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Digital Digest: The Latest Tech News – Aston University

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Aston University
Aston
University, based in Birmingham, is setting up a new research
institute to focus on digital innovation and transformation –
trends that are important for the UK’s wealth and banking
industry.
Called Aston Digital Futures Institute, it will bring together
big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, the internet
of things and autonomous systems to create new value using
digital technologies.
The university is hiring a team of researchers. The group will
include a director to provide academic, managerial and strategic
leadership and four professors, all of whom will be
“internationally recognised research leaders” in their
disciplines with significant experience of artificial
intelligence in health, data science, bioinformatics,
gamification and digital inclusion.
Together with the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston
Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston Institute of Health and
Neurodevelopment and the Energy and Bioproducts Research
Institute, the establishment of ADFI brings the number of
research institutes at Aston University to five.