🔔NEW: The 2022-3 @GreshamCollege programme is now out. From the sciences to the arts, humanities, business - and more - we have 120 lectures for you! https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/lecture-series-2022-23 We are welcoming five new Gresham Professors including Professor Ronald Hutton, a world-leading expert on paganism who is giving a series of lectures on Finding Britain's Lost Gods; Professor Myles Allen, the Physicist behind Net Zero, whose first year of lectures is Why Net Zero?; Professo

What is the rich & diverse history of computers? Computers: A History #GreshamLecture Even the most humdrum of electrical devices nowadays contains at least one computer; yet surprisingly few people are aware of their history, their form or function. In this talk we will see that not only is the history of computers rich and diverse, their architecture likewise. Astonishingly, all the computers ever made can be modelled by one universal machine – the Turing machine. Gresham Professor of IT @Rich