Press Releases
Vaccine attitudes detected in tweets by AI model
People’s attitudes towards vaccines can now be detected from their social media posts by an intelligent AI model, developed by researchers at the University of Warwick.
University of Warwick names 37 researchers who become Turing Fellows this academic year
A total of 37 University of Warwick researchers from across the fields of mathematics, life sciences, statistics, computer science, business, medicine and engineering have been named as Fellows of the Alan Turing Institute this year.
Boundary-spanning research centre launches six new projects
From improving mapping of species at risk to analysing the uptake of COVID-19 test and tracing apps by the public, researchers at the University of Warwick's Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) are launching six new projects investigating how new technologies are shaping society, and demonstrating how data science can tackle current social, political and ecological challenges.
Reading the past like an open book – researchers use text to measure two hundred years of happiness
Was there such a thing as ‘the good old days’ when people were happier? Are current Government policies more or less likely to increase their citizens’ feelings of wellbeing? Using innovative methods researchers have built a new index that uses data from books and newspaper to track levels of national happiness from 1820. Their research could help governments to make better decisions about policy priorities.
The University of Warwick and Turing collaborate to bring international summer fellowship opportunity to the UK
The 2019 edition of the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Summer Fellowship will feature a new international site in the UK - the University of Warwick, through a collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute and the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. The seventh year of DSSG, taking place in Summer 2019 is now accepting applications for prospective fellows, technical mentors, project managers, and project partners.
Professor Stephen Jarvis appointed to the Turing’s Board of Trustees
Professor Stephen Jarvis, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Warwick, has been appointed to the Alan Turing Institute’s Board of Trustees.