Andrew and Kathleen Booth Memorial Lecture

The Andrew and Kathleen Booth Memorial Lecture is presented annually by world-renowned scholars and practitioners of computer science. The lecture commemorate the creation of some of the world's first electronic computers by Professor Andrew Booth and Dr Kathleen Booth at Birkbeck. Details of the Booth's pioneering work can be found in A Short History.

2022, Responsible Robotics: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

• Marina Jirotka, Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford
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2021, Where Physical and Digital Worlds Collide

• Paul Clarke CBE, former Chief Technology Officer at Ocado
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2019, BBC & Data

• Magda Piatkowska, Head of Data at the BBC
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2018, Frontiers of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

• Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering, University of Cambridge and Chief Scientist at Uber
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2017, Pioneering Women in Computing

• Vera Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley CH DBE
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2016, Science and Innovation Strategy

• Professor Andrew Blake, Founding Director of the Alan Turing Institute
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2015, The Importance of Web Science

• Professor Wendy Hall DBE, University of Southampton
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2014, The Impact of Digital Technology and Social Media on Sport

• Richard Ayers, founder and CEO of Seven League
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2013, Rich versus Right? The Technologist's Dilemma

• Ken Olisa OBE
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