Healthcare ‘decision support programme’ will feature AI tools
The Digital Health and Care Institute is working in collaboration with the Scottish Government to launch the next research and development phase of the innovative ‘decision support programme’. This programme...
AI-based forecasting tools will help electricity network better respond to demand
Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS), the Glasgow-based technology company, has used two forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the accuracy of the forecasts needed to run flexibility services in the...
Digital Minister puts people – ‘not machines’ – at heart of new AI vision for Scotland
Scotland’s digital minister has put people – ‘not machines’ – at the heart of the nation’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) vision, which will take the form of a new strategy launching...
AI project set to unlock ‘treasure trove’ of data in oil and gas industry
A joint project involving researchers from the University of Aberdeen is using artificial intelligence (AI) to unlock the “treasure trove” of raw data collected by the oil and gas industry...
DataFest20 returns to Scottish cities with ‘multiple events’ taking place over two weeks in March next year
The Data Lab, Scotland’s Innovation Centre for data and artificial intelligence, has announced the return of its flagship two-week data festival. Now in its fourth year, DataFest20 is returning to...
Glasgow space pioneers take remote location data to new level
A Glasgow-based start-up is planning to go global with the development of a system that uses satellite technology to provide Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity in some of the most...
The Data Lab announces move to Aberdeen tech hub
The Data Lab – Scotland’s national innovation centre for data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – has announced a move to a new tech hub in Aberdeen. As part of...
‘We are on the cusp of a huge health tech revolution’, says health secretary on launch of new National Artificial Intelligence Lab
A new ‘National Artificial Intelligence Lab’ has been launched as part of a UK Government £250m investment into AI. The AI Lab will bring together academics, specialists and technology companies to work...
Edinburgh fintech secures £1.75m to double in size within six months
A new business that provides corporate financiers with ‘fully verifiable data’ on private company valuations is set to double in size over the next six months, having secured new investment....
CodeClan contributing to Scotland’s £20bn ‘data boom’
The goal of adding an additional £20bn to Scotland’s economy drew a little closer this week with the first cohort of students in digital skills academy CodeClan’s ‘ground-breaking’ Data Analysis...

