Science Society
| Created: | 2013-02-26 15:16 |
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| Institution: | Wolfson College |
| Description: | A collection of lectures organised by the Wolfson College Cambridge Science Society. |
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This collection contains 14 media items.
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Dr Andrew Herbert OBE: EDSAC: The World's First Practical Electronic Digital Computer
It is not generally known that the world’s first practical ‘stored program electronic digital computer” was designed and built in Cambridge by a team at the University’s...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Mon 3 Jun 2013
Dr Hannah Siddle : How does cancer become an infectious disease?
An aggressive contagious cancer has emerged in the Tasmanian devil, a carnivorous marsupial endemic to the island of Tasmania. Known as Devil Facial Tumour Disease or DFTD , the...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Mon 9 Dec 2013
Dr Pau Figueras: May the force (of gravity) be with you: general relativity, black holes and beyond
Black holes are one of the most fascinating objects in Nature, so much so that they often feature in science fiction movies! But, why is that we find them so interesting? In this...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Mon 10 Mar 2014
Dr Samuel Aaron: Sonic Pi: Teaching Computer Science with Music
In the UK the school education system is experiencing radical reform. This is particularly the case with computing. There’s momentum to separate ICT from Computer Science and to...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 18 Jun 2013
Dr Samuel Aaron: Sonic Pi: Teaching Computer Science with Music
In the UK the school education system is experiencing radical reform. This is particularly the case with computing. There’s momentum to separate ICT from Computer Science and to...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 18 Jun 2013
Dr. Pradipta Biswas: ‘Inclusive Human Computer Interaction - from Indian farmers to Eurofighter Typhoon pilots’
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is a multi-disciplinary field investigating the boundary between man and machine. With the advent of electronic interactive technologies during...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Fri 30 May 2014
Dr. Whitney Scott: “The role of perceived injustice in chronic pain: Outcomes, mechanisms, and opportunities for...
Perceived injustice in the context of chronic pain has been operationally defined as an appraisal of the severity and irreparability of pain-related loss, unfairness, and blame.
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Thu 10 Dec 2015
Jan Filochowski : Thoughts on the current crisis in the NHS and how to resolve it: getting from lose/lose to win/win
A discussion of the present situation in the NHS.
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Mon 16 Nov 2015
Mat Cook: Kinect: You Are The Controller - The Inside Story!
The inside story of how Kinect – Microsoft’s 3D human pose recognition technology – was developed. How it happened, how it works, and how Microsoft Research Cambridge developed an...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 26 Feb 2013
Professor Ben Allanach: The Dark Matter Mystery and the Large Hadron Collider
The existence of dark matter solves some mysteries in astronomical observations, and fits in with the measurements of the afterglow of the big bang. Otherwise, it is hypothetical...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 12 Nov 2013
Professor Dame Janet Thornton: The impact of the genomic revolution on medicine and agriculture
The advent of cheap genomic sequencing will undoubtedly have an impact in translational research. This will involve many different sectors, including medicine, environmental...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Mon 29 Apr 2013
Professor Gillian Murphy: Nature vs nurture: dissecting the tumour ecosystem
We have made tremendous progress toward understanding the genetics of tumours in the past four decades, but it is only recently that the importance of the microenvironment, has...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Tue 26 Feb 2013
Professor John Barrow: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe
We will describe the modern picture of the expanding universe and the astronomical evidence for it. The inflationary universe theory will be described in simple terms together...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Mon 28 Oct 2013
Professor Paul Murdin: Planetary landscapes
Mankind has stood on, viewed and photographed only one other world beyond the Earth – the Moon – but has explored others out to the planet Saturn by proxy, with landed cameras,...
Collection: Science Society
Institution: Wolfson College
Created: Mon 20 May 2013