Student Photography Competition: The Future of AI
The Futures Institute is launching the Edinburgh Futures Conversations’ Student Photography Competition which is now open to all University of Edinburgh students.
How Universities Support Scotland’s Creative Industries
Edinburgh Innovations’ Caroline Parkinson is Director of Creative at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She outlines the ways the University of Edinburgh works with Scotland’s creative sector to increase resilience and create innovation.
Transforming Scholarship In The Archives
Transkribus, a spinout formed by a team including Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage Melissa Terras, is using AI-powered handwritten text recognition (HTR) to give researchers, institutions and the public unprecedented access to written records of global cultural importance.
Digital Ethics: A Roadmap For Scotland
Government, industry and academia in Scotland have ambitious plans for digital and data-driven innovation, involving technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), with far-reaching consequences.
The Future Of Scotland Is All Fun And Games
The Scottish Games Network is the industry body for the video games sector in Scotland. Set up by writer and games designer Brian Baglow, the Network supports Scotland’s gaming industry to connect with other sectors and regions, promoting interactive media as a transformative technology.
Love Machine: Edinburgh Futures Institute launches programme of events for spring 2023
Edinburgh Futures Institute is delighted to announce the opening of “Love Machine” – our second season of events running from 6 March to May 2023.
Online game world founded by EFI student winS $50K GRANT
Plot Twisters, an online game world founded by Edinburgh Futures Institute student Jenny Liu Zhang, has been awarded $50K in OpenIDEO’s Designing for Digital Thriving Challenge.
DDI goes from ramp-up to delivery
The University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University’s Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) initiative has published its first annual review, highlighting progress across a range of exciting projects.
Edinburgh Professors to lead multidisciplinary AHRC Programme on AI
Two Edinburgh researchers will lead a project to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) and data are used responsibly and ethically across society and industry.
A Space to Breathe: Reflections on First Breath
Yemurai Chaza looks back at an event led by the Scottish Black and People of Colour (BPOC) Writers Network held in October 2022 as part of our Autumn 2022 inaugural event season.
