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Royal Institute Christmas Lectures

Posted by Hemos on from the interesting-reading dept.

category9 writes "One of the best xmas tv highlights for us chaps in the UK is the RI Christmas Letures. Once broadcast by the BBC, Channel4 now have the helm. Past lecturers include the world renowed cybernetics engineer, Prof. Kevin Warwick. This year Sir John Sulston, of Human Genome Project fame, will be talking about genetics and the building blocks of life over 5 lectures. This is a must see for anyone interested in artificial intelligence. The lectures are presented in a format which allows technical detail, but in a way very accessible to those outside the particilar scientific fields. The website has transcripts for anyone not able to receive Channel4, perhaps with streams coming at a later date (lobby Channel4 if you must)."

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  1. Prof. Kevin Warwick ... by blowdart · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    World renowned? Oh please. Within the UK community the man is a joke.

    I hardly feel sticking a chip in your arm makes you a cyborg, otherwise we have a lot of cybernetic dogs out there.

  2. Re:Dumbed down for the masses. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, and they aren't allowed to have guns either. "Law abiding" (if it's even possible to be law abiding which is a pretty big assumption) Brits can't defend themselves or shoot the worthless socialists over there. I mean they can't be shooting up garbage like that... that would just be terrible to kill authoritarians. oh and really really bad and wrong! I mean everyone deserves to live... NOT.

  3. Re:Dumbed down for the masses. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Idiot.

  4. Re:Dumbed down for the masses. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    can't handle the truth, can you, Eurotrash?