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The Francis Crick Institute building, part of the Knowledge Quarter

The Knowledge Quarter is a knowledge cluster, situated in a small area of London around King's Cross, the Euston Road and Bloomsbury.[ citation needed ]

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The partners of the Knowledge Quarter include The British Library, The British Museum, Google, [1] The Alan Turing Institute, [2] Francis Crick Institute, Springer Nature/Holtzbrinck, The Wellcome Trust, The Guardian, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Royal College of Physicians, UCL, SOAS, University of London and Working Men's College amongst others. [3]

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References

  1. Lewis-kraus, Gideon (2016-12-14). "The Great A.I. Awakening". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-12-21.
  2. Davies, Caroline (2014-12-04). "Alan Turing Institute for Data Science to be based at British Library". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2016-12-21.
  3. "Partners – Knowledge Quarter". www.knowledgequarter.london. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
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