Leslie Ann Goldberg
Professor of Computer Science and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
2 episodes
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ScienceFellows of the Royal Society20th-century atheistsEnglish people of Scottish descentEnglish atheistsEnglish inventors20th-century English philosophersEnglish people of Irish descent20th-century English LGBTQ peopleCastrated peopleEnglish logicians20th-century English mathematiciansPeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsLGBTQ mathematicians, LGBTQ philosophersComputer designersTheoretical biologistsGay scientistsSuicides by cyanide poisoningGay academicsMillennium Prize ProblemsConjectures
Alan Turing
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of the founder of computer science - whose work helped crack enemy codes in WW2 - and his exploration of artificial intelligence.
15 October 2020
Also featuring: Simon Schaffer, Andrew Hodges
SciencePeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsEnglish inventorsLGBTQ mathematicians, LGBTQ philosophersComputer designersTheoretical biologists20th-century English philosophersGay scientistsSuicides by cyanide poisoning20th-century atheistsEnglish people of Scottish descentCastrated peopleGay academicsEnglish people of Irish descentEnglish logicians20th-century English LGBTQ people20th-century English mathematiciansFellows of the Royal SocietyEnglish atheists20th centuryComputationMathematicsP v NP
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss P versus NP, an unsolved problem in maths that asks if the answers to all problems can be found as easily as they can be checked.
5 November 2015
Also featuring: Colva Roney-Dougal, Timothy Gowers