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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Department of Engineering Science have developed an algorithm that conceals sensitive information so effectively that it is impossible to detect that anything has been hidden.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA study from Save the Elephants and University of Oxford researchers used high-resolution satellite imagery to investigate how plant diversity affects elephant movements.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford is one of nine leading research universities around the world selected to deliver a new global postdoctoral fellowship programme to drive the innovative use of artificial intelligence across science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \n'How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do?', asks Oxford DPhil candidate in Engineering Science, Michael K Cohen, and his co-author Marcus Hutter from the Australian National University, in this article which highlights the potential risks of relying on the 'reinforcement learning' approach in AI research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new collaboration with the Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology in India (known as Digital University Kerala or DUK).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMichael K. Cohen, graduate student in the Department of Engineering Science, writes about AI, chess and the difficulty of identifying cheating in an article first published on the Conversation.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWhatever Hollywood might say, AI is not all about killer robots in a far off future. It is more mundane, more everyday - and much more ubiquitous. And thinking it just belongs in a sci-fi film is dangerous, since this leads to a sense it is not relevant or that it is even unreal. An interview with Professor Ursula Martin of the Mathematical Institute.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers in the Department of Computer Science, working with colleagues from Bogazici University in Turkey, have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) system that enables autonomous vehicles to achieve safer and more reliable navigation, especially in adverse weather.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew AI uses associative learning techniques rather than AI\u2019s traditional neural networks to challenge the conventional wisdom that artificial neurons and synapses are the sole building blocks of AI.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nEleven MPLS researchers have been recognised in this year\u2019s MPLS Impact Awards, which showcase research impact across the division and help us to identify examples of impact excellence that will help us to prepare the ground for future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions and similar exercises.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nRoyal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Dr Tingting Zhu, has been awarded Royal Society funding to lead an international collaboration that aims to develop an open-source platform for cardiac monitoring, using machine-learning.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nKeri Grieman, Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science, writes about the 'ethical black box' for robots.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAn article by Professor Marta Kwiatkowska, Department of Computer Science, for the Capgemini Research Institute.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFor the first time, mathematicians have partnered with artificial intelligence to suggest and prove new mathematical theorems.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford\u2019s leading AI and robotics scientists are entering a new, exciting phase of collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMethod will allow researchers and wildlife conservationists to significantly cut back on time and resources spent analysing animal behaviour in video footage.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThirty-three University of Oxford researchers have been named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year. 23 of the fellows come from MPLS departments.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nRobotics researchers from the Oxford Robotics Institute in the Department of Engineering Science have contributed to the winning team, Team CERBERUS, at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge - coming away with the top prize of $2m.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Moon\u2019s polar regions are home to craters and other depressions that never receive sunlight. Permanently shadowed lunar craters contain water ice but are difficult to image. An AI algorithm now provides sharper images, allowing us to see into them with high resolution for the first time.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFive internationally-recognised researchers have been appointed as the first Turing Artificial Intelligence (AI) World-Leading Researcher Fellows.
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