Research
Playing with the Bloch Sphere
How we made a game of learning Qubits . In this article we will briefly show the tool we built while learning quantum computing; alas, this article is not about teaching these concepts. We will be covering these in a series of articles soon. At the start of our journey we were learning […]
Raise the Game: Cognitive Analysis in Sports
A Clash of Worlds IBM Watson has been used to assist some of the world’s biggest companies and help tackle some of humanities greatest threats. Now, it’s being used to assist Leatherhead Football Club, a team that play in the 7th tier of English Football and are made of up delivery drivers, car salesmen and […]
A visit to Munich for the ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposim
Supported by the Hartree Centre’s Innovation Return on Research programme – Emerging Technology and colleagues from the STFC Hartree Centre have been working to contextualise the driving environment, fusing multiple data sources together to allow vehicles to make intelligent decisions. Following on from a recent publication at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, the team recently presented an Extended […]
STFC Hartree Centre & Emerging Technology at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Supported by the Hartree Centre’s Innovation Return on Research programme – Emerging Technology and colleagues from the STFC Hartree Centre have been working to contextualise the driving environment, fusing multiple data sources together to allow vehicles to make intelligent decisions. This work was recently presented at the IEEE VTS Vehicular Technology Conference in Porto, Portugal […]
Fully automatic method for robust age progression
In Emerging Technology, we are constantly working on new research projects around security and biometrics. Since late last year, I spent some time researching age progression related problems using biometrics. One of the interesting problems with age progression was to create age progressed images with occlusions and in different age gaps for face subjects of […]
IBM Emerging Technologies UK wins TechConnect 2016
This year IBM Emerging Technologies UK submitted 10 out of 86 entries for TechConnect. TechConnect is a Europe wide internal IBM annual competition for individuals showcasing their work to senior technical leaders and decision makers. This years winning entry, “Showcasing our academic research”, was one of the entries from the UK Emerging Technology Team. It is a web application […]
BBC Make It Digital – Showing off our research
The BBC Make It Digital tour is all about digital creativity and aims to inform and inspire people around the UK, both children and adults alike. When the tour visited Cardiff as part of the Harbour Festival I was delighted that Cardiff University would be showcasing “SHERLOCK”, a new kind of digital assistant that is […]