Episodes
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Diagnosing Dementia with AI
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Join Bea and Anneca as they discuss the potential and current AI tools being used around treating and diagnosing illnesses such as dementia, with Zoe Kourtzi.
Zoe is Professor of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. Her research aims to develop predictive models of neurodegenerative disease and mental health with translational impact in early diagnosis and personalised interventions.
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Making the world add up with Tim Harford
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 2023
In this week’s Turing Podcast, Ed chats with Tim Harford about the themes from his 2020 book “How to Make the World Add Up”, which include thinking about the ways statistics and numbers are (mis)used in the media and what we can do about it. Tim is an economist and presenter of the BBC radio show “More or less”.
Friday Apr 21, 2023
The Coffee Pod - Hussein Rappel
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Welcome to the Coffee Pod! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear about the people behind the project. Each episode you’ll be listening to a different colleague, their background, career and most importantly… how they like their coffee.
In this episode, Bea is speaking to Hussein Rappel. Hussein has worked on the PDRA on Digital Twins in Infrastructure and Construction project in the Complex Systems Engineering theme.
Friday Apr 21, 2023
The Coffee Pod - Malvika Sharan
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Welcome to another Coffee Pod episode! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear about the people behind the project. Each episode you’ll be listening to a different colleague, their background, career and most importantly… how they like their coffee.
Today Bea is speaking to Malvika Sharan, a senior researcher. Malvika works on Open Research in the Tools, Practices and Systems theme.
Friday Apr 21, 2023
The Coffee Pod - Fernando Benitez
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Welcome to another Coffee Pod episode! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear about the people behind the project. Each episode you’ll be listening to a different colleague, their background, career and most importantly… how they like their coffee.
In this episode, Bea is joined with Fernando Benitez, a research associate.
Fernando worked on PDRA - the Spatial Modelling project in the Shocks and the Resilience cross-theme project.
Friday Apr 21, 2023
The Coffee Pod - Tom Andersson
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Welcome to another episode of the Coffee Pod Podcast! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear about the people behind the project. Each episode you’ll be listening to a different colleague, their background, career and most importantly… how they like their coffee.
In this episode, Bea catches up with Tom Andersson, a data scientist.
Tom's worked on the Turing/British Antarctic Survey on Environmental models: Bridging the spatial scales, from surface sensors to satellite sensors in the Environment and Sustainability cross-theme project.
Friday Apr 21, 2023
The Coffee Pod - Domenic DiFrancesco
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Welcome to another episode of the Coffee Pod podcast! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear about the people behind the project. Each episode you’ll be listening to a different colleague, their background, career and most importantly… how they like their coffee.
Joining Bea this week is Domenic DiFrancesco, a Turing Research Fellow.
Domenic's worked on the project PDRA Digital Twins for Fleets and Supply Chain Management in the Ecosystems of Digital Twins cross-theme.
Friday Apr 14, 2023
How to Speak Whale
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Following Tom Mustill’s popular Turing Lecture at the Royal Institution, How to Speak Whale, Tom joins Bea and Jo to catch up on the latest advancements in communication between humans and animals.
This lively edition of the Turing podcast covers a great variety of subjects, including some of Tom’s favourite (and surprising) whale facts, and whether attempting to chat with aliens should be prioritised over speaking with animals.
A biologist and filmmaker, Tom has recently also turned writer. His debut book, How To Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication, was selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of The Year.
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
The Coffee Pod - Ruoyun Hui
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Welcome to the first Coffee Pod episode!
A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear about the people behind the project. Each episode you’ll be listening to a different colleague, their background, career and most importantly… how they like their coffee.
Joining podcast host Bea this week is Ruoyun Hui, a postdoctoral research associate at The Alan Turing Institute.
This series is hosted by Bea Costa Gomes and produced by Luca Lane. The music has been produced by Spiders Eat Vinyl.
Friday Mar 10, 2023
AI in the financial sector
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Friday Mar 10, 2023
With Dr Adrian Weller (Programme Director and Turing Fellow) and Kate Platonova (Group Chief Data Analytics Officer at HSBC), Ed Chalstrey discusses how AI is being used in financial services and what data is useful in banking today.