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Speech Processing: How to Wreck a Nice Peach

Why has it taken so long to crack the speech processing puzzle? Why do we find speech processing so effortless and machines find it so daunting? And what progress can we expect in the next few years?

Has the Internet Changed News for Better or Worse? 250 Years of Technology

What can we learn from history about how deeply the internet could transform news in the 21st century? And how does it relate to broader social and economic trends?

Gothic London: Recreating the Ancient City on Screen

The earliest London-made films showed the Victorian city doing everyday business, before its fictional screen image became increasingly shadowy and sinister.

What Does Gothic Mean For Cinema?

Gothic or ‘gaslight’ films show a shadowy and sinister vision...

Where was the First Cinema?

Prof. Ian Christie argues why this is hard to answer...

Media Reporting of Medical Advances: Helpful or Misleading?

The media and medicine have different perspectives. This lecture will use examples of how the public may be misled and consider the implications of such misunderstanding.

What Really Happened at the First Moving-Picture Shows

Moving pictures may not have been the innovation once claimed, but within a decade few could doubt that they had become a major force in changing the Edwardian world.

Many televisions, baby monitors, central heating and even light-bulbs are already connected to the internet but this is only the start. Why is this happening? How will all this data be processed? And what are the benefits and the risks?

The 19th Century Craze for Stereoscopic Photography

Stereoscopic photography rapidly became a worldwide craze after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cheap viewers and mass-produced stereographs brought startlingly vivid images within reach of a mass audience, making this the form in which most people first encountered photography.

Multimedia 1900: Experience and Entertainment in Everyday Life

Suppose we try to imagine a 'day in the life' of some Londoners in 1900, what would we find?

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