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We aim to enthuse and inspire everyone to learn about data science and AI, explore cutting-edge innovations and the people behind them, and participate in the conversation. We invite you to LEAP in and discover the magic.
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Driverless vehicles
Join Aoife and Torty as they chat to Professor Sarah Sharples about the future and current state of the technology and AI around driverless vehicles. Sarah, chief scientific advisor for the department for transport recently gave a Turing lecture at the Royal Institute, discussing the topic. In this podcast, she’ll be answering a range of different questions that weren’t answered from the audience at the lecture.
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Footballers on Twitter: What is fair game?
This week we are joined by Manchester United women's footballer Aoife Mannion, Author and CEO of Glitch Seyi Akiwowo and Turing Researcher Pica Johansson to discuss online abuse suffered by football players and other athletes online.
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How to communicate science
We chat about all things science communication with two Turing colleagues: Ethics Research Fellow Mhairi Aitken and Science Writer James Lloyd. They discuss why we need science communicators in the first place, what makes for good communication, and what specific challenges are associated with communicating data science and AI research to the general public
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Robert Winston on science and the public in the COVID-19 era
We are joined by Robert Winston to talk about engaging with the public about the science of combatting COVID-19. Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London, Robert has also had an incredible career in television, presenting the BBC’s The Secret Life of Twins, Child of Our Time and the BAFTA award-winning The Human Body
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Nicol Turner Lee: Bridging the digital divide
The hosts were joined by Dr Nicol Turner Lee to discuss her research on public policy, designed to enable equitable access to technology and digital equity. We talk about themes in her recent book on the Digitally Invisible and the real-life consequences of the growing digital divide
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You don’t need anybody’s permission to be a great mathematician
In this episode we talk to Dr Nira Chamberlain, president of The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. We talk with Nira about Black History Month, mathematicians though history that have inspired him and how mathematics can cross racial, geographical and cultural boundaries
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Careers in data science with Accenture
This episode features a special roundtable discussion with our strategic partner Accenture about career options in the data science sector. Our hosts were joined by three influential figures in AI and data science: Henrietta Ridley (Data Science Manager, Accenture), Alice Aspinall (Senior Manager, Mudano) and Kirstie Whitaker (the Turing’s Director of Tools, Practices and Systems)
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"The problems of AI" with James Geddes
The hosts chat with Dr James Geddes, Principial Research Data Scientist in the Research Engineering Group at the Turing. The discussion revolves around an all-important question: What actually is AI? James breaks down three categories of computer programs that could be considered AI: simulations, symbolic AI and machine learning, and the hosts debate which, if any of these, are really intelligent
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In conversation with Sue Black
In this episode the hosts were joined by Professor Sue Black to discuss her inspirational life story and career, as well as the initiatives she has set up to encourage more women into the tech sector and her hopes for the future.
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Pick up a postcard from the Penguin Post Office in Antarctica
Postcards designed by London schoolchildren will be stocked in the world’s most southerly post office
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The Northern Data Debates – Gaming the system, the data science of sports
Join us in-person in Newcastle at the award-winning Catalyst Building theatre, or virtually from the comfort of your own home, for a series of five Data Debates starting in April and running throughout 2022. The Debates are aimed at the general public and engage with complex questions with real-world relevance, including decision-making, artificial intelligence, the workforce of the future, health, data, and fairness. Catch up on the previous series of Data Debates, a collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute and the British Library.
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The Turing Lectures: How to speak whale
In our first Turing Lecture for everyone aged 11+, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill reveals how a close encounter with a humpback whale inspired him to find out whether we could ever talk to these ocean giants. We invite you to submerge yourself in Tom’s underwater world, hear about the amazing advances scientists are making in decoding animal communication, and be rumbled by the voices of our deep-sea orca-stra! This event is organised in collaboration with the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
