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    Data: The Past, the Present and the Future

    Data structures are the critical ingredient of all good information systems. Poor data structures lead to horrendous problems of interoperability and nightmarish complexity; good ones can make the ‘uncomputable’ computable.

    Understanding the Universe with AI

    Over the last 30 years, digital technology produced an exponential increase in astronomical data. Within our lifetime, the entirety of the visible universe will have been mapped out: we will have seen everything there is to see. The question will then be: what does it all mean?

    The Windrush Thinkers and Artists

    London in the 1950s and 60s was a crucible in which West Indian writers, artists, thinkers and scholars imagined new futures for the Caribbean, Britain and the world.

    An Introduction to Algorithms

    Algorithms, loosely translated, are systems for doing things. Algorithms are thus the link from pre-history to the modern world – without algorithms we would have an inanimate universe without all the mess and complexity of real life. It turns out that the history of algorithms is messy.

    Engels and Marx: Revolutionaries in London

    On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, his biographer Tristram Hunt looks at how both Engels and Karl Marx were deeply affected by their time in London in the second half of the 19th century.

    The World of Isaac Newton

    This illustrated lecture will cover Newton's life and his mathematical and scientific labours in the context of 17th-century England.

    The Cashless Society

    Money may well make world go round but cash is surely an encumbrance we can do without. What does a cashless society look like?

    Artificial Intelligence and Religion

    This lecture addresses the potential links between AI and religious belief, which include the question of whether an artificial “superintelligence”, were one to arise, would be well-disposed towards us.

    Is Robocop Now A Reality?

    In this lecture we will examine not only the murky world of electronic crime but also how information technology can be used to solve physical crimes.

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