OXFORD University is to help run a new data research centre named after famous codebreaker Alan Turing.
It will join four other universities at the Alan Turing Institute at London’s British Library.
The centre will research the use of data and algorithms, used in computing. Turing’s work at the Bletchley Park codebreaking centre near Milton Keynes is widely held to have shortened the Second World War and saved thousands of lives. It helped read German naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine.
The Government is putting in £42m and Business Secretary Vince Cable said: “Alan Turing’s genius played a pivotal role in cracking the codes that helped us win the Second World War.”
Oxford Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Ian Walmsley said: “Advances in data science and algorithms have the potential to transform our everyday lives and the economy and we are delighted to be part of this new venture.”
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