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Cambridge is shaping AI for everyone

07 April 2025

Explore how Cambridge is using AI for better healthcare, smarter public services and new ways of tackling climate change. Meet our community and discover how ai@cam is supporting the development of AI that works for science, citizens and society. 聽

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探花直播chemist who fuses fashion with science

21 Aug 2020

Areeb Mahtey is studying for a PhD in epigenetics, but outside the lab he is a member of the 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 Fashion and Luxury Brands...

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Unexpected experiences: George Doji reflects on putting museum storytelling into the digital world

20 Aug 2020

George Doji, host of Museum Remix at the 探花直播 of Cambridge Museums, describes the digital experiment in museum storytelling that began when the...

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Beyond the pandemic: tackle the digital divide

13 Aug 2020

Increased working, learning and interacting online during the pandemic has widened the gap for those who lack digital skills or access, writes Gemma...

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A baker, a plumber, and a... swan taker

10 Aug 2020

Cambridge 探花直播 Library's joint project with the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society, continues to reveal the secrets of...

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Unexpected experiences: Katy Pitts describes preparing the department for her colleagues to return to the workplace

07 Aug 2020

Katy Pitts, Principal Assistant and Safety Officer at the Department of Biochemistry, could probably now write the How-To manual on re-opening a...

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Digital resurrection: bringing one of Italy's most important lost churches back to life

03 Aug 2020

Art historians have created a new app which allows users to roam around one of Florence鈥檚 oldest and most important churches, San Pier Maggiore, 240...

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Beyond the pandemic: reduce the risk of animal viruses jumping to humans

30 Jul 2020

Cambridge zoologists Bill Sutherland and Silviu Petrovan warn that we must dramatically change the way we interact with animals to reduce the risk of...

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Launch of 'Beyond the pandemic': where should we go from here?

30 Jul 2020

探花直播COVID-19 crisis is forcing us all to change direction, to rethink what we do and how we do it. In a new series, launched today, we ask our...

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Unexpected experiences: Lucy Spokes talks about the excitement of a newly digital Festival

29 Jul 2020

Head of Public Engagement, Dr Lucinda Spokes, describes the difficult decision to pull the plug on the 26th Cambridge Science Festival in March this...

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Unexpected experiences: Glen Rangwala reflects on Cambridge's first virtual Open Days

23 Jul 2020

Glen Rangwala, admissions tutor for Trinity College and director of the undergraduate programme in Politics & International Relations, was...

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Unexpected experiences: Richard Gilbertson discusses how lockdown has enabled him to kick-start a new initiative

21 Jul 2020

Faced with closed laboratories and cancelled conferences, paediatric oncologist Richard Gilbertson kick-started a 鈥21st-century method鈥 for meeting...

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Unexpected experiences: Simone Eringfeld explains how the pandemic has shifted the focus of her research

15 Jul 2020

Unable to set off on her MPhil fieldwork, Simone Eringfeld shifted her research to explore how students and academics at Cambridge could reimagine...

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