18th October 2019
Los Angeles, USA
In March, the Science and Innovation Network, DIT, and Innovate UK led a Global Expert Mission to US robotics centers of excellence. The UK-USA Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) in Extreme Environments delegation spent a week in Los Angeles, San Diego and Houston, meeting with a variety of potential partners in space, oceans and nuclear […]
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12th June 2018
Science Innovation USA
What does the farm of the future look like? Increasing automation and big data promise to revolutionise every industry, including the agricultural countryside with a tech sector that will be worth more than £136 billion globally by 2025. The UK Government recognized this early on and launched an Agri-Tech strategy in 2013 to lead on […]
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5th February 2018
Los Angeles, USA
It is no secret that San Diego, tucked away in the southwest corner of America’s largest state by GDP, is rapidly emerging as a hotspot for the development of robotic technology. The pulse of San Diego’s “Robot Valley”, as it is increasingly referred to, is the University of California, San Diego, but the ecosystem is […]
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5th January 2018
Los Angeles, USA
Last month, the Science and Innovation Network joined the Royal Society to host a series of events around the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in California. This is the first in an ongoing series of activities in the US exploring the challenges and opportunities as AI technology becomes more prevalent in society. You can find […]
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17th August 2016
Boston, USA
The UK-US Fulbright commission provides grants to UK citizens to study, research and lecture in any subject at an accredited higher education institution in the US. Student Awards are available for UK students to pursue a postgraduate degree in the US, or to attend a US university as a ‘visiting student researcher’, or Scholar/Professional Awards fund academics and professionals to lecture, […]
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23rd July 2014
Los Angeles, USA
Earlier this month I had the chance to fulfill a dream I’d had since I was a kid: seeing an actual rocket launch into space. Specifically, the launch of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) aboard a Delta II rocket at the U.S. Vandenberg Air Force Station in California. Following the 2009 failure of OCO-1, the high […]
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14th July 2014
Washington DC, USA
The following is a guest post from Captain Graham Henderson, Plans Staff Officer within the Headquarters of the UK’s 1st Mechanized Brigade who participated in the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE). Heavy wind gusts and unforgiving terrain set ideal conditions for testing new equipment in a joint exercise known as the NIE. The Network Integration Evaluation […]
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27th May 2014
Washington DC, USA
A nice aspect of my job is that I rarely find myself at the Embassy on a weekend, but earlier this month I happened to spend the better part of a Saturday volunteering my time. It was a special occasion: on 10 May, EU embassies throughout Washington opened their doors for the EU’s Annual Open […]
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17th April 2014
Washington DC, USA
I’ve been getting into Twitter in the last couple of weeks. I know I’m only five years later than everyone else, but I’m loving the new insights and the quirkiness of it all. Two things were “trending” on my Twitter timeline recently that, seemingly unrelated, made me reflect on the incentives shaping donor effectiveness. The […]
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8th April 2014
Washington DC, USA
Buzzword alert: If you haven’t heard the phrase big data, you may have been living under a rock for quite some time. It’s everywhere. When people are talk about ‘working in the cloud’ and making ‘predictions about elections,’ they’re talking about using big data. Sounds impressive, right? Well… if you don’t know what the phrase […]
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