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SMMI co-sponsors Digital Maritime Workshop with Turing at Southampton

Published: 27 March 2020
Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash

To celebrate the opening of the Marine and Maritime Group in the Data-centric Engineering Programme at the University of Southampton, Turing at Southampton hosted a Digital Maritime Workshop in partnership with the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI).

The aim of the workshop was to explore and define the University's key competencies in Digital Maritime, and encourage further research collaborations between these groups. It brought together the University's experts from the Maritime Engineering Group, Web Science, Mathematics, Geography, Oceanography and the Library.

The event was opened by Tim Kent, Technical Director for Marine in Lloyd’s Register, who talked about the evolving landscape of Digitalisation in the life of a ship. He discussed the ways in which ships are designed, operated and recycled with increasing reliance on Artificial Intelligence and Data-centric systems.

Professor Peter Smith, Turing University Lead (TUL) for Southampton, provided more information about the Alan Turing Institute and the beneficial links between the Institute and the University. His talk focused around the key themes of the Alan Turing Institute:

  • Innovate and develop world-class research in data science and artificial intelligence;
  • Apply data science research to real-world problems, supporting the creation of new products, services and jobs;
  • Train the next generation of data science and artificial intelligence leaders;
  • Thought leadership: advise policy-makers and shape the public conversation around data.

He also provided an outline of the activities being performed within the University that are linked with the Alan Turing Institute. Those who are interested should contact him at: P.W.Smith@soton.ac.uk.

Professor Susan Gourvenec, Deputy Director for the Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute, outlined the challenges in the Marine and Maritime space. She focused on the decarbonisation of engineering artifacts and the many exciting research opportunities available to improve the way we interact with our ecosystem.

There was also an opportunity for the most promising idea(s) from the workshop to secure seed funding from a £20k budget for feasibility studies in the area of AI or Data Analytics in Marine and Maritime. This competition will continue until 17 April 2020. Interested teams should contact P.W.Smith@soton.ac.uk and G.D.Weymouth@soton.ac.uk.

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