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WMG exhibits at low carbon vehicle event
WMG leads Institute of Digital Healthcare
WMG agreement with PTC
UK academics turn off tap of online data
Lord Bhattacharyya predicts hospital robots in speech on receiving Indian award

WMG exhibits at low carbon vehicle event

WMG is proud to be one of over 100 exhibitors at the UK's first showcase of low carbon vehicle technology in all its forms.

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WMG leads Institute of Digital Healthcare

A new £4 million partnership between NHS West Midlands and The University of Warwick will bring West Midlands patients and health professionals the benefits of the very latest research into digital medicine.
The new partnership agreement with NHS West Midlands will provide just under £2.5 million in funding over five years for the Institute of Digital Healthcare. It will be based in the University of Warwick’s new £12.5 million Digital Lab which was opened this summer by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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WMG agreement with PTC

WMG has agreed a multi-million pound deal with a leading global industrial software provider.

The deal with PTC, will mean WMG's students and academics can access software used in engineering and technology companies around the world. It will also establish a new ‘PTC Academy’ at WMG.

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UK academics turn off tap of online data

UK academics are working together with industry to turn off the deluge of personal data that floods the internet and threatens people’s security and identity.
Through a £3.6 million project, called Encore (Ensuring Consent and Revocation), a team of e-security experts aims to create a solution to increasing problems caused by the uncontrolled flow of personal data. The team brings together researchers from HP’s Systems Security Lab in Bristol, the project leaders, with WMG at the University of Warwick, QinetiQ, HW Communications, Oxford University's Ethox Centre legal department, and regulation and business experts from the London School of Economics (LSE).

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Lord Bhattacharyya predicts hospital robots in speech on receiving Indian award

Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, Director of WMG at the University of Warwick, has predicted that patients could in future find themselves face to face with a robot when they first arrive in hospital thanks to research work by his team. He made the prediction in a speech today, Monday 18th August, in a ceremony in which he received an honorary doctorate of sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur.

The doctorate of sciences is IIT Kharagpur’s highest accolade. Only 16 have been awarded in the institute’s history. Previous recipients have included Mother Theresa.

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