Matters pertaining to law and ethics in the digital environment
The NERC ‘Digital Gathering 23’ has now drawn to a successful conclusion, organised through the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme. Held at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge on 10-11th July, the #DG23 International conference hosted a series of excellent oral presentation, spotlight talks, posters and masterclass workshops focussing on four of the core themes of […]
There’s been a lot in the press and media in recent weeks about ‘Generative AI’ and the increasingly well-known Open-AI chat bot agent ‘Chat GPT’ and its like. There are now a number of these agents out there to try, a recent addition to the pack is Google’s ‘Bard’ large language model chatbot. Educational establishments […]
We have been trying out the rather amazing OpenAI tool ‘ChatGPT‘. This extraordinary online tool (https://chat.openai.com) provides the latest in AI. We asked it what it was and it answered ‘ChatGPT is a large language model that uses deep learning to generate human-like text. It is trained on a diverse set of internet text to […]
The first NERC ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ (CDE) conference and hackathon ‘#CDE22’ has just finished, running over the past few days at the University of Birmingham. The Hackathon commenced on 10th July, then the conference itself ran on from Monday 11 to Tuesday 12 July. The event has been the culmination of the work underway […]
On Thursday 8th April we were very pleased to welcome Martin Sloan present a webinar entitled ‘Data protection, privacy and IP – what do you need to think about in the digital environment?’. Martin Sloan is a partner in the IP, Tech and Data team at Brodies LLP. Martin is recognised by Chambers and Partners […]
On Thursday 18th March we were delighted to have Professor Abbe Brown of the university of Aberdeen present a webinar entitled ‘Just because you can? Balancing the rights and regimes relevant to the digital environment’. Abbe Brown is Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Aberdeen. Her research and teaching focus on intellectual […]
On Thursday 25th February we were delighted to have Charles Helleputte of UCLouvain and a Partner in Steptoe present a fascinating webinar entitled ‘Is EU cybersecurity the missing piece to sustainable digital environment?’. Charles is a partner heading the EU cybersecurity, data, and privacy practice at Steptoe. He focuses on existing EU and national cybersecurity, […]
We had a fantastic finish to the first of our Webinar series ‘Data for Decision Making’ when Professor Karl Claxton presented his most informative talk on Lessons from applying decision science in the public health sector. This presentation followed the earlier webinars from Professor Sam L Savage (The Flaw of Averages and How to Cure […]