News in brief
Musical feet and heads in the cloud: News from the College
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
Stories tagged with 'big data'
Smart diagnostics
Smartphones could help diagnose infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
A new Imperial-led review has outlined how health workers could use existing phones to predict and curb the spread of infectious diseases.
Data science team
MSc students inspire law firm to launch in-house data science team
Two Imperial alumni have been recruited by law firm DLA Piper after their data science projects helped the firm uncover valuable insights in its data.
Exciting times
Focus on …. Data & Analytics Week
Interested in a career in Data & Analytics but want to find out more? Come along to one of our talks/events during the Focus on Data & Analytics Week.
Safety in numbers
Spending six weeks with the Metropolitan Police Service and their data
Imperial PhD student Jan Povala recently seconded to the Met, where he applied statistical methods to their work.
Video
Future of Surgery
A new wave of technology is set to transform surgery for millions of patients
An independent commission has predicted that surgery is about to be transformed for millions of patients by a new wave of technologies.
Five papers accepted
Five papers accepted at AAAI-19, 33rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Five papers by members of the Department of Computing have been accepted at the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-19.
Medical imaging and AI
New £10m centre in medical imaging and AI
A new £10m centre, announced today, will help train artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis and care.
Appy to help
Universities Minister joins education app showcase at Imperial Enterprise Lab
The Universities Minister visited the Imperial Enterprise Lab on Thursday to kick-start the next phase of a government-led competition.
Asthma research
Using Big Data to unravel asthma
Asthma is not a single disease but actually a complex of different conditions with fundamentally different underlying molecular machinery
