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The Turing works with a range of partners with far-reaching, real-world impact across sectors

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The Alan Turing Institute works with academic and industry partners on a diverse range of research projects. Below is a selection of stories demonstrating their far-reaching, real-world impact.

AI for science and government (ASG)

Learn more about the impacts from our major five-year integrated research programme AI for Science and Government (2018-2023), funded by EPSRC.

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Predicting conflict – a year in advance

Ground-breaking technology developed at The Alan Turing Institute could revolutionise the prediction of global conflict, boosting peacekeeping efforts and saving lives

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Putting the AI in air traffic control

The UK’s leading air traffic control provider, NATS, has teamed up with the Turing to explore how the industry can evolve with machine learning

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Dynamic forecasting with British Airways

Predicting demand for flights is central to airline business strategy, and enormously complex. In collaboration with British Airways, the Turing has developed novel machine learning techniques to tackle the challenge

The Turing Way

Changing the culture of data science

The Turing Way is an online handbook – and global community – dedicated to fostering gold-standard reproducible research. It’s a cultural movement with the potential to transform data science

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Transforming medicine through AI-enabled healthcare

World-leading expertise in healthcare-focused machine learning combined with the world’s largest, high-quality cancer data collection service could lead to a quantum leap in personalised medicine

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The next step in precision agriculture

Growing enough food for the world’s burgeoning population may require smart farms that can sense their crop conditions and feed themselves on demand, and Turing researchers are developing the technology they’ll need

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A machine learning revolution in disaster response

Turing researchers have combined crowd-sourcing, machine learning and neural networks to rapidly reveal the many dimensions of natural disasters, deploying the technology in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian

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Co-designing computing

High-performance computing (HPC) environments such as data centres can be ill-equipped to deal with data science tasks, so Turing researchers collaborated with Intel to co-design better architecture for their HPC systems

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Towards a greener grid

Turing researchers and doctoral students contributed to a new solar forecasting system for National Grid, which is 33% more accurate at day-ahead forecasts, aiding in more efficient balancing of supply and demand and lowering consumer costs

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Augmenting clinical decision-making

Working with the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Turing researchers have been developing machine learning methods that could dramatically improve the accuracy of clinical assessments of people with cystic fibrosis

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Understanding urban air quality

Turing researchers are working with the Greater London Authority to use machine learning and statistical methodology to better analyse air pollution sensor data, design better policy interventions, and improve urban quality of life

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Fairer algorithm-led decisions

Turing researchers from diverse fields have produced a new way of approaching fairness in algorithm-led decisions, by looking at the causes of certain factors that can often result in biased decision-making

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A right to explanation

Advice from Turing researchers, urging the need for individuals to have a legally binding right to have automated decisions made about them explained, is helping shape how the new EU data protection regulations will be implemented

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Making simulations simpler

Software engineers at the Turing, in collaboration with partners at Imperial College and UCL, have developed a user interface which aims to make running simulations more user-friendly, for both academic and industrial communities