Alan Turing Institute Courses

Turing Lecture - AI for Innovative Social Work, Desmond U. Patton

Exploring the intersection of AI, social media, and youth violence, focusing on how digital expressions impact vulnerable communities and the potential for data science to address social inequalities.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Turing Lecture - Is Education AI-Ready?

Exploring AI's role in education post-COVID, discussing current applications, future potential, and recommendations for an AI-ready education system to enable all learners to achieve their full potential.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Using Data Science to Do Good, With Rayid Ghani

Explore how AI and data science can address social challenges, from preventing lead poisoning to reducing police misconduct, while tackling explainability and fairness issues in high-impact public policy projects.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
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• Free Video

The Companies We Keep - In Search of "Shady" Corporate Activity

Explore the world's first network graph mapping UK corporate ownership data, built to uncover potential corrupt practices and improve transparency in business structures.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
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• Free Video

Challenging Power in Data Science

Explore ethical data practices through a feminist lens, examining power dynamics, classification systems, and invisible labor to create more equitable data science approaches.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Turing Lecture - Provably Beneficial AI

Exploring the future of AI capabilities, potential risks, and the need for a fundamental reorientation in AI development to ensure systems are beneficial for humanity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Earth Day Turing Lecture - AI, Because There Is No Planet B

Climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh presents scientific evidence on climate change, explores potential solutions, and discusses COVID-19's impact on the environment in this Earth Day lecture on sustainability and the climate crisis.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Machine Learning - From Black Boxes to White Boxes - Mihaela van der Schaar

Exploring innovative approaches to make complex machine learning models interpretable and trustworthy, especially in medical applications, for diverse users including clinicians and patients.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Data-Driven Regularisation for Solving Inverse Problems - Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Turing/Cambridge

Explores data-driven regularizers for inverse imaging problems, combining model-based and data-driven approaches. Covers bilevel optimization and deep neural networks for image processing.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Implicit Regularization for General Norms and Errors - Lorenzo Rosasco, MIT

Explores implicit regularization in optimization methods, focusing on stability in estimation processes for non-Euclidean norms and non-quadratic errors, with emphasis on accelerated techniques.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Statistical Physics and Learning - Florent Krzakala, Sorbonne Université

Explore the intersection of statistical physics and machine learning, examining algorithmic paradigms, high-dimensional models, and cross-fertilization between statistics and computer science in the era of Big Data.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Machine Learning Literacy for Designers and Engineers

Machine learning's universal approach to phenomena inverts expertise from answering known questions to asking good ones. Explore applications in structural design, urban analysis, and real estate, with insights on ML's impact across engineering and desig…

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
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• Free Video

Causal Inference for Individualized Treatment Effects - From Theory to Algorithms

Explore cutting-edge applications of causal inference in data science for individualized treatment effects, bridging theory and practical algorithms in economic research and policy-making.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
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• Free Video

Empowering Autistic People Through Citizen Science

Explore how citizen science can empower autistic individuals and create inclusive public spaces. Learn about ethical data sharing and city design improvements to enhance the lives of autistic people.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Efficient and Effective Calibration of Spatio-Temporal Models - Dan Williamson & James Salter, Exeter

Explore efficient calibration techniques for spatio-temporal models, focusing on uncertainty quantification and Gaussian Process emulation in complex physical systems like climate and natural disasters.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video