The University of Southampton is a member of the Turing University Network, a new strategy launched in 2023 to provide UK universities with an interest in data science and AI the opportunity to engage and collaborate both with the Institute and its broader networks. The Web Science Institute coordinates the University’s Turing-related activities including running engagement and cohort activities and sharing Turing opportunities and events.
The Alan Turing Institute, headquartered in the British Library, London, was created as the national institute for data science in 2015 and in 2017, as a result of a government recommendation, artificial intelligence was added to their remit. The Institute is named in honour of Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), whose pioneering work in theoretical and applied mathematics, engineering and computing are considered to be the key disciplines comprising the fields of data science and artificial intelligence.
