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Text Mining: How Do Computers Understand Language?

In this lecture, we provide a brief history of text processing and look towards the future when the computer sonnet or love poem might become a reality.

AI and Education: The Reality and the Potential

This lecture will consider the current reality of AI in education and its transformative potential.

Dying in Today's World

The concept of a ‘good death’, and how it can be achieved will be discussed, including the importance of open conversations with children being bereaved. Discussion will also tackle some of the issues around physician- assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Political Spending on the Internet

Government officials in the UK and the USA have struggled to find effective ways to regulate political spending on the internet. The question of appropriate regulation is challenging - both in practice and principle.

Infections of the Abdominal Organs

Our gut is permanently full of large numbers of bacteria but serious infections rarely occur due to its extraordinary immune system. Public health has reduced but not eliminated transmission of these potentially dangerous infections.

Deep Learning: Miracle or Snake Oil?

In this lecture, we will explore how deep learning works, what it can do and if neural networks are a modern miracle or yet another false dawn.

How Will We Learn Maths in the Future?

Mathematics education is changing rapidly and a big driver for this is the use of new technology. In this talk, we will look at the modern developments of computer based teaching and learning.

The Myth of the Lone Heroic Surgeon

People often think that surgery is about the skill of a single surgeon. In fact operations depend on teamwork, with nurses, surgeons, anaesthetists and technicians all playing vital roles as they work together.

Justice Online: Are We There Yet?

In the third of his three annual lectures, Joshua Rozenberg reports on what has been achieved so far and asks how close we are to delivering online justice.

Infections of the Lung and Heart

Infections via the respiratory route are often the most difficult to combat via public health measures.

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