How sure is sure? Incorporating human error into machine learning

Researchers are developing a way to incorporate one of the most human of characteristics – uncertainty – into machine learning systems.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Aug. 10, 2023 ~6 min

Interactive tool helps you decide how to protect yourself and others from COVID-19

Is it risky to sing in a choir? What are the risks of eating in a small restaurant? How much difference does it make to open windows or clean surfaces? New

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 2, 2021 ~5 min


Interactive tool helps people decide how best to protect themselves and others from COVID-19

Is it risky to sing in a choir? What are the risks of eating in a small restaurant? How much difference does it make to open windows or clean surfaces? New

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 2, 2021 ~5 min

Two-metre COVID-19 rule is ‘arbitrary measurement’ of safety

A new study has shown that the airborne transmission of COVID-19 is highly random and suggests that the two-metre rule was a number chosen from a risk

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 23, 2021 ~5 min

Real-time drone intent monitoring could enable safer use of drones and prevent a repeat of 2018 Gatwick incident

Researchers have developed a real-time approach that can help prevent incidents like the large-scale disruption at London’s Gatwick Airport in 2018, where

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 15, 2021 ~6 min

Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant were more likely to be admitted to hospital compared to patients with Alpha variant

Largest study to date analysing more than 40,000 COVID-19 cases (including a combination of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals) confirmed by virus genome

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Aug. 31, 2021 ~4 min

Experiment evaluates the effect of human decisions on climate reconstructions

The first double-blind experiment analysing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can lead to substantially different

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 7, 2021 ~6 min

How accurate were early expert predictions on COVID-19, and how did they compare to the public?

Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic – experts or the public? A study from the University of Cambridge has found that

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 5, 2021 ~6 min


Governments are failing to understand global catastrophic risks and need to take urgent action, says new report

Governments are failing to understand the human-driven catastrophic risks that threaten global security, prosperity and potential, and could in the worst case lead to mass harm and societal collapse, say researchers at the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Aug. 13, 2019 ~4 min

‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions

The molten rock that feeds volcanoes can be stored in the Earth’s crust for as long as a thousand years, a result which may help with volcanic hazard management and better forecasting of when eruptions might occur.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 18, 2019 ~5 min

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