Continental loss: the quest to determine Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level change
For over 50 years scientists have been working to understand Antarctica’s contribution to sea level. For much of this time there has even been disagreement about if this massive ice sheet is growing or shrinking. In 2012, advances in data analysis....
More details | Watch nowThe History of the Web Part I: the First 20 Years
Join Professor Wendy Hall FRS as she speaks about the development of the World Wide Web over the past twenty years. She is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Her research interests include the development of web technol....
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There are two rules for making an optical microscope; the lenses must be small, since defects of colour and focus increase with lens size, and the lenses must capture light from the object over as wide an angle as possible to record fine detail. This....
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The aim of programming the global computer was identified by Robin Milner and others as one of the grand challenges of computing research. The Internet, however, has brought with it a different style of computation that operates in a style different ....
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This talk is about harnessing human time and energy to address problems that computers cannot yet solve. Although computers have advanced dramatically in many respects over the last 50 years, they still do not possess the basic conceptual intelligenc....
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People Sense refers to the remarkable capacity of humans to sense and have a commonsense understanding of others' affective-cognitive states and behaviors. The ability to understand and predict people's behavior varies from person to person and even ....
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