The Alan Turing Institute
About
The Alan Turing Institute, headquartered in the British Library, London, was created as the UK’s independent national institute for data science in 2015 by six founding members, namely the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and Warwick – and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
It is a charity registered in England and regulated by the Charity Commission and an English company limited by guarantee and registered at Companies House. In 2017, as a result of a stakeholder recommendation, we clarified that our remit covered artificial intelligence.
The institute is named in honour of Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), whose pioneering work in theoretical and applied mathematics, engineering and computing are considered to be the key disciplines comprising the fields of data science and artificial intelligence.
Eight universities – Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Queen Mary University of London, Birmingham, Exeter, Bristol, and Southampton – joined the institute in 2018.
In 2023, the institute launched an open university network, providing all UK universities with an interest in data science and AI the opportunity to engage and collaborate both with the institute and its broader networks.
In 2024, the institute underwent an extensive governance overhaul to further facilitate its work.
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Since its inception, the institute has been funded through grants and partnerships with Research Councils, university partners and from strategic and other partnerships in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Contact
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, England, NW1 2DB, United Kingdom.
