Posts Tagged ‘data science’
Childlight Publishes Groundbreaking Global Index on Child Exploitation and Abuse Prevalence
More than 300 million children a year are victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse, say Scottish university researchers behind the first global estimate of the scale of the crisis. With files containing sexual images of children reported once every second, the authors said pupils “in every classroom, in every school, in every country” are…
Read MoreEvent review: FutureScot Cloud, Data & AI Conference
EPCC’s Donald Scobbie writes about this recent event in Glasgow, which included a keynote talk by EPCC Director Mark Parsons. Digital transformation This conference addressed some big topics: service delivery transformation, public sector data management, migration to cloud platform services, and use of AI and automation to support service delivery. The keynote speakers laid out…
Read MoreBayes Centre welcomes new director Prof Ruth King
The Bayes Centre, the University of Edinburgh’s Innovation Hub for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence is delighted to announce that Professor Ruth King, an international leader within the field of statistics, will take up the position of Director in August 2023. Professor Ruth King is the Thomas Bayes’ Chair of Statistics in the School of…
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