Cardiff Metropolitan University is a thriving University based in the capital city of Wales with around 12,000 students and a further 6,000 transnational education students across the world. Cardiff Met was rated the top post 1992 university in the REF 2014. A full-time Data Science position is available to support a collaborative research project between Cardiff Metropolitan University and World Rugby. The project aims to; examine the subsequent injury risk following concussion in professional Rugby Union players, and to develop an associated software analysis tool using machine learning. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in a collaborative project between Cardiff Metropolitan University and World Rugby.

Last year, a curious nonfiction book became a Times best-seller: a dense meditation on artificial intelligence by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, who holds an appointment at Oxford. Titled "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies," it argues that true artificial intelligence, if it is realized, might pose a danger that exceeds every previous threat from technology--even nuclear weapons--and that if its development is not managed carefully humanity risks engineering its own extinction. Central to this concern is the prospect of an "intelligence explosion," a speculative event in which an A.I. gains the ability to improve itself, and in short order exceeds the intellectual potential of the human brain by many orders of magnitude. Such a system would effectively be a new kind of life, and Bostrom's fears, in their simplest form, are evolutionary: that humanity will unexpectedly become outmatched by a smarter competitor. He sometimes notes, as a point of comparison, the trajectories ...

Journeyman director Stephen Hopkins doesn't try to pep up the bland biopic formula with his Jesse Owens drama "Race," but he does deliver a reasonably stirring version of a story that bears retelling. Stephan James gives an engaging performance as Owens, who overcomes prejudice and intense national pressure to compete and win at the 1936 Olympic Games. The movie leans heavily on a simplistic heroes-and-villains narrative, but that's hard to fault too much when the main bad guy is, y'know, Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, "Race" is broad but effective, reminding viewers of an important moment in the history of American sports and patriotism -- which was also one more step down the long, seemingly unending road toward eliminating bigotry. Cult animator Bill Plympton has made one of his oddest and most entertaining feature films with the mockumentary "Hitler's Folly," which uses some of the Nazi leader's real artwork and early biographical details to imagine an alternate history where Hitler aimed to be a rival to Walt Disney as well as a genocidal dictator. While Hitler steers the Reich's resources into making one unwieldy epic, Disney responds by putting all of his studio's visionary technicians to work on the American war effort, employing animatronic robots to fool the enemy.

HIROSHIMA – Keiichi Tsukishiro, a veteran in the field of prosthetic engineering, will be in Rio de Janeiro this summer supporting athletes taking part in the Paralympics by repairing wheelchairs and artificial limbs. This will be the sixth Paralympics for the 51-year-old Japanese, who also teaches at Hiroshima International University as a member of the faculty of rehabilitation. "I will have to play a central role as I have participated in the event more often than most other staff members," Tsukishiro said. Born in the city of Kyoto, he first took up the family business of training dogs after graduating from high school. Keenly interested in craftsmanship, he later enrolled in a national training school for producing prosthetic devices.

"Dials and buttons, knobs and switches; they're very charming," says James Ball, the digital art director behind a new photography series called Guide to Computing, which celebrates early computers. Ball, who works under the pseudonym Docubyte, began the project after developing a fascination and affection for such retro devices. "It's rare now to find any machine that you can touch and interact with," he says. "Computers now are all touch screens, slick and super-slim." Ball feels that computers that pre-date the Apple era aren't widely considered to be design pieces, and his nostalgia for this earlier, more "naive" aesthetic led him to seek out and photograph a range of machines that date from the latter half of the 20th century, representing them as if they were new and desirable products.

Apple now has the tech in place to give its digital assistant a big boost thanks to a UK-based company called VocalIQ it bought last year. In fact, it was so impressive that Apple bought VocalIQ before the company could finish and release its smartphone app. After the acquisition, Apple kept most of the VocalIQ team and let them work out of their Cambridge office and integrate the product into Siri. Before Apple bought the company, VocalIQ tested its product against Siri, Google Now, and Cortana, and the results were impressive. Users asked each AI questions using normal language, not the robotic commands you're used to using with digital assistants.

The former Google CEO, who now serves as the executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, appeared at the Startup Fest Europe conference in the Netherlands on May 24, discussing everything from artificial intelligence to Google's new chat app Allo -- as well as its regulatory environment. Google is currently the subject of antitrust investigations by the European Commission over alleged anti-competitive practices relating to Search and Android, and could face billions in fines. Asked by CNBC interviewer Julia Chatterley about the problems facing Google-linked venture capital firm GV, Schmidt said there are "lots of issues in the European Union that have to get addressed" -- and went on to list what he perceives to be the key problems holding back the continent's tech scene, from education to legislation. "Let's start with the universities in Europe. We hire incredibly smart people that come out of the European universities. Universities themselves are underfunded relative to the American universities, by a lot."

A historic machine used to swap top secret messages between Hitler and his generals has been found languishing in a shed in Essex. Volunteers from The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park used eBay to track down the keyboard of the Lorenz machine. It was advertised as a telegram machine and was for sale for 9.50. The museum, in Buckinghamshire, is now asking people to search for the motor, another key piece of the equipment. "My colleague was scanning eBay and he saw a photograph of what seemed to be the teleprinter," said John Wetter, a volunteer at the museum.

Job Description In this role, you'll be part of our European consulting team that is helping clients to design and deliver innovative solutions based on Cognitive Computing approaches - in particular based on IBM WATSON technology. We're looking for experienced professionals who have proven expertise in one or multiple of the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Technologies, Information Retrieval or Machine Learning. You'll provide advisory and implementation expertise to our clients including: use case and business case development for Cognitive Computing solutions; proof of concept execution to prove the value of Cognitive Computing use cases; solution outline and design of Cognitive Computing systems; as well as supporting business development activities. You'll have strong experience in designing and building innovative solutions based on the above technologies but you will also be have the expertise and architectural mindset to relate and integrate such solutions with existing client system infrastructures, such as e.g. Proven hands-on experience in conducting analyses on unstructured as well as structured / semi-structured data and in working with state-of the art technologies in Cognitive Computing will be expected.

There has been a lot of press coverage over the summer about robots and more generally Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over the world of work. BBC news has recently run a special feature on it which included an interactive test to check if your job is at risk (Will a robot take your job?). Artificial Intelligence is the science of how to make machines that can think for themselves according to Stanford University. Increasingly, machines have been able to learn and improve their own performance to produce results that until recently was only thought possible to obtain using human intelligence and social experience. It is this achievement which has thrust AI as a concept back into the mainstream press, along with all the sensational headlines.