Despite recent spate of knife crime, UK sees decline in serious violence

New research has revealed that European students who travel abroad to study increase their alcohol consumption by 35% while they are away from home. This corresponds with an increase in alcohol-related harm.

DAIS group join new Centre for Doctor Training (CDT) to grow future generation of leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Professor Simon Moore writes about the pressure alcohol and violence puts on the NHS, and what we can do to reduce it.

Our latest newsletter is out featuring: an interview with Bellingcat exploring the boundaries of Open Source Investigations; a study by Computer Scientists from Cardiff University and MIT find AI Robots can develop prejudice on their own

The Crime and Security Research Institute were honoured to welcome Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations, Mr Neil Basu to Cardiff to deliver the Institute’s inaugural Distinguished Lecture.

CSRI’s Federico Cerutti presented the paper “A Tool to Highlight Weaknesses and Strengthen Cases: CISpaces.org”, co-authored by Timothy Norman and Alice, at ‘JURIX 2018’. JURIX is the 31st international conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, hosted by the Faculty of Law and the department of Artificial Intelligence

The CSRI team were recently joined by Eliot Higgins and Donara Barojan from Bellingcat and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR Lab), who led a fascinating workshop on Open Source investigations.

Academics at the Crime and Security Research Institute have conducted the first independent academic evaluation of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) technology across a variety of major policing operations.

The Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention, pioneered by Professor Jonathan Shepherd, has been primed for roll out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

DAIS Research Student Dave Braines from IBM Research UK presented his paper ‘Multimodal Explanations for AI-based Multisensor Fusion’ at the NATO SET-262 RSM on Artificial Intelligence for Military Multisensor Fusion Engines in Budapest, Hungary.

Dr Helen Innes and Diyana Dobreva will be presenting their paper ‘Heroes & Villains: Social Media Misinformation Following the 2017 Terror Attacks’ at the 6th Military Psychology Conference on 8th November at The Ark Conference Centre in Basingstoke. 

The crime & Security Institute’s (CSRI) Federico Cerutti will present the paper “A General Approach to Reasoning with Probabilities” at the 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Tempe, Arizona, one of the most prominent venues for research in Artificial Intelligence.