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Claudia Schulz, a PhD student in the Department of Computing, has been awarded Imperial College’s Best Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. She hopes that “showing children what cool tech jobs are out there and having role models” is a great way to increase the number of female scientists. By becoming a Teaching Scholar in her department and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy she hopes to be part of that legacy. Currently her research involves argumentation precision making. She is studying the process of human choice making and to construct machines that operate similarly. At the moment ‘Answer Set Programming’ computes into structured argumentation ABA\ASPIC +, however, humans might not be able to decipher the coding. So Schulz is hoping to build machines that can make accurate decisions and take us through the decision making process too, which could help us in decision making.

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How the Supreme Court ruling on gender is impacting queer people at Imperial

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How the Supreme Court ruling on gender is impacting queer people at Imperial

Last month, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) ruled that for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010), the definition of a woman is based on biological sex.  The case brought before the court, For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers, asked if transgender women should be included

By Oscar Mitcham and Isabella Duchovny
College opens Imperial Global India in Bengaluru

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College opens Imperial Global India in Bengaluru

Imperial College London has launched its fourth global hub in Bengaluru. The hub will host research programmes with Indian partners, focusing on some of “the world’s most pressing challenges in areas such as climate change and sustainability, food and water security, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).” Launched at the Science

By Mohammad Majlisi