Orchid Project

Telemarketers, insurance underwriters and watch repairers beware – your jobs are among the most likely to be automated in the near future.
That is according a study from the Department of Engineering Science at the Oxford Martin School, which developed a new technique for evaluating the likelihood that various jobs will be...

Computers have been an important part of many industries for decades already and have replaced humans in many jobs. But a new wave of technological development means that even positions that we once saw as immune to computerisation are now under threat.
In 1930, as the Great Depression spread across the...

A new working paper from researchers at Oxford University poses an important question: “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerization?”
The answer? A lot.
“According to our estimate, 47 percent of total US employment is in the high risk category, meaning that associated occupations are potentially automatable over some...

Nearly half of U.S. jobs could be susceptible to computerization over the next two decades, a study from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology suggests.
The study, a collaboration between Dr. Carl Benedikt Frey (Oxford Martin School) and Dr. Michael A. Osborne (Department of Engineering Science, University...

There’s a fairly good chance a computer could one day be doing your job instead of you, according to a recent paper out of Oxford College.
The working paper, put out in August and complete with the fun title, “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?“, comes from...

Oxford researchers say that 45 percent of America’s occupations will be automated within the next 20 years.

Rapid advances in technology have long represented a serious potential threat to many jobsordinarily performed by people.A recent report (which is not online, but summarized here) from the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the...

An app lets anyone log the numbers of endangered animals – by listening to their calls
TO THE untrained ear, the chirping noises made by many small creatures or insects sound very similar. Now there is a new breed of app that will allow anyone with a smartphone to identify the...

Global internet outage, a virus outbreak and global warming are just some of the hypothetical disaster scenarios set to be created by an unusual collaboration between researchers at the University of Southampton and newly-appointed Leverhulme artists-in-residence.
The ORCHID programme, based in Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University, investigates how...

The New Forest Cicada App is featured in the Summer 2013 addition of BBC Wildlife. See .

If you haven’t noticed, it’s a major cicada season. Hundreds of the little creatures have sprouted up all over the world, looking for their mates before meeting their deaths — if they don’t get stepped on in the process.
But while they may make their presence known very strongly in the...