Outreach
As well as doing research I am also actively involved in science communication to general audiences, particularly young people. I had the privilege of presenting the 2008
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures with the title Hi-tech Trek: The Quest for the Ultimate Computer.
The lectures were broadcast on UK national television at prime time on
five successive evenings during the Christmas period. This
was the 180th series of such lectures, which were started in 1825 by
Michael Faraday.
Here is a selection of short clips taken from the lectures:
You can watch the complete lectures below. For Apple users please download the Windows Media plug-in.
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Breaking the
speed limit
Lecture 1
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Chips with
everything
Lecture 2
High | Low |
The ghost in
the machine
Lecture 3
High | Low |
Untangling
the web
Lecture 4
High | Low |
Digital
Intelligence
Lecture 5
High | Low |
There is also an interactive web site associated with the 2008 lectures, which includes 10 games illustrating concepts from computer science, and 10 downloadable files giving details of experiments and demonstrations that can be done at home or in school.
Four of the lectures were given again in Tokyo in July 2009, and
subsequently broadcast on Japanese television. This was the 20th
anniversary year of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures being given
in Japan. You can watch the Tokyo lectures (in English, or in Japanese)
using the following links:
Lecture
1: Breaking the Speed Limit
Lecture
2: The Ghost in the Machine
Lecture
3: Untangling the Web
Lecture
4: Digital Intelligence
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Main outreach lectures and presentations
June 2010, Cheltenham Science Festival
March
2010, Cambridge Science Festival
December 2009,
Tam Dalyell Prize lecture (Edinburgh)
December 2009,
Marshalls Holiday Lecture (Cambridge)
November 2009,
Pre-Christmas Lecture, The Royal
Institution
July 2009, Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Japan (Tokyo and
Osaka)
June 2009, Cheltenham Science Festival
April 2009, Edinburgh Science Festival
March 2009, Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire
March 2009, Cambridge Science Festival
December 2008, Royal Institution Christmas
Lectures, London
November 2007, Friday Evening Discourse, The
Royal Institution
September 2006, British Science Association,
Festival of Science, Norwich
September 1994, British Science Association,
Festival of Science, Loughborough
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