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« Back to NewsResearchers develop world's first ultra-fast photonic computing processor, using polarisation
16 June 2022
Computer science Functional materials Innovation and Enterprise Materials science Research
The innovative technique, developed in the Department of Materials, uses multiple polarisation channels to carry out parallel processing – enhancing computing density by several orders over conventional electronic chips.
MPLS researchers make the Forbes Europe '30 under 30' list
4 May 2022
Award Computer science Engineering Maths Statistics
Four early-career researchers have been recognised by Forbes' 2022 list, which is intended to illustrate the power that young entrepreneurs and leaders have to transform business and society.
Government gives £15 million to build software and computer systems at the heart of a new international telescope system
12 April 2022
Computer science Engineering Funding Physics Space
Six institutions, including the University of Oxford, are leading efforts to deliver computational systems that will enable the world’s largest radio telescope
Electric vehicles vulnerable to attack that prevents charging
29 March 2022
Researchers Richard Baker and Sebastian Köhler (with Ivan Martinovic) from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and Martin Strohmeier of armasuisse Science + Technology, have discovered a cyber attack that allows individual vehicles to be disrupted in a stealthy way, or even entire fleets to be denied charging en masse.
From The Conversation: How to investigate when a robot causes an accident – and why it’s important that we do
24 March 2022
AI and data science Computer science Research The Conversation
Keri Grieman, Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science, writes about the 'ethical black box' for robots.
New £3m EPSRC-funded programme in Robust and Reliable Quantum Computing - RoaRQ
22 March 2022
Computer science Funding Materials science Physics Quantum
The programme will establish a cross-disciplinary community of researchers in quantum computing and computer science, who will collaborate to address the global challenge of delivering quantum computing that is robust, reliable, and trustworthy.
DeepMind donation creates 12 new research internships in artificial intelligence and machine learning
1 March 2022
Computer science Engineering Equality and Diversity Funding Maths Statistics
The University’s flagship UNIQ+ graduate access programme for students from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds will expand further in 2022 thanks to a generous donation from leading British artificial intelligence company DeepMind.
Royal Society cautions against online censorship of scientific misinformation
19 January 2022
Governments and social media platforms should not rely on content removal for combatting harmful scientific misinformation online, according to a report today from the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Oxford Professor of Computing Science, was on the working group for the report.
Key surveys overestimate COVID-19 vaccination rates in the USA
9 December 2021
COVID-19 Computer science Research Statistics
Estimates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the USA based on large surveys that are used to guide policy-making decisions tend to overestimate the number of vaccinated individuals, research published in Nature suggests.
Tracking endangered sea turtles with hardware the size of a pound coin
9 December 2021
Computer science Engineering Food security & biodiversity Research
As part of their research project Amanda Matthes and Jonas Beuchert, supervised by Professor Alex Rogers, developed ‘SnapperGPS’, a low-cost, low-power wildlife tracking system based on satellite navigation. In summer 2021, they deployed it for the first time on wild animals: endangered loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde.
Building safer AI for the next era of transformation
2 December 2021
AI and data science Computer science
An article by Professor Marta Kwiatkowska, Department of Computer Science, for the Capgemini Research Institute.
DeepMind offers five scholarships at Oxford University for under-represented students
1 December 2021
Computer science Equality and Diversity
DeepMind, the leading British artificial intelligence company, has renewed its commitment to supporting students at the University of Oxford following the success of its scholarship programme for under-represented groups in AI.
Oxford Robotics and AI push new boundaries with Amazon Web Services
29 November 2021
AI and data science Business and Industry Computer science Engineering Innovation and Enterprise
Oxford’s leading AI and robotics scientists are entering a new, exciting phase of collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
New software predicts the movements of large land animals
3 November 2021
Biology Computer science Food security & biodiversity Research Zoology
New software can help determine the movements of large wild animals, thereby minimising conflicts with people.
Oxford ranked first in the world for Computer Science
6 October 2021
For the fourth year running the University of Oxford has been ranked first in the world for Computer Science in the Times Higher Education 2022 World University Rankings.
Turing Fellowships for over 30 Oxford academics
30 September 2021
AI and data science Award Computer science Earth sciences Engineering Maths Statistics
Thirty-three University of Oxford researchers have been named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year. 23 of the fellows come from MPLS departments.
Peering into the Moon's permanently shadowed regions with AI
27 September 2021
AI and data science Computer science Research
The Moon’s 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.
Global leaders named as Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellows
30 July 2021
AI and data science Computer science Engineering
Five internationally-recognised researchers have been appointed as the first Turing Artificial Intelligence (AI) World-Leading Researcher Fellows.
Artificial Intelligence pioneered at Oxford to detect floods launches into space
1 July 2021
AI and data science Computer science Engineering Research Space
A new technology, developed by Oxford researchers, in partnership with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Φ-lab, will pilot the detection of flood events from space. It was deployed on hardware on D-Orbit’s upcoming ‘Wild Ride’ mission being launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, 30 June, 20.00 UK time.