According to Anil Madhavapeddy, professor of planetary computing at the University of Cambridge, technology transfer between cutting edge research and public adoption has been dramatically sped up in the past three decades by open source.
“The rise of cloud computing, large-scale data science and formal verification can all be traced back to code first written in research organisations,” he said. “We need this innovation loop more than ever now, to keep pace with advances in artificial intelligence and ensure societal impacts resulting from these are equitable and just.”
In ComputerWeekly.com’s piece by Cliff Saran on the work being done between OpenUK and UK Research and Innovation