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1,000 Years of Calculators

In this lecture, Professor of Geometry Harold Thimbleby explores the...

Children can use gadgets faster than adults. What does this...

Moore's Law predicts substantial, sustained improvement in computing power. Yet...

Why were video recorders so difficult to use? Is there...

Every so often there is a panic when computers succumb...

Computers need not just automate what is already being done...

Keeping secrets is one of the earliest inventions of civilisation...

Today's computers don't understand us. In the future we will...

This is the 2001 'Sir Thomas Gresham Annual Lecture'

Professor Richard Susskind explains how the UK courts and the...