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- https://futureoflife.org
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- Science and Technology
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- Computing, Technology
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Podcasts produced by the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a Boston-based charity and outreach organisation working to ensure that artificial intelligence technologies are beneficial for humanity. The FLI Podcast features its Director of Media, Ariel Conn, in conversation with prominent researchers, policy experts, philosophers, and other influential thinkers. The AI Alignment Podcast series covers and explores the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of AI alignment through conversation with technical and non-technical researchers across areas such as machine learning, governance, ethics, philosophy, and psychology.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bq6j1
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- Science and Technology
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- Computing, Mathematics
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
BBC podcast looking at 70 years of computing history. Milestones highlighted include: the design of automatic calculating engines in the 1940s, the first office computer in the 1950s, the Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment, the first efforts to link early computers, the coming of cheap microprocessors in the 1970s, the arrival of Microcomputers to British classrooms and then to most homes, early generation of programmers of video games, and the dotcom Bubble, the design and build of the ARM chip which can be found in most mobile devices. Episodes are presented by Dr Hannah Fry and are available indefinitely.
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- https://coventryuniversity.podbean.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Art, Computing, Design, Economics, Education, History, Mathematics, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Sports Science
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This collection of podcasts features freely available recordings of lectures and talks from Coventry University. The podcasts are arranged according to category, which cover the full range of academic subjects, are arranged according to faculty and subject area as well as broader topics relating to the university itself.
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bq6j1/episodes/downloads
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- Science and Technology
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- Computing, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Series of podcasts in which mathematician Hannah Fry looks back at 75 years of computing history to reveal the UK’s lead role in developing the technologies we rely on today, from the development of computer memory in the 1940s and the invention of packet switching in the 1950s, to the home computer boom of the 1980s, the development of the billion dollar computer game industry and the dot com boom and bust in Great Britain between 1999 and March 2000.
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- http://www.scienceandsociety.net/podcasts/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Biology, Computing, Environmental Studies, Genetics, Medicine
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Science and Society, launched in June 2003, was one of the first-internet radio programmes, and the site claims that it was one of the first in the United States to introduce downloadable podcasts as a value-added service. The podcasts present interviews with more than 600 world leaders in science, industry, and education. It focuses on Environmental conservation and sustainable energy policy, Medical breakthroughs, including cancer research, genetics and genomics, and bioengineering, Nanotechnology, Space exploration, Robotics and computer science and K-12 science education. The podcasts can be searched by themes such as Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Robotics and AI and Stem Cell Research. Each entry incorporates information about the speaker and bullet points summarising content.
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- Link
- http://omegataupodcast.net/
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- Science and Technology
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- Computing, Engineering, General Science, Mathematics, Physics, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A podcast which covers a range of subjects in science and engineering. The episodes are in either English or German (ie. they’re not bilingual). All episodes are published under the Creative Commons Non-Derivative Licence 3.0. The podcast is wide-ranging, covering computer science, artificial intelligence, game theory, astronomy and antimatter.
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- https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science
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- Science and Technology
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- Computing, Engineering, General Science, Geography, Geology, Physics
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Web Links
This is the website of the Oral History of British Science programme. At the heart of the project are 100 interviews with British scientists about environmental science, British technology and engineering from 1940 to the present. The home page provides a good introduction to the project: it features short audio and video clips, with transcripts, of scientists and engineers talking about their lives and careers.
Users can search by themes (including education and lab work, and also by scientific discipline. The site also includes links to articles and papers written by members of the project team.
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- http://www.hellointernet.fm/
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Computing, Information Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
CGP Gray and Brady Haran talk about the internet in this ten episode ‘experimental’ podcast. Intellectual property and the question of ‘Copyright and the web’ is a subject to which the pair frequently return. The casual, conversational tone belies the interesting and thought-provoking content which will be of interest to anyone concerned with the ‘evolving conversation’ of the internet.
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- http://ask-the-techies.blogspot.co.uk/
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Computing, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This series of podcasts and accompanying videos explains aspects of technology, specialising in multimedia. The focus is on Macs but the podcast deals with PC Windows issues as well. It began in 2005 and the last podcast was in 2011 but the archive of 150 episodes is still available. The site requires Blip Player but the series is also available on YouTube.
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- https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-global-lab/id445573792?mt=2
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- Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Computing, Development Studies, Geography, Information Studies, Law, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Produced by the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, this series of podcasts considers the impact of technology on cities and global connectivity. Drawing on the expertise of mathematicians, information scientists, lawyers, digital humanities researchers and museum curators amongst others, the podcast, which follows a magazine format, looks at how technology affects all our lives, but is of particular interest for those interested in urban analysis and social complexity.
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