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Yorick Wilks - 22 August 2011 - Media & Technology

Frank Ramsey, the economist and philosopher, died at 26 though his fame may outlive that of his brother, who became Archbishop of Canterbury and lived to a great age. In an after-dinner speech he once tried to show in a few minutes that conversation is impossible ...

Yorick Wilks - 11 July 2011 - Media & Technology

Yorick Wilks, Professor of Artificial Intelligence (Emeritus) at the University of Sheffield, writes on the ambivalent nature of UK legislation towards data privacy. A great deal of reform and clarification are needed on the conflicts between Data Protection legislation and the Freedom of Information Act: we need to ...

Administrator CPS - 14 March 2011 - Media & Technology

A guest post from our intern - David Gibson Last Thursday, I attended a lecture by Prof Brian Cox at the Royal Geographic Society. The event was the Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture in aid of Save the Rhino International. Besides conserving endangered pachyderms and trying to explain ...

Ryan Bourne - 01 February 2011 - Media & Technology

As a free-market conservative, the BBC has long troubled me. There is no doubt that it produces some excellent programmes. In fact, it is usually my first port of call when I switch on in the evenings. And in all honesty – compared to my ...