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... WHAT DOES IT

MEAN FOR SCIENCE?

By Huw Gullick, Associate Director, NOC Innovations y family and I have recently moved house. (and here is me thinking that he could have shelves for all

I’m at that classic time in life when needs are his Lego). Intrigued, but secretly thinking I could catch him changing; bigger garden for the kids, spare out, I asked; “what’s a digital lab?”. The look of disappoint-

M room for the parents to stay in and larger ment on his face; “What!? Like machine learning, AI, digital lounge so the dog has his own sofa. When we moved in my twins, stuff like that. How old are you dad?” Truly beaten by eldest son chose his bedroom – much bigger than in the old an 8 year-old, I went back downstairs to my typewriter – you house – and I asked him what he was going to do with all know, the thing that you hit letters and it prints them on this the space. “This area is for my digital lab,” was the response stuff called paper.

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