16 CAMBRIDGE CLIMATE LECTURE SERIES: FROM COP21 TO ZERO GLOBAL EMISSIONS Join Lord Martin Rees, Professor Kevin Anderson and Oliver Morton of the Economist to discuss what changes we will need to make if we are to avoid climate chaos and meet the aspirations of the Paris Climate Agreement. 6.30PM – 8PM ≥ ≥ THU 16 MAR
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Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA
Fri 17 Mar THE FIRST NIGHT OF TELEVISION This is the 80th anniversary year of the first live BBC TV broadcast. The event was faithfully reconstructed for BBC4 by Dallas Campbell and engineers Hugh Hunt and Danielle George. Dr Hugh Hunt shares the story of John Logie Baird, his ‘flying spot’ camera and the curious cast of singers, jugglers and dancers who made up that first primitive night of television. 5.30PM – 6.30PM ≥ ≥ FRI 17 MAR
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Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, CB2 3RS
EREBUS VOLCANO: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SHACKLETON AND SCOTT Professor Clive Oppenheimer explains what has been learned about how volcanoes work from observations of the southernmost active volcano, Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. The island was the base for missions led by Shackleton and Scott. Their studies paved the way for subsequent investigations and the traces they left provide a tangible link between past and present scientific endeavours. Presented with Cambridge University Press 6PM – 7PM ≥ ≥ FRI 17 MAR
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Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane, CB2 1RW WHY IS MY AI SO RACIST? THE PITFALLS OF DATA SETS, NEURAL NETWORKS AND TWITTER-BOTS Artificially intelligent systems are woven into our lives, used to predict crime statistics to speech patterns. They’re powerful, flexible and fast but not without flaws: from an AI beauty contest that judged white features to be the most attractive, to unintended racial profiling by police camera software. So how do we get around this and how do we deal with the biased systems that already exist?
Great for families 7PM – 9PM ≥ ≥ FRI 17 MAR Keynes Hall, King’s College, King’s Parade, CB2 1ST
WHO OWNS US? Explore the knotty and fascinating issues associated with the medical use of patient material such as tissue, cells and antibodies and patient data. Panelists George Freeman MP, Gareth Williams and others discuss the moral, economic, familial, legal, medical and ethical issues arising from the question ‘Who owns us?’ Presented with Cambridge Enterprise 7.30PM – 9PM ≥ ≥ FRI 17 MAR
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Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, CB2 3RS
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