EXPERT COMMENT: Police mugshots: millions of citizens’ faces are now digitised and searchable – but the tech is poor
Martin Paul Evison, Professor in Forensic Science at Northumbria discusses digitised Police mugshots for The Conversation.
Topics: Data, Telecom, IT
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Project explores digital library for Africa
Experts from around the world will visit Northumbria University, Newcastle next month to discuss how the creation of a Pan-African digital library could transform the lives of people living across the continent.
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Northumbria helps to plug digital skills gap as founder member of new national Institute of Coding
Northumbria University is to play a leading role in a new £40 million nationwide Institute of Coding, established to plug the digital skills gap and give UK an edge in the global digital economy.
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Creative minds focus on cyber security solutions
Keeping children and young people safe and healthy online will be the focus of an innovative event taking place next month, organised by Northumbria University’s Creative Fuse team, Northumbria Police and Campus North.
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Northumbria key partner in European Horizon 2020 Project on Visible Light Communications
Northumbria University, Newcastle has been chosen to take part in a multi-million pound research project exploring how light could be used to allow electronic devices to communicate in the smart homes, cars, factories and businesses of the future.
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EXPERT COMMENT: The UK’s online porn crackdown could harm young people more than it helps
Rosie Hodsdon, PhD candidate in Law and Sexuality at Northumbria University, writes about the recently announced plan to force pornographic websites to verify users' ages by use of technological tool to stop under 18s watching online porn.
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Northumbria masters the art of digital marketing
Northumbria University, Newcastle, has launched a postgraduate course in digital marketing in collaboration with leading marketing professionals to meet the needs of employers in a rapidly growing industry.
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Information Commissioner speaks ‘on the record’ at Northumbria University
The UK Information Commissioner is to talk in the North East for the first time as the keynote speaker at a Northumbria conference looking at how records and archives are managed.
