The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science, headquartered at the British Library.
Five founding universities – Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and Warwick – and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council created The Alan Turing Institute in 2015 in order to answer a national need for investment in data science research.
Our mission is to make great leaps in data science research in order to change the world for the better.
We are committed to:
Research excellence
We want to be the best. Research excellence is the foundation of the Institute: the sharpest minds from the data science community investigating the hardest questions. We work with integrity and dedication.
Driving impact
Our researchers collaborate across disciplines to generate impact, both through theoretical development and application to real-world problems. We are fueled by the desire to innovate and add value.
Pioneering a new science
Data science will change the world. We are pioneers; training the next generation of data science leaders, shaping the public conversation, and pushing the boundaries of this new science for the public good.
Our first step in forming the Institute was to undertake a peer-reviewed scientific scoping process to assess the data science landscape and appetite for engagement across the UK and internationally. With over 100 proposals submitted in the summer of 2015, we invited and held more than 30 workshops, summarised in our Scoping Workshop report.
This process, along with meeting over 100 leaders from the private, public and third sectors to identify relevant problems, has been crucial in defining our core research strengths – mathematical representations, inference and learning, systems and platforms, and understanding human behaviour – and the priority sectors we will focus our research on – engineering, technology, defence and security, financial services, smart cities and health and well-being.
With Dr Scott A. Hale, Dr Jonathan Bright, Dr Chico Camargo, and Private: Dr Graham McNeill
This presentation, hosted by the Alan Turing Institute focuses on using crowd-sourced data, such as OpenStreetMap and Waze, to improve traffic models and better understand the factors contributing to traffic jams and other traffic issues.
With Dr Scott A. Hale
In the Alan Turing Institute Fellow Talks, Dr Scott A. Hale talks about social data science and its application to bilingualism.
With Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta gives a talk at the Alan Turing Institute on 'The Problem of Governance in Distributed Ledger Technologies'
13 May 2020
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo has been appointed as Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Ethics Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute.
17 January 2017
The Alan Turing Institute has today announced the membership of The Alan Turing Institute’s Data Ethics Group. It will be chaired by Luciano Floridi, the OII's Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information.
14 November 2016
A paper published today in Philosophical Transactions A by Luciano Floridi and Mariarosaria Taddeo asks ‘what is data ethics?’ and outlines the context behind this emerging branch of research.