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Our AI UK 2024 Top Picks
AI UK returned for 2024 with Team LIDA taking a field trip to Westminster to find out what was top of the AI agenda for The Alan Turing Institute. With representatives from the Data Analytics Team, Research & Innovation and Operations, everyone had a clear favourite from the the two-day event, from national defence and...
Celebrating innovative LIDA women
Research finds that certain groups (such as women, those from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities) are underrepresented in the data workforce. A lack of workforce diversity has the potential to amplify existing inequalities and prejudices. According to a Parliamentary report “Data science skills in the UK workforce” (UK Parliament Post)... The 2020 Ipsos...
Fair Attribution Guidelines - LIDA staff, products and services
The University recently published its Fair Attribution Guidelines. The guidance recognises the importance of technical, technologists and skills specialists in conducting research and innovation within the University, and that the quality of the outputs is not only enhanced through the equipment and services available, but also by the teams of talented support staff helping deliver the...
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Perceptual reality is not as it seems
Host: Carlo Campagnoli Speaker: Fulvio Domini, Professor at Brown University (Dept of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences.) Abstract: VR and XR technologies...
Understanding complex inequalities through language research
Language@Leeds is a University-wide interdisciplinary network for language research. Our work tackles key societal questions through the rigorous study of...
Unlocking your most sensitive data for remote access across the UK
Speaker: Adam Keeley, Data Analytics Team Manager, LIDA Summary: Research at the University of Leeds using personal and sensitive data...