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SUMMARY:Lord Kelvin\, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age? -
  Professor Mark Girolami FREng GRSE
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DESCRIPTION:Christ's Fellow\, Professor Mark Girolami FREng FRSE\, will be
  giving a Lady Margaret Lecture\, Lord Kelvin\, First Baron of Largs:  A F
 ather of the Digital Age?\, in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre at Christ's Colleg
 e on Monday 30 January at 5:30pm.  Professor Girolami is the Sir Kirby Lai
 ng Professor of Civil Egineering\; Royal Academy of Engineering Research C
 hair in Data Centric Engineering\; and the Chief Scientist at The Alan Tur
 ing Institute.\n\nAbstract:\n\nThe digital era we are living through is on
 e with the hallmark of breathtaking transformation and disruption in all t
 hat humanity experiences. Digital technologies are rapidly transforming ou
 r ways of living and working for both good and ill. From mobile smart phon
 es to self driving vehicles\, from Artificial Intelligence driven ChatBots
  to targeted personalised medicine\,  from computer games to cyber-physica
 l environments\, it is no exaggeration to state that we face many tipping 
 points having potentially huge societal impact. \n\nThe names of those at 
 the forefront of this age of digital transformation include Sir Tim Berner
 s-Lee and his delivery of the world web web to mankind\, or the tech pione
 ers such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs unleashing the personalised computin
 g paradigm upon us. Further back one can thank Alan Turing for the foundat
 ions of Artificial Intelligence\, and Claude Shannon for the underpinning 
 Information Theory launching the communications era\, Ada Lovelace with th
 e Analytical Engine\, or indeed James Clerk-Maxwell who provided us with t
 he mathematical unification of electricity\, magnetism and light.\n\nOne n
 ame that is seldom linked to the digital era is William Thomson\, First Ba
 ron Kelvin\, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow 
 for over half a century during the Victorian age. Given the many contribut
 ions to scientific knowledge and advances in technology this victorian pol
 ymath gave to us\, in this Lady Margaret Lecture I will consider whether L
 ord Kelvin should indeed be considered as one who helped lay the scientifi
 c and technical foundations upon which we are building the digital revolut
 ion. 
LOCATION:Yusuf Hamied Theatre\, Christ's College
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