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  1. What Really Happened in Y2k? (2017)

    Subject
    Information technology; Technology

    Grehsam College lecture by Professor Martyn Thomas. As the year 2000 approached, many people feared that computer programmes storing year values as two-digit figures (such as 99) would cause problems. There...

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  2. Banking on Bitcoin (2017)

    Director
    Christopher Cannucciari
    Producer
    David Guy Levy
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Online

    After years of underground development bitcoin has grabbed the attention of not just the public but the banks and regulators too. Is ‘the most disruptive invention since the internet’ a real threat to...

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  3. Why Planes Vanish (2014)

    Director
    Miles O’Brien; Tristan Quinn
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology

    Television documentary. The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014 stunned the world. In an era of smart-phones and GPS, how could a 270-ton passenger jet vanish? The programme tells the...

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  4. Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means Business (2013)

    Producer
    Mike Hally
    Subject
    Business studies; Information technology

    Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate ‘open source’ computer software. Much has been said about the likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little about how...

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  5. Religion, Conflict and Digital Communication in the Greater Muslim World (2013)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Religious studies; Technology

    As much of the day-to-day work of governance and social change move online, so do religious organisations, using the World Wide Web to build coalitions or ‘manufacture constituencies’ to pursue social...

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  6. Social Media @ Work (2011)

    Subject
    Business studies; Information technology

    A short video (13 minutes) on the benefits that the use of social media can bring to internal communication within businesses. There is disconnect between how immersed and digitally connected employees are...

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  7. College Conspiracy (2011)

    Subject
    Economics; Education

    This video sets out to debunk the belief that Americans with college degrees earn $1 million more in lifetime income compared to high school graduates without a college degree. It analyses the total cost of...

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  8. Dylan William on the Key to ‘World Class Schools’ (2011)

    Subject
    Education

    Teaching guru Dylan Wiliam gives his take on improving England’s schools in an interview organised by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in 2011. (10 minutes)

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  9. Money As Debt (3 Parts) (2011)

    Director
    Paul Grignon
    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 47, 77, 54 minutes), Can$ 26.95 each

    A three-part series by Paul Grignon on the origins of the current global crisis and how it might be resolved. The first two parts MONEY AS DEBT (REVISED EDITION) and MONEY AS DEBT - PROMISES UNLEASHED, look...

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  10. Equinox: Near Miss (2010)

    Director
    Jeremy Llewelyn-Jones
    Producer
    Emma Bowman
    Subject
    Aviation

    Behind the scenes of air traffic control in NewYork, the world’s busiest airspace. There’s a dramatic rise in the number of near misses, is this due to the sheer volume of traffic? Near-misses are...

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