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  1. Taking London to the World: Robert Paul Shows His Native City in Motion (2019)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    Second in a series of three lectures in which Professor Ian Christie explores key moments in the portrayal of London in cinema over the past century, and what these portrayals may mean locally and...

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  2. 19th Century Craze for Steresoscopic Photograhy, The (2018)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    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,...

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  3. Gothic London: Recreating the Ancient City on Screen (2018)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    First in a series of three lectures in which Professor Ian Christie explores key moments in the portrayal of London in cinema over the past century, and what these portrayals may mean locally and...

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  4. It from Bit: The Science of Information (2018)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Physicist John Wheeler asked the famous ‘It from bit?' question: what if at its heart the universe is not a collection of particles, forces and fields but rather a collection of bits? If this is true, it...

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  5. Speech Processing: How to Wreck a Nice Peach (2018)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Alexa, Siri and Cortana are among a number of voice-enabled digital assistants that can not only speak to us but understand us. Sci-fi films had talking computers many years ago. Why has it taken so long to...

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  6. Computer Vision: Machine That See (2018)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Human vision seems so effortless: from a young age we see the world in high- definition colour. We can tell the difference between a cat and a hat, and ‘The man who mistook his wife for a hat’ is an...

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  7. Deep Learning: Miracle or Snake Oil? (2018)

    Subject
    Information technology

    Machine Learning has had several excitements over the years with machines that are modelled on the human brain. The invention of the perceptron and artificial neural networks were followed by intense...

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  8. Epidemics, Pandemics and How to Control Them (2018)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    Some infections come in repeated epidemic waves, others are new to human populations. A known human threat such as influenza may mutate or a new infection jumps the species barrier from animals to humans:...

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  9. Infections and the Brain (2018)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    The brain is well protected against most infections, but once they get into or around the brain they can cause fatal or serious long-term consequences. Some bacterial, viral and parasitic infections are...

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  10. Infections and the Nerves (2018)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    Certain infections have a particular impact on the peripheral nerves as part of their normal disease process. Some infectious effects are predominately on the motor nerves such as polio (currently heading...

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