Southampton to join The Alan Turing Institute Electronics and Computer Science

The University of Southampton is set to join The Alan Turing Institute (ATI), the UK's prestigious national institute for data science. Subject to signing a partnership agreement, it is anticipated that Southampton and the University of Bristol will be working with the Institute and its university partners to develop collaborative programmes of research from summer 2018. The Institute is named in honour of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in theoretical and applied mathematics, engineering and computing are considered to be the key disciplines comprising the emerging field of data science. All new universities joining the Turing network have been admitted based on the excellence of their research and its alignment with the Institute's research interests, their ability to bring new expertise and opportunities which add to the core strengths of the Institute and its existing partners, and their willingness to contribute financially to the Institute. Professor Mark Spearing, Vice-President (Research and Enterprise), University of Southampton, commented: "We are a pioneering world-leader in computer, data and web science and becoming a university partner of The Alan Turing Institute is an important step as we seek to further expand our capabilities in harmony with other world-leaders in these fields. This partnership comes at a time when the digital world faces many challenges and it is only through collaborative efforts like this that we'll succeed in addressing the world's societal and scientific needs."