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April 1, 2012 4:35 PM
Posted By Peter Bentley
On Monday my new book Digitized was launched in Waterstones, Gower St., in an event kindly sponsored by UCL CS and supported by my publisher OUP. We had a good turnout with Peter Kirstein and many other "names" from the world of computer science coming along to participate in the event. We sold a few and I signed several for those who bought theirs on the day. A number of the researchers that I interviewed in the book were also able to come along, which was very nice.

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March 23, 2012 6:42 PM
Posted By Peter Bentley
I've been lucky enough to have my research featured in New Scientist a few times over the years, so I have a bit of a soft spot for this magazine. I like it even more now - there will be a very nice review of my latest book Digitized in tomorrow's edition. It's particularly nice to see that the reviewer has taken care and read the book in some detail.

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March 23, 2012 6:10 PM
Posted By Peter Bentley
My new book Digitized continues to get mentions and reviews in many places. With the 100th anniversary of Turing's birth approaching there have been a spate of new Turing biographies all popping up at the same time. My book, which includes Turing as well as several other important pioneers, is also being included in articles written to celebrate the achievements of this great pioneer. One example came out recently in Prospect Magazine, where some of my words are used to help end the piece:

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March 23, 2012 5:15 PM
Posted By Peter Bentley
Another day and another blog on OUP online. This is one I wrote especially for them to celebrate the publication of Digitized, describing my experiences as I held a conversation with three chatbots. As you might imagine, the conversations were a little unusual. You can see what happened here: http://blog.oup.com/2012/03/chatbot-computers-turing/

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March 22, 2012 5:15 PM
Posted By Peter Bentley
Some time ago I was interviewed on camera about my new book Digitized. We did a few versions, one with me looking off in a funny direction, which seems to have ended up as part of a new OUP blog here: http://blog.oup.com/2012/03/short-history-computer-science/

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March 19, 2012 1:59 PM
Posted By Peter Bentley
Yet more publicity for my new book Digitized - a nice little review in the journal Nature. I'd forgotten I'd written anything about Alzheimer's Disease research with computers...

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March 19, 2012 1:48 PM
Posted By Peter Bentley
Continuing the theme of my new book Digitized I was invited to write a piece for the Ideas Bank section of Wired a few weeks ago. It's now out, both in the print edition and online. I'm not sure whether that massive picture of me is really necessary! I should also add that my text was edited - when I refer to Maurice Wilkes the text should say that he created the first practical stored-program computer. See if any geeks spot that one. Here's a copy:

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February 11, 2012 3:27 PM
Posted By Peter Bentley
Last year two friends were invited to give TEDx talks. One was Tony Ruto, who worked as an RA and PhD student in the same office as me several years ago at UCL, and who is now employed by my old PhD student Siavash Mahdavi in his company. Tony asked for a few tips on what to say and what kinds of slides to show, so I gave him a little bit of advice, which he seemed to appreciate, saying: Thank once again for your guidance on creating and delivering a well received talk. Tony's talk is now available online here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FORT9vkzABw

The other was Gusz Eiben, who works on evolutionary computation - my home field of research (although I investigate a few other bio-inspired methods these days). Gusz asked for details of my tables that I evolved using a genetic algorithm - he mentions me and one of my tables at about 10:30 in the video, which is available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJX_wAKhg8A

The nice side effect of helping out is that there is now some discussion of me doing a TEDx talk later this year. Watch this space!
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Categories: Creative Evolutionary Systems, Evolutionary Design by Computers, TV Radio and public talks
 
January 22, 2012 9:48 PM
Posted By Peter Bentley
I was recently asked to participate in a British Computer Society evening dedicated to the legacy of Alan Turing. It was a fascinating event, with speakers describing different aspects of Turing's legacy to our society today - his papers; how he inspires gay people today. I spoke about Turing's contribution to Computer Science (and also took the opportunity to mention my forthcoming book Digitized briefly). It was a nice opportunity to explain the importance of Turing's ideas; if you want to watch what we all said, a video is available online at the BCS website here.

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January 9, 2012 12:33 AM
Posted By Peter Bentley
Today I was invited to attend the screening of the original Robocop movie, and then have a live chat with the audience about it. One of my more unusual public appearances perhaps! The invite came from science in the pub, who like to screen classic movies and then have an hour's discussion of the themes explored in each film with a designated expert. Our chat was also recorded by James O'Malley for the Pod Delusion - you can listen here. I think I mentioned scenes from the movie a few times so might help to see the film first!

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