I had a very interesting chat today with Julian Wilson, book and manuscript specialist at Christies. He explained to me why the Turing papers are so important, how extremely rare they are, their connection with the leading thinking in mathematics ...
You may have read my two posts last November about the Turing papers: Bletchley Park needs you! and Turing, Christies and Steve Wozniak. A great chap called Gareth Halfacree started a campaign to buy the Turing papers for Bletchley Park. He set up...
I met Patrick Sammon, President of Story Center Films, last year when he was over in London. We share a love of Alan Turing and respect for his immense legacy and spent a happy couple of hours discussing just that in one of my favourite London res...
#BCSsocial was a great event! 120 people came along to hear what our fabulous speakers Jemima Gibbons, Joanne Jacobs and LJ Rich had to say. My humble thanks to them for their energy and wisdom. I Chaired the event and asked the audience at the be...
I had a great day yesterday. Following on from Google's wonderful offer of $100,000 towards the purchase of the Turing papers (currently still ongoing) I yesterday took Peter Barron, Director of External Relations at Google up to Bletchley Park. W...
Every year I organise a joint BCS central London branch/BCSWomen event. It is always fun and hopefully controversial :)This year is no exception. The speakers are of absolutely excellent calibre and well known in their respective fields. It promis...
Im one of the organisers of the 2nd International Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering. (Web2SE 2011), co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering to be held in Hawaii in May 2011. Please consider submitting a pape...
According to Twitter these are people similar to me....Im in such great company :)) I wonder what the algorithm is that works it out?? :)) @CharltonBrooker @ThisisDavina @Paul_Clarke @Twitter
This morning I got involved in a conversation on Twitter with @EmmaFirth and @JamesFirth. Emma's platinum wedding ring had broken, she tweeted this: I had a look at her and husband @JamesFirth's tweets and thought...that's not right! Along with se...