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Digitized book launch and signings
On Monday my new book Digitized was launched in Waterstones, Gower St., in an event kindly sponsored by UCL CS and supported by my publisher OUP. We had a good turnout with Peter Kirstein and many other "names" from the world of computer science coming along to participate in the…
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Mention of Digitized in Prospect Magazine
My new book Digitized continues to get mentions and reviews in many places. With the 100th anniversary of Turing's birth approaching there have been a spate of new Turing biographies all popping up at the same time. My book, which includes Turing as well as several other important pioneers, is…
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New Scientist review of Digitized
I've been lucky enough to have my research featured in New Scientist a few times over the years, so I have a bit of a soft spot for this magazine. I like it even more now - there will be a very nice review of my latest book Digitized in…
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OUP blog - Three conversations with computers
Another day and another blog on OUP online. This is one I wrote especially for them to celebrate the publication of Digitized, describing my experiences as I held a conversation with three chatbots. As you might imagine, the conversations were a little unusual. You can see what happened here: http://blog.oup.com/2012/03/chatbot-computers-turing/
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OUP blog - A short history of computer science
Some time ago I was interviewed on camera about my new book Digitized. We did a few versions, one with me looking off in a funny direction, which seems to have ended up as part of a new OUP blog here: http://blog.oup.com/2012/03/short-history-computer-science/
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Article in Wired UK
Continuing the theme of my new book Digitized I was invited to write a piece for the Ideas Bank section of Wired a few weeks ago. It's now out, both in the print edition and online. I'm not sure whether that massive picture of me is really necessary! I should…
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Digitized in Nature
Yet more publicity for my new book Digitized - a nice little review in the journal Nature. I'd forgotten I'd written anything about Alzheimer's Disease research with computers...
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