Introduction
Sarah Sharples is Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport and Professor of Human Factors in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham. She has led research in transport, manufacturing and healthcare, and currently leads the EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) Connected Everything Network Plus.
Hosted by Sethu Vijayakumar, Programme Co-Director for Artificial Intelligence (Robotics and autonomous systems) at The Alan Turing Institute, Professor of Robotics at the University of Edinburgh, UK and the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.
This event is organized in collaboration with the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
About the event
The Turing is delighted to be returning to in-person events, and we’d encourage everyone to consider attending in person as we hold our first Turing Lecture within the historic Royal Institution.
The Turing Lectures series brings together leading thinkers to inform, entertain, and shape the national conversation on data science and AI.
In this Turing Lecture, Professor Sarah Sharples (Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport) will discuss the interface between policy and science for self-driving vehicles, and highlight some of the challenges and opportunities that we face in this area.
Automation has been present within our transport system for years, but we are now entering an age of autonomy where the nature of transport is rapidly evolving. As we continue on our path towards self-driving vehicles, what is the role for science, and how do we take research into the world of policy and legislation at pace? How can we make sure that self-driving vehicles are good for individuals, for society, and for the economy?
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