Articles tagged with 'Digital Futures' | University of Manchester

Scientists at The University of Manchester are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help unravel the secrets of gene mutations that can lead to babies being born with abnormalities in their hearts....

The University of Manchester is at the heart of four new projects that have received a share of millions of pounds awarded to the Greater Manchester Innovation Accelerator, to turn cutting-edge technologies into businesses in Greater Manchester – in ...

The prize of £1m will be awarded every year for the next ten years, to encourage AI research in the UK.At 11am on 21 June, 1948 the Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicked named ‘The Baby’, started running its first program. It took 52 minute...

Deadline for applications is 24th FebruaryConception X are partnering with The University of Manchester to offer free places on their 9 month national programme that helps STEM PhD students become venture scientists: developing entrepreneurship skill...

The UK government recently launched “It all adds up”, a campaign aimed at providing “simple, low or no-cost actions that households can take to immediately cut energy use and save money”. The campaign speaks to persistent calls to increase the assist...

A radioactive robot developed by The University of Manchester researchers has been awarded Best Invention in 2022 by Time Magazine....

This cross-platform event between the Digital Futures, Creative & Heritage and Data Science & AI themes and the Creative Manchester platform will highlight and map out expertise, strengths and possible directions at the intersection of AI/data scienc...

This networking and ideas generation event brought together researchers from across the University of Manchester to explore how digital technology can be used to develop innovative responses to climate change. It showcased exciting research in this a...

The March Interdisciplinary Research PS Network meeting was attended by 55 colleagues from across the University, who met virtually to hear updates and discuss synergies in areas relating to interdisciplinary activity at The University of Manchester....

The upcoming Digital Trust and Security seminar will be titled Designing technology to engage the world's thinking and presented by Wendy Jephson, CEO & Co-Founder of LetsThink and former Head of Research & Ideation - Market Technology of Nasdaq.The ...

On 10th November 2021, we hosted the CaDiR / Innovation Clubs Showcase Event.  Our speakers gave an overview of each club and projects, facilities and potential collaboration opportunities between the clubs and Digital Futures themes.Digital Futures ...

At Digital Futures, we are scoping expertise and interest at The University of Manchester at the intersection of  social media and networks and digital, in order to facilitate collaboration in research, teaching and knowledge exchange.If your researc...

At Digital Futures, we are scoping expertise and interest at The University of Manchester at the intersection of  industry 5.0  and digital, in order to facilitate collaboration in research, teaching and knowledge exchange.If your research, teaching ...

At Digital Futures, we are scoping expertise and interest at The University of Manchester at the intersection of cities/environment and digital, in order to facilitate collaboration in research, teaching and knowledge exchange.If your research, teach...

At Digital Futures, we are scoping expertise and interest at The University of Manchester at the intersection of arts/culture/heritage and digital, in order to facilitate collaboration in research, teaching and knowledge exchange.If your research, te...

The January Interdisciplinary Research PS Network meeting was attended by 50 colleagues from across the University. Sarah Barton Research Platforms Team (Digital Futures and Sustainable Futures) Strategy and Operations Manager updated on recent DF/SF...

We would really like to hear from academics at Manchester that have research interests relevant to the Digital Futures Citizens and Democracy theme. Currently we have identified the following topics as areas in which UoM has established or growing ex...

On Thursday 18th March 2021 Digital Futures hosted the event ‘From Digital Futures to Digital Present: How has the Post-Pandemic World reshaped our digital lives?’, with over 100 delegates registered to attend. The event focussed on how the Covid pan...

The Innovation Clubs align closely with Digital Futures' capabilities themes and are targeted particularly at early career researchers. Those wishing to get involved in Digital Futures Innovation Club activity can now join a dedicated Microsoft Teams...

Colleagues from across the University in interdisciplinary roles including Institute and Beacon Managers, BE and Comms and Marketing, met virtually to hear updates and discuss synergies from colleagues in areas relating to interdisciplinary activity ...

In the wake of the digital surge caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are spending a record proportion of their day on their digital devices, whilst the level of public dissatisfaction with democracy is at its highest since the mid-1990s. It see...

On 15th December 2021, we hosted the event 'What can AI do for Arts, Culture & Creativity Research at UoM?'. This was a cross-theme event between the Digital Futures Creative & Heritage and Data Science & AI themes.This exciting event highlighted and...

The University of Manchester announces a new university research partnership with GCHQ and three other universities in the North West....

Colleagues from across the University in interdisciplinary roles including Institute and Beacon Managers, BE and Comms and Marketing, met virtually to hear updates and discuss synergies from colleagues in areas relating to interdisciplinary activity ...