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ATI@Durham Network

Durham@Turing

Join us at the: MEDES Digital Humanities Rutgers University (US) – Durham University (UK) – Artificial Intelligence in Digital Humanities meeting:

Today: Monday:

11.30-12.30 presentations

Kamal Badreshany, Dan Lawrence

Fraser Riddell and Michael Conlin

Amanda Hsieh

1.30-2.30 presentations

Anna Leone, Noura Al Moubayed and Tom Winterbottom

Giani Stefano 

Best wishes,

Alexandra

Topic: Claire Warwick’s Zoom Meeting

Time: Oct 10, 2022 09:30 AM London

Join Zoom Meeting

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/4271013273?pwd=U1czQmkzQVpHZGZNZitkSnB6ZytOUT09

Meeting ID: 427 101 3273

Passcode: 590288

We’re proud to announce that we have been named among the first-ever successful applicants to The Alan Turing Institute’s Network Development Awards, in recognition of our proven research excellence.

The award will enable us to significantly build on our expertise in Data Science, AI, and benefit from active involvement with the Alan Turing Institute (ATI).

Led by Professor Alexandra I. Cristea (Alexandra I. Cristea | The Alan Turing Institute) from the Department of Computer Science, with co-I Professor Brian Castellani, Director of the Durham Research Methods Centre, Durham@ATI will continue to build on ongoing interdisciplinary cross-faculty work which recognises the importance of data as a key skill in many future roles; creating an engaged and diverse community working across all stages of their career, creating ambassadors for AI-data research at Durham. Durham@ATI will built upon and expand existing regional networks, such as the N8 Digital Humanities and N8 Digital Health networks. It will also enable engagement in the potential opportunities and initiatives available across the Turing network – to deliver research collaborations with a range of partners. Durham@ATI will organise workshops on Data Science, AI and the Epistemological Engine, AI and Data in Education, Digital Humanities, AI and Data Science in Health, boosting and promoting Durham research in these important areas.

Durham@ATI will build upon and expand existing regional networks, such as the N8 Digital Humanities and N8 Digital Health networks. It will also enable engagement in the potential opportunities and initiatives available across the Turing network – to deliver research collaborations with a range of partners. Durham@ATI will organise workshops on Data Science, AI and the Epistemological Engine, AI and Data in Education, Digital Humanities, AI and Data Science in Health, boosting and promoting Durham research in these important areas.

Events coming up

Delighted to announce Durham@ATI’s first major event, in conjunction with the Alan Turing Institute, the Artificial Intelligence in Education Society, the Educational Data Mining Society, and the Council of Europe: the Alan Turing AIED/EDM Networking Event on the the 27th of July 2022, in conjunction with the https://educationaldatamining.org/edm2022/ and  AIED2022 (durham.ac.uk) conferences:

Alan Turing Intelligence in Education Event, Wednesday, 27.07.2022, 4:20pm-6:40pm

Venue: Teaching and Learning Centre (Hybrid event)

See Agenda here.

Developing strength

Durham@ATI will reinforce two areas of strength in Durham: Digital Humanities (related to Humanities and data science | The Alan Turing Institute) and Data Science & AI applied to Education – and our expertise in Bias in AI and health. This builds on Durham’s strong tradition in delivering an interdisciplinary approach to its research, teaching and learning.

The funding will also support us as we continue to challenge the traditional approaches to Data Science, enabling the development of new projects and focusing on areas of national strategic importance.

Benefits to science across our region

The major benefit is a boost in the research in AI and Data Science for Durham and across the North East. It also significantly links these research areas more widely across the UK as well as internationally via the ATI. The exposure to ATI and its activities and networks will allow individual as well as collaborative, collective research at Durham to expand, diversify, increase its impact at national and international level.

The Durham@ATI network will host activities open to the wider data science and AI research and innovation community and local and regional communities, with a view to forming new links and collaborations, as well as sustaining the network for the future.

As a further boost to the economy, working together with other departments within the University and with national and international partners through the ATI, will enable us to exploit future funding opportunities and reinvest into the region.

Future opportunities

The award will help us to lead quality research and support a number of our existing Institutes to become national and globally recognised.

Durham@ATI will also bring in and support new research areas, complementary to ATI research, and crucial for futureproofing employability skills and careers.