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ICO’s ExplAIn draft guidance and consultation

By updatesPosted on 15th January 202015th January 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, ScotlandIS News

Katy Guthrie, Head of ScotlandIS Data The ICO, in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, have published draft guidance on Explainable AI and they are looking for feedback on this. This guidance is intended to enable organisations to explain to

AI tech projects get funding to help warship crews tackle ‘information overload’

By updatesPosted on 15th January 202015th January 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, ScotlandISCyber, Industry News, Opportunity

Artificial intelligence research projects developing technologies to help warship crews cope with “information overload” will receive £1 million in funding, the Ministry of Defence has announced. Nine projects will share the money awarded through the Defence and Security Accelerator (Dasa)’s

January update from Katy on the goings on in ScotlandIS Data

By HeatherPosted on 15th January 202010th February 2020Posted in ScotlandISData

Happy New Year! Keeping it short this time as a large chunk of last month was taken up with Christmas holidays. The run up to Christmas was a busy time with the launch of our capability directories and new website

Dundee Rolls Out New High-Tech Buses Over the Weekend

By updatesPosted on 14th January 202015th January 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, MaaS Scotland, Industry News

The Xplore double deckers feature more leg room, free WiFi, USB charging and cameras instead of wing mirrors. Nine new high-tech low-emission buses that have cameras instead of wing mirrors have hit the roads of Dundee this past weekend. The

What is AWS CloudFormation?

By updatesPosted on 12th January 202015th January 2020Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

Managing applications and stacks in the cloud The sinews and muscles that make cloud computing function are just as important as the web and mobile applications that run on top of it. While many companies are focused on the features available in

UAE Space Agency launches NewSpace Innovation Programme

By updatesPosted on 12th January 202015th January 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News, Opportunity

Selected applicants will take part in a 3-month incubation programme at Krypto Labs’ headquarters in Abu Dhabi The UAE Space Agency has announced its collaboration with the Abu Dhabi-based global innovation hub, Krypto Labs, to launch the UAE NewSpace Innovation Programme. The programme

The dangers of IoT and AI

By updatesPosted on 11th January 202015th January 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, ScotlandISCyber, Industry News

The risks of cybersecurity are more complex than ever. Due to the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), by 2020 every person will generate 1.7 megabytes of information per second. As new technologies evolve, cyber criminals adapt and

PhD centre will nurture new leaders in Earth observation

By updatesPosted on 7th January 20207th January 2020Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

A new centre will enable 50 fully-funded PhD researchers to harness satellite data to tackle global environmental challenges. The Centre for Satellite Data in Environmental Science (SENSE) will bring together expertise in satellite remote sensing, climate change, and advanced data science to

Data Opportunity

By HeatherPosted on 17th December 201917th December 2019Posted in ScotlandISData, Opportunity

A large French company is looking for enablers to collaborate with them on a number of different software development projects covering a range of technology specialities. If you have expertise in either Augmented Reality or Voice Recognition and would like

Speaker call: DataTech20

By HeatherPosted on 17th December 201917th December 2019Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

The Data Lab are welcoming proposals from industry, academia and the public sector for data science workshops, talks, lightning talks, and posters for DataTech20. This conference is part of DataFest20, a two-week festival of data and AI coming back to Scotland in