GCHQ research partnership with The Alan Turing Institute

5 Aug 2015 01:27 PM

​GCHQ is delighted to be working with The Alan Turing Institute in a research partnership on open access and commercial data-analysis methods.

Announced yesterday, The Alan Turing Institute and GCHQ have agreed in principle to work together with the wider national security community for the benefit of data science and analytics research in the UK.  Both institutions have a mission to inform policy, propagate best practice and catalyse the next generation of ideas and methods for the use of big data.  They have agreed to cooperate on training and research in data-analytical methods that may be applied in open access and commercial environments.

Established as the UK National Institute for Data Sciences, The Alan Turing Institute is a joint venture between the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL, Warwick and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Read the full article on the GCHQ website