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'Artificial Intelligence' part 3 - Understanding how we learn language |
Professor Kim Plunkett explains how neuroscientists use artificial intelligence as a tool to model processes in the brain – in particular to understand how infants acquire language. |
Kim Plunkett |
12 Jun 2015 |
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'Artificial Intelligence' part 2 - How to create machines that learn |
Professor Nando de Freitas explains that understanding how our brains work has helped us create machines that learn, and how these learning machines can be put to completing different tasks. |
Nando de Freitas |
19 May 2015 |
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'Artificial Intelligence' part 1 - Using artificial intelligence to spot patterns |
Professor Stephen Roberts explains how machines, whose job it is simply to learn, can help researchers spot scientific needles in data haystacks, which will help us solve some grand challenges. |
Stephen Roberts |
15 Apr 2015 |
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'Explosions' part 3 - Health and Big Data |
Professor Gil McVean explains what Big Data is and how it can be used to better understand and treat complex conditions, such as heart disease and dementia. |
Gil McVean |
30 Mar 2015 |
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"Anomalies" Part 3 - Placebos and pain |
Professor Irene Tracey explains the placebo effect and how it is a normal part of our pain system. |
Irene Tracey, Chris Lintott |
10 Feb 2015 |
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"Anomalies" Part 1 - Tinnitus |
Researcher Joshua Gold explains a condition called tinnitus, most often described as a persistent and annoying sound in one or both ears. |
Joshua Gold, Chris Lintott |
21 Jan 2015 |
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"Hidden Worlds" Part 3 - The virtual universe |
Dr Andrew Pontzen explains how chains of computers can be set up to simulate billions of years of development of the universe, but in a time period of weeks. |
Andrew Ponzen, Chris Lintott |
05 Jan 2015 |
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"Hidden Worlds" Part 2 - Robert Robinson’s chemical box |
Edward Imrie and Dr Stephen Johnston Edward Imrie and Dr Stephen Johnston talk about a surprising discovery – a collection of boxes, originally containing chocolates and soap, now full of tiny chemical vials thought to date back to the 1930s. |
Edward Imrie, Stephen Johnston |
05 Jan 2015 |
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"Hidden Worlds" Part 1 - Parallel Worlds |
Dr David Wallace discusses the concept of the multiverse – a physical reality that contains lots of universes, each of which inhabited by different versions of ourselves. |
David Wallace |
15 Dec 2014 |
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"There's no place like home" Part 2 - The People of the British Isles |
Bruce Winney describes the influx of humans to the British Isles, including the Romans, Anglo Saxons and Vikings. By comparing and contrasting the genetic make-up of patients, researchers can explore how genetics can influence disease. |
Bruce Winney |
15 Dec 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
From Argument to Experiment |
Dr Christopher Palmer on the historical ties between physics and philosophy - from ancient philosophical thought through to the scientific revolution and the pioneers of modern physics. |
Christopher Palmer, Ankita Anirban |
30 Jul 2012 |
