Technology and Digital Systems
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeFaculty of Technology and Digital Systems
Artificial intelligence, computing, cyber, space and autonomous systems
Digital systems fail where they meet the physical world: a dish loses a pass, a cable lands in one valley, an exploited vulnerability stays unpatched past its due date, a model scores well on a benchmark and badly in use.
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Twin figures for West Cornwall: Goonhilly and the Porthcurno cable landings, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
The faculty's twin of the Lizard and Penwith on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the mapped ground infrastructure by kind, the mapped cables and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).
On the dishes, masts and cable landings of West Cornwall the stage carries SGP4 orbit propagation and pass prediction, ground-segment mapping on open geodata, vulnerability triage on the dated CISA catalogue and an evaluation ledger for AI systems, read under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, IEC 61508 and ISO/IEC 42001:2023. A graduate can propagate an orbit from a published element set, read an exploited-vulnerability catalogue as evidence and write an evaluation whose scores say what they mean.
Faculty of Technology and Digital Systems groups 11 disciplines into 3 departments. 1 of the 4 courses whose primary discipline is here are open for enrolment and the rest are in preparation; all of them are taught on the Risk Academy main site, so your record stays in one place.
Numbered as on the faculty figure at the top of the page. Each card counts the department's disciplines and the courses whose primary discipline is there.
Each discipline once, in its department. A mark is one primary course, filled when it is open.
Emerging areas, the technologies changing practice and the bodies that set the field's methods, from the faculty's expert review. Named for orientation; none of them endorses the Academy.
The newest developments cited on the faculty's discipline pages, sources checked on 16 October 2026. Each links to its discipline and its source.
News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for 11 disciplines, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub
Artificial intelligence and machine learning, AI safety and evaluation, Robotics and autonomous systems, AI assurance and audit, Data infrastructure, compute and semiconductors, Quantum technologies, Cybersecurity and digital resilience, Digital public infrastructure and digital identity, Space systems, space weather and navigation, Operational technology and cyber-physical security, Positioning, navigation and timing resilience
The faculty's entry course, then its flagship pathways and the Academy flagship in Nexus-Based Risk Management.
Courses with their primary discipline in this faculty. Open courses link to the catalogue; the others are listed so you can plan.
The Nexus Standards subsites whose standards the faculty's disciplines teach, by the Academy's proposed mapping.
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 2 |
| GeoAI lab | Apply Earth observation and machine learning to open imagery | 1 |
Each programme joins disciplines from more than one faculty and is hosted by an institute on the main site; it is listed on every faculty it spans.
Each department lists its disciplines, courses and pathways; each discipline its scope, labs, technology and key terms.