Leverhulme

[ lee-ver-hyoomor, often, -yoom ]

noun

1. Viscount William Hesketh Lever, 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer, originator of an employee profit-sharing plan, and founder of a model industrial town.

Leverhulme

/ ˈliːvəˌhjuːm /

noun

1. Leverhulme, 1st Viscount18511925MEnglishBUSINESS: industrialistPHILANTHROPY: philanthropist William Hesketh, 1st Viscount. 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer and philanthropist, who founded (1881) the model industrial town Port Sunlight

Example Sentences

There is a risk that retrograde gender stereotypes about sex and pleasure get encoded into sex chatbots, says Dr Kerry McInerney, senior research fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, at the University of Cambridge.

From BBC

There is a risk that retrograde gender stereotypes about sex and pleasure get encoded into sex chatbots, says Dr Kerry McInerney, senior research fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, at the University of Cambridge.

From BBC

He is also Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and Co-Director of AIChemy, a national research hub for the use of artificial intelligence in chemistry.

From Science Daily

AI ethicists from Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence outline three design scenarios for platforms that could emerge as part of the developing "digital afterlife industry," to show the potential consequences of careless design in an area of AI they describe as "high risk."

From Science Daily

The study was funded by the Leverhulme Trust and is part of a collaborative project between the University of Birmingham, the Natural History Museum, and the University of Bristol, in the UK, and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, in the Netherlands.

From Science Daily