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15/03/2022

Data experts are analysing UKRI’s digital estate to set out targets for net zero computing within the next two decades.
Scientists will recommend a plan to ensure the UK’s research and innovation sector reaches carbon neutrality, with the proposal ensuring digital computing tools from supercomputers to phones will reach net zero by 2040.

The novel £1.9m project will strengthen UKRI’s journey towards sustainability and offer a roadmap to deliver net zero computing and an entire carbon neutral digital research infrastructure within the next twenty years.

The project has been funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.

Towards net zero computing
Across the nine organisations that comprise UKRI, there is a significant range of computing and mobile technology, or digital research infrastructure.

In order to facilitate UKRI’s net zero goal, data scientists from Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) are utilising a range of techniques to map out the organisation’s digital infrastructure.

Then, by employing these techniques, UKRI will establish the best course of action to cut carbon emissions from data generation, analysis, storage, and dissemination.

The project will cover all the UKRI-owned and majority-funded infrastructure, everything from the national supercomputing centres to the thousands of smartphones used by staff.

15/03/2022

The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has revealed the necessary steps to develop a world-leading AI assurance ecosystem in the UK.
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is the government expert body facilitating trustworthy innovation in data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It has now created a roadmap that is essential to constructing a world-leading AI assurance ecosystem in the UK.

Building an AI assurance ecosystem
The roadmap, which was outlined as a commitment in the UK’s National AI Strategy, has been developed after requests from public bodies to construct an ecosystem of tools and services that is capable of detecting and alleviating the variety of threats presented by AI and drive trustworthy adoption. It responds to one of the biggest issues in AI governance identified by international organisations, including the Global Partnership on AI, OECD and World Economic Forum.

Assurance services, such as audit, certification, and impact assessments, are common in other sectors, such as financial services and cybersecurity. These tools make certain that complex products are reliable and compatible with regulation, enhancing organisations’ confidence to invest, as well as providing greater outcomes for consumers. However, currently, assurance services for AI are relatively undeveloped.

Creating a roadmap
The roadmap, which is the first of its kind, brings consistency to a disjointed and nascent ecosystem. It lays out the functions and duties of various stakeholders, and identifies six priority areas for action:

Generate demand for reliable and effective assurance across the AI supply chain, improving understanding of risks, as well as accountabilities for mitigating them
Build a dynamic, competitive AI assurance market that provides a range of effective services and tools
Develop standards that provide a common language for AI assurance
Build an accountable AI assurance profession to ensure that AI assurance services are also trustworthy and high quality
Support organisations to meet regulatory obligations by setting requirements that can be assured against
Improve links between industry and independent researchers so that researchers can help develop assurance techniques and identify AI risks

15/03/2022

Professor Dalton Tay of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) from the School of Materials Science and Engineering and School of Biological Sciences, led research investigating how to repurpose electronic waste (e-waste) as an alternative to the plastics used in laboratory cell culture containers, such as petri dishes.
E-waste repurposed
E-waste accounts for approximately 20% of the 50 million tonnes of waste produced worldwide each year. The plastics found in this waste are rarely recycled due to their complex composition and hazardous additives.

For the study, Tay and a team from Singapore–CEA Alliance for Research in Circular Economy (SCARCE), gathered e-waste plastics that had been collected by a local recycling facility. Three different kinds of plastic were chosen for their surface variability. To test the viability of using e-waste plastics for cell cultures, the NTU team seeded stem cells onto 1.1cm-wide circular discs of sterilised e-waste plastics.

The circular discs were assessed a week later, and the scientists found that more than 95% of live and healthy stem cells that had seeded on the e-waste plastics remained. This is a result comparable to the experimental control of stem cells grown on commercially available cell culture plates made of polystyrene. As well as this, it was observed by the researchers that the stem cells grown on the e-waste plastics also retained their ability to differentiate. This is a process in which stem cells become specialised cells with a more specific function, such as blood cells, brain cells, heart muscle cells or bone cells.

15/03/2022

The government has released the National Cyber Strategy 2022 which sets out how to protect UK cyber interests and promote the UK’s interests in the ever-changing online world.
The UK government has announced the publication of its novel National Cyber Strategy that lays out how the UK will consolidate its position as a global cyber power and protect itself from cyber threats.

Protecting UK cyber interests
Cyber is revolutionising the way we live our lives and thus our approach to national security. As a result, the UK is taking a new, thorough approach to reinforce its position as an accountable and democratic cyber power, capable of promoting and protecting our interests in and through cyberspace.

The National Cyber Strategy builds on the advancements made in the field over the last five years which has seen the UK cyber security sector grow exponentially, with 1,400 businesses generating £8.9bn in revenue last year, as well as providing 46,700 skilled jobs and attracting a large amount of overseas investment.

By implementing this new strategy, the government is calling on all areas of society to play their part in strengthening the UK’s economic and strategic strengths in cyberspace. This means the necessity of more diversity in the workforce, levelling up the cyber sector across all regions in the UK, escalating offensive and defensive cyber facilities and focusing on cyber security in the workplace, boardrooms and digital supply chains.

This National Cyber Strategy reinforces the UK’s cyber security so we can follow and endorse our interests with confidence. It is anticipated to keep us ahead of our adversaries and bolster our capability to act in cyberspace, as well as our capability to shape tomorrow’s technologies so they are safe, secure and open.

15/03/2022

Professor Yaochu Jin is conducting research into nature-inspired artificial intelligence at Bielefeld University, in an attempt to develop AI capabilities.
Researchers have long investigated how artificial intelligence (AI) can draw on principles from nature to solve complex problems. When it comes to identifying patterns in large amounts of data, AI is faster and more capable than humans. However, AI has difficulties when it is required to make connections or deal with uncertainties.

Through evolution, development, and learning, nature has developed more practical problem-solving solutions. Artificial Intelligence professor, Yaochu Jin, at Bielefeld University (BU) is researching how such principles can be transferred to AI.

Professor Jin will be continuing with his previous research on nature-inspired artificial intelligence at BU and looking for applications of a nature-inspired and self-organised AI. “My goal is to understand and borrow successful mechanisms from nature and transfer them into artificial intelligence for problem-solving,” explained Jin. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is supporting Yaochu Jin’s research with prize funds amounting to 3.5 million euros over a period of five years.

AI improvement research developments
Jin is currently setting up his research laboratory at the Faculty of Technology and assembling his research team to study nature-inspired AI. Having a team with an interdisciplinary orientation is particularly important as it enables him to bring together approaches from different disciplines such as computer science, biology, and medicine.

He also emphasises the requirement for international cooperation in his research. For example, he is looking forward to research visits from international scientists, such as former students from China, and researchers from the University of Surrey, where he worked before moving to Bielefeld. “I want to do something that is currently not the main approach to artificial intelligence, and I want to find out more about possible applications that have yet to be explored sufficiently,” explained Jin.

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