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The Turing Podcast is an exciting new podcast from The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

The Turing Podcast The Alan Turing Institute

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The Turing Podcast is an exciting new podcast from The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

    AI for Cyber Defence (AICD) research centre

    AI for Cyber Defence (AICD) research centre

    To what extent can a computer network be actively managed and defended by intelligent autonomous agents?
    In this episode, Ed and Anneca talk to Vasilios Mavroudis and Chris Hicks explore this question and more. 
    Vas and Chris lead the Turing’s AI for Cyber Defence (AICD) research centre which seeks to fundamentally transform the way in which we secure digital systems through the development and application of cutting edge, deep-learning based approaches to intelligent agents. 
     
    Find more information about AICD here
     
    Don't forget to explore our shorter AI in the news podcast - too long didn't read

    • 46 min
    Our AI Futures - Lord Chris Holmes and the AI Bill

    Our AI Futures - Lord Chris Holmes and the AI Bill

    On this episode of The Turing Podcast Bea and Anneca are joined by Lord Chris Holmes, Britain’s most successful Paralympic swimmer and an active member of the House of Lords with a policy focus on digital technology for public good.
    Connect with Lord Holmes on  Linked In
     
    Explore our regular news AI news podcast, too long didn't read

    • 33 min
    Project Bluebird: Revolutionising Air Traffic Control with AI and digital twins

    Project Bluebird: Revolutionising Air Traffic Control with AI and digital twins

    The Turing Podcast revisits Project Bluebird; a fascinating collaboration aiming to solve some of the biggest and most complex problems in air traffic control with digital twins and AI.
    Join Ed as he sits down with Nick Pepper of The Alan Turing Institute, George De Ath of the University of Exeter and Marc Thomas of NATS - the team behind Project Bluebird.
    First featured on our podcast in 2020, the team now provides a progress update at the midpoint mark. Learn how they are developing innovative AI to train a digital twin air traffic controller with the aim of enhancing aviation safety and functionality, and what the challenges are, integrating human expertise with machine intelligence.

    • 55 min
    AI for Cyber Defence

    AI for Cyber Defence

    This week the podcast, the hosts are joined by Kate Highnam and Myles Foley, both of whom are PhD candidates at Imperial College London working at the intersection of machine learning and cyber security. Kate and Myles were part of a team who last year won the CAGE challenge (Cyber Autonomy Gym for Experimentation), with their reinforcement learning-based solution. We chat about how advances in AI are being used to address challenges in cyber security, and what can and cannot be automated.

    • 52 min
    Building Digital Tools for Polar Research

    Building Digital Tools for Polar Research

    This week on The Turing Podcast we chat about some of the research going on in the collaborations between the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and The Alan Turing Institute, including efforts to automate the route planning of ships in polar regions, and the building of a digital twin for Antarctica!  The hosts are joined by Dr Scott Hosking and Dr Jonathan Smith. Scott is Co-Director for the Alan Turing Institute Research and Innovation Cluster in Digital Twins, as well as the founder and leader of the BAS AI lab. Jonathan is a Principal Research Scientist, also at the BAS AI lab.

    • 39 min
    Data Science for the Arts and Humanities

    Data Science for the Arts and Humanities

    This week the hosts chat with Dr Katie McDonough and Dr Daniel Wilson. Katie is a lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Lancaster University and a Senior Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. Daniel is a Turing Research Fellow and historian of science and technology. The episode covers their research at the Turing and the growing intersection between the worlds of data science and the humanities and arts, with a focus on the MapReader software developed explore and analyse maps (and other images) at scale.

    • 50 min

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