing and Oxford Psychiatry join forces on machine learning and mood disorder research

Posted on 24th January 2018

The Alan Turing Institute and University of Oxford are launching a new collaboration bringing together the fields of psychiatry and data science. In partnership, Turing and Oxford will be developing language processing techniques that are effective for the assessment of mood. This project, which has been awarded seed-funding from the Turing, seeks to address mental […]

Posted on 7th March 2017

  Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia’s pages Over time, the encyclopedia’s software robots can become locked in combat, undoing each other’s edits and changing links, say researchers “Humans usually cool down after a few days, but the bots might continue for years,” said a researcher. Some conflicts only ended when one or […]

The Wikipedia bots that are engaged in spats that never end

Posted on 22nd September 2016

Is. Isn’t. Is. Isn’t. Is. Isn’t. It’s annoying enough when kids get stuck in this kind of loop. But certain bots on Wikipedia have been at it for years, endlessly making and unmaking each other’s edits in spats that never end.

First Article with ATI affiliation has appeared on Frontiers in Physics

Posted on 12th August 2016

In this article we take a critical view towards context-blind big data analysis, with the hope that it contributes to a better practice.

Oxford and the Turing Institute Launch Event

Posted on 12th July 2016

Oxford and the Turing Institute held its inaugural social launch as a garden party on Wednesday 8th June in the Rector’s Garden at Exeter College, by kind permission of Sir Rick Trainor.