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Tue, 25 Feb 2020 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Register Lecture: Mapping subterranean Britain's tubes

Ordnance Survey uncovers the Blighty beneath your feet

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Thu, 23 Jan 2020 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GPS?

New decade, independent geo-time keeping

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Thu, 28 Nov 2019 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Register Lecture: Is space law 'hurting' commercial exploration?

Staying safe in Musk's brave new world

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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Register Lecture: The Death of the Gods - through a Tweet darkly

Journey into the future of disruption with Carl Miller

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Wed, 26 Jun 2019 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Register Lecture: Hidden heroes of Alan Turing's Enigma

Code-breaking and beer

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Wed, 22 May 2019 / 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Register Lecture: Spamming the Final Frontier

Smart strategies for ambitious space invaders

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Wed, 24 Apr 2019 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Register Lecture: A.I., driver: teaching self-driving cars human

Road rage against the machines

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Thu, 14 Mar 2019 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Register Lecture: Can big science keep up with discovery?

Lessons from LHC - world’s largest scientific machine

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Wed, 06 Feb 2019 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Register Lecture: Right to strike when the boss sells your AI to the military?

Principles and work for Google – it's been known to happen

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Wed, 16 Jan 2019 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Register Lecture: For AI's sake - taming the wild data frontier

Blighty's metrology experts define terms

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Wed, 14 Nov 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Great breaking gravitational waves - upgraded. LIGO's next cosmic act

Re-discovering the final frontier with Professor Mark Hannam

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Thu, 27 Sep 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Saving the internet, fake news warts and all

Tired of trolls? You won't win by controlling the internet, argues senior lecturer Paul Bernal

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Wed, 23 May 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

The Register Lecture: How to build your own tractor beam

Bristol's Dr Asier Marzo on acoustic levitation

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Register Lecture tackles Existential Risk
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 / 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

AI turning on us? Let's talk existential risk

Dr Adrian Currie talks diaster, technology, AI, and human extinction

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Tue, 20 Mar 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Secret Spitfires

The amazing story of the UK's WW2 underground plane building programme

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Tue, 27 Feb 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Detecting Deception

Profs Coral Dando and Thomas Ormerod discuss a new approach

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Wed, 31 Jan 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

What will drive our cars when the combustion engine dies

The NPL's Dr Gareth Hinds discusses the electric car dream and reality

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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The secrets of Power in the digital age

Carl Miller explores the new players reshaping politics and society

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Tue, 17 Oct 2017 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Platform wars and the enemy in geek and hacker culture

Bryan Alleyne on why geeks will never, ever, ever get along

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Tue, 23 May 2017 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Jamie Bartlett: The radicals intent on remaking your society

Radicals introduces us to the most secretive and influential movements today

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Kate Devlin Register Lecture
Wed, 19 Apr 2017 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dr Kate Devlin: Sex, AI, Robots and You

The history and the state of the art of love droids

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Andy Stanford-Clark lecture
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The internet of things: why your home will be the first to succumb

IoT pioneer Andy Stanford Clarke on his wired home, and world

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Tue, 28 Jun 2016 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Prof. Murray Shanahan: What does Cognitive Robotics mean to me?

Top academic on robots, AI and Go

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Wed, 22 Jun 2016 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Prof. Chris Welch: Making Money in Space

Leaving the planet may be about to get much easier

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Tue, 01 Dec 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Peter Moore: I went to work as an SQL programmer and left as a hostage

The techie who became a hostage in Iraq

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Tue, 17 Nov 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Anders Sandberg: We can programme you to live forever

Top academic on transhumanism for all

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Wed, 24 Jun 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Computing: From Cutting Edge to Museum Piece

The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley

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Thu, 04 Jun 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tim Worstall: How the economics of rare metails really add up

The economics of resources and why you won't find a Ferrari in a scrap yard

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Jamie Bartlett delivering Register Summer Lecture
Thu, 21 May 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Jamie Bartlett: Light and Dark on the Internet

Author of the Dark Net dives deep into Internet sub-cultures

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Tue, 09 Dec 2014 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dr Geraint Jones: What planet should we be on?

The UK's space scene and our chances of a new planetary home

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Tue, 02 Dec 2014 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Duncan Campbell: GCHQ and me

A unique insight into what makes him, and the surveillance state, tick

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Tue, 25 Nov 2014 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Mark Whitehorn: Big Data, Big Problems

The nature of data, Darwin, and Henslow

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