Alan Turing - Celebrating the life of a genius
Saturday 23 June 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing - mathematical genius, hero of the WWII code breakers of Bletchley Park, and father of modern computing. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer and pioneer of computer science who possessed one of the greatest
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INTERVIEW AT CIRM: PETER SARNAK
Peter Sarnak is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He is known for his work in
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Alan Turing - Celebrating the life of a genius [2012]
Description: Saturday 23 June 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing - mathematical genius, hero of the WWII code breakers of Bletchley Park, and father of modern computing. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer and pioneer of computer science who possessed one of
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Sir Alan Cobham returns to London (1929)
EMPIRE NEWS NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA35BGFYTPNMMRJKAGFNYD4BMXW-SIR-ALAN-COBHAM-RETURNS-TO-LONDON Aviation pioneer Sir Alan Cobham returns to London on completion of a tour of Britain. Full Description: SLATE CARD INFORMATION
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TRANSPORT: Aviation: 22,000 Mile flight (1928)
EMPIRE NEWS NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA479R08Q8IQQJEZFHHB90OH12O-TRANSPORT-AVIATION-22000-MILE-FLIGHT Sir Alan and Lady Cobham reach Plymouth after their great round - Africa survey flight. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION:
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Cohomology for computer science - Alex Lubotzky
https://www.math.ias.edu/seminars/abstract?event=83684
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The Abel Prize announcement 2021 - Avi Wigderson and László Lovász
0:49 The Abel Prize announced by Hans Petter Graver, President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 1:38 Citation by Hans Munthe-Kaas, Chair of the Abel committee 10:22 Popular presentation of the prize winners work by Alex Bellos, British writer, and science communicator 17:43
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Interview at Cirm: Terence TAO
Terence Tao (born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics. He currently focuses on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, algebraic combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, geometric combinatorics, compressed sensing
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Air Refuelling - The Hidden Force Multiplier
Fasthosts Techie Test competition is now closed! Learn more about Fasthosts here: https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/curiousdroid Air refuelling is the hidden force enabler allowing those countries with this ability to project their airpower around the world. Far from just the process of refuell
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People of Science with Brian Cox - Dame Wendy Hall on Alan Turing
Computer Scientist Wendy Hall talks to Brian Cox about one of her personal heroes, Alan Turing, and discusses how his discoveries influenced so much in the modern world. Find out more about Alan Turing in our Google Arts and Culture exhibit: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/peopl
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Boris Adamczewski : Aléa, automates et transcendance
HYBRID EVENT L'étude du caractère aléatoire de la suite des chiffres de certains nombres réels donne lieu à des problèmes classiques, comme la conjecture de normalité des nombres algébriques ou la conjecture de dimensions de Furstenberg (1969). Malheureusement, notre capacité à les appréhe
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Fabien Durand - Sur le Théorème de Cobham (Part 2)
Sur le Théorème de Cobham (Part 2) Licence: CC BY NC-ND 4.0
From playlist École d’été 2013 - Théorie des nombres et dynamique
Campaign for the Turing Tenner
This year is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing. Turing was a mathematician, father of computer science, and WWII code breaker. To celebrate his life there is a campaign to put a picture of Turing on the back of the next ten pound note. This would be amazing if it happened. UK citiz
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Dr Anthony Lee, University of Warwick
Bio Anthony Lee has been an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Warwick since 2013. He received BSc. and MSc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, and a DPhil. in Statistics from the University of Oxford in 2011. He was a Centre for Resea
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Abraham Laboriel Bass Player Live 2014, Lifetime Achievement Award
Kala U•Bass endorsee Abraham Laboriel was awarded the Bass Player Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014. We are proud to have Abraham as an endorsee of our California U•BASS® series, hand-built in Petaluma, California: https://kalabrand.com/pages/california-ubass-series Abraham h
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Teaching a computer to refuel an aeroplane
For a pilot, air-to-air refuelling is one of the most difficult and dangerous procedures to perform. Automating the process would not only eliminate the risk of human error but would also cut down the number of pilot hours required for training. Jonathan du-Bois, an engineer at Bristol Un
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ArrrrCamp 2013 - Pirate Power Play: How to do computation by playing games
By Daan van Berkel Every pirate likes to play games. Whether to pass the time during long sea voyages or entertain fellow pirates around the drinking table, games are a wonderful pastime. Unfortunately the captain does not always understand. Would it not be great to have a proper defense
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Alan Turing's lost radio broadcast rerecorded
On the 15th of May 1951 the BBC broadcasted a short lecture on the radio by the mathematician Alan Turing. His lecture was titled “Can Digital Computers Think?” and was part of a series of lectures which featured other leading figures in computing at the time. Unfortunately, these rec
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Alan Turing and Number Theory - Yuri Matiyasevich (St. Petersburg) [2012]
slides for this talk: http://videolectures.net/site/normal_dl/tag=694395/turing100_matiyasevich_number_theory_01.pdf Alan Turing Centenary Conference Manchester, 2012 Alan Turing and Number Theory Yuri Matiyasevich, St.Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Aca
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