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Lansdown Lecture: Bamber Gascoigne on Digital History
+ Date: Tuesday 17 April 2007
+ Time: 4:45pm for one hour
+ Location: Middlesex University, London, EN4 8HT
Cat Hill Campus: Room 137.
Admission is free.
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Lansdown Lecture: Bamber Gascoigne on Digital History
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The evolution of a digital idea - HistoryWorld and TimeSearch
Yesterday is history. After lunch, this morning is history. Bamber Gascoigne's raw material is
events of any kind, whenever they may have happened.
In his digital history and chronology projects, Bamber Gascoigne is exploiting to the full the
potential of the Web to make accessible huge quantities of information in a way which is not only
manageable but enjoyable to use.
About the speaker:
Bamber Gascoigne is a distinguished television presenter and author.
He is best known as the first quizmaster of the UK's University Challenge (1962-87) and as the
author-presenter of TV documentaries (his 13-part series The Christians has this month been
issued as a set of DVDs). But his main working life has been as an author, in the past ten years for
the internet. His two websites, HistoryWorld and TimeSearch, contain about 1.5 million words -
the equivalent of ten books.
He has devoted much of his time to establishing the online history sites History World and
TimeSearch.
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Forthcoming Lansdown Lectures:
+ Jennifer Sheridan - Tuesday 17 April 2007
Digital Live Artist and Computer Scientist
+ Jon Kingsbury - Wednesday 25 April 2007
Head of External Supply, BBC Future Media & Technology
BBC 2.0 - Time to re-invent the British Broadcasting Corporation?
Jon Kingsbury explores why the BBC needs to change radically and what its options are for the
next 5 years.
+ Paul Brown - Tuesday 1 May 2007
Paul Brown, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics and
Department of Informatics, University of Sussex on Drawbots: Computational Intelligence,
Creativity and Cognition
Paul will talk about the Drawbots project and the philosophical and artistic issues of mechanised
artwork, set in the context of his own long-term artistic investigations.
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Stephen Boyd Davis
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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The Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/
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