Most experts agree that quantum computing has the potential to outperform classical computers in a few years for some use cases. Also, there is a risk that in the future quantum computers will be used to crack encryption that is currently safe. This risk needs to be mitigated. …

As part of the DCMS Industrial 5G Testbeds & Trials programme, which is coordinated by Digital Catapult (find out more here), we are taking a look at areas where the application of 5G technology can have a drastic impact. …

Daniel Goldsmith — Quantum Computing Technologist, Digital Catapult When I told a friend about my new job as a quantum computing technologist for Digital Catapult he asked me if quantum computing was like nuclear fusion: a technology with great potential but with no benefits despite decades of costly research. Can…

Quantum computing — understanding the basics This blog answers some common questions on quantum computing, including the likely future impact, how a quantum computer works, how long we need to wait to see benefits, how the UK is positioned to take advantage of the new technology and mitigations needed for potential negative consequences. 1. Why do…

Digital Catapult and Cray partner together to support recently acquired company Bloomsbury AI to set the record in open domain machine reading. — Cray’s partnership on the programme enables the Machine Intelligence Garage to offer companies the supercomputing power and expertise required to develop and build machine learning and AI solutions. The Cape story via Bloomsbury AI shows just how this can be done.

One of the main challenges faced across many domains, when using machine learning, is data imbalance. — Machine learning algorithms are susceptible to returning unsatisfactory predictions when trained on imbalanced datasets. This is because the classifier often learns to simply predict the majority class all of the time. Taking an extreme example of a two class dataset where the minority class only accounts for 5% of the…

15 tips for startups on how to engage and collaborate with corporates — London Tech Week always brings a great buzz to London and with it some of the greatest minds in technology and innovation. It always reminds me why working in tech in one of the greatest cities in the world is so rewarding. …

Simon Parkinson completed a residency with Digital Catapult researching permissions creep During my time as Digital Catapult Researcher in Residence, I undertook research, guided by end-user consultation, into machine learning techniques of detecting irregular access control permissions without any prior knowledge (i.e., they are unsupervised). This resulted in the development of a new modelling and learning technique, which was applied to…

You’ve had this amazing research idea that you suspect might be of enormous benefit to patients who suffer from hemigolania. You know that it will reduce treatment time, rapidly enhance their quality of life and save the health service enormous amounts of money, and many people a lot of misery…