Monthly Archive: January 2017
These days, forecasts about the future of Moore’s Law tend to look quite gloomy. But Intel’s outlook—at least for the next few years—is decidedly bright. Sometime in 2017, Intel will ship the first processors built using the company’s new, 10-nanometer chip-manufacturing technology. Intel says transistors produced in this...
Professor Chris Bishop examines how software affects nearly every aspect of our lives Computers represent one of the most versatile machines ever invented with the same piece of hardware being used for a huge range of different purposes. However it is the software that brings the machine to...
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Why worldview threats undermine evidence By Michael Shermer | Scientific American January 2017 Issue) Have you ever noticed that when you present people with facts that are contrary to their deepest held beliefs they always change their minds? Me neither. In fact, people seem to double down on...
In his second lecture Professor Chris Bishop reveals the state-of-the-art in computer interaction. More computers are manufactured every year than the world’s total population. But fewer than 1% of these take the form of desktop or laptop computers. As microchips get smaller and faster they are being incorporated...
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When we think about taking action sometime in the future, we tend to neglect the constraints we’ll face when the future actually arrives Here we go again. Year after year, with great confidence each time, we choose all the goals we are going to start pursuing next year....
A little history The CHRISTMAS LECTURES were set up to introduce a young audience to a subject through spectacular demonstrations and they have been inspiring children and adults alike since 1825. They have been given every year since they began, stopping only from 1939 to 1942, during the blitz...
Callum and Feifei explain colour expressions that describe different types of jobs and professions. What kind of colour would Feifei like her job to be described as? Listen to the programme to find out.