Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeFaculty of Technology and Digital Systems

3 departments, 11 disciplines

Departments of the Faculty of Technology and Digital Systems

Each department is a coherent body of two to five disciplines, with the courses whose primary discipline is there and the pathways that run through them.

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Faculty of Technology and Digital Systems: 3 departments and 11 disciplines, drawn as a circuit. 1 discipline with open courses; primary courses 1 open, 3 in preparation and 13 approved for authoring. 01 Department of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems: Artificial intelligence and machine learning (0 open, 0 in preparation, 1 approved); AI safety and evaluation (0 open, 0 in preparation, 2 approved); Robotics and autonomous systems (0 open, 0 in preparation, 2 approved); AI assurance and audit (0 open, 0 in preparation, 0 approved). 02 Department of Computing, Data and Quantum Technologies: Data infrastructure, compute and semiconductors (1 open, 1 in preparation, 1 approved); Quantum technologies (0 open, 0 in preparation, 2 approved). 03 Department of Cyber, Digital and Space Systems: Cybersecurity and digital resilience (0 open, 2 in preparation, 2 approved); Digital public infrastructure and digital identity (0 open, 0 in preparation, 1 approved); Space systems, space weather and navigation (0 open, 0 in preparation, 2 approved); Operational technology and cyber-physical security (0 open, 0 in preparation, 0 approved); Positioning, navigation and timing resilience (0 open, 0 in preparation, 0 approved).
Technology and Digital Systems: departments, disciplines and courses. Drawn as a circuit.
  • Open, 1
  • In preparation, 3
  • Approved for authoring, 13
From the Academy atlas and the curriculum: primary courses only; numbers mark departments.
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The departments in brief.

The Faculty of Technology and Digital Systems has 3 departments and 11 disciplines. Department pages sit at a stable address under the faculty, so departments can be reorganised later without breaking the addresses of disciplines.

3 departments at a glance.

Numbered as on the faculty figure above. Each card counts the department's disciplines and the courses whose primary discipline is there.

Department of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems

How AI and machine learning systems are built and fail, how they are evaluated for safety, and robots and autonomous systems in the physical world.

Department of Computing, Data and Quantum Technologies

Data infrastructure, compute and semiconductors, and quantum computing, sensing and communication.

Department of Cyber, Digital and Space Systems

Cybersecurity and digital resilience, digital public infrastructure and identity, and space systems, space weather and navigation.

Terms used on this page.

TermDefinition
DepartmentA body of two to five related disciplines within Faculty of Technology and Digital Systems.
DisciplineOne subject of study with its own scope, courses, labs and key terms.

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