Technology has the power to improve lives and tackle the great challenges of our time. At the University of Exeter, for example, Tim Dodwell is about to start a five-year project looking into how technology can make the aviation industry more sustainable and safer. He is one of the first five recipients of a new government fund for research fellowships into artificial intelligence (AI). His work will focus on how we can use machine learning and data processing to understand complex mathematical problems and build lighter and faster aircraft. The UK is the birthplace of AI, and it is fitting that these new fellowships are named after the man credited with inventing machine learning: Alan Turing.