Computers
Science In Action. The Quantum Space Age Takes Off. Audio, 27 minutes
A Chinese satellite mission brings us one step closer to unbreakable encryption
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Demis Hassabis. Audio, 36 minutes
Demis Hassabis, AI expert, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Controlling the Unaccountable Algorithm. Audio, 38 minutes
Emily Bell asks how we can control the powerful algorithms which shape modern life.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essential. More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms. Audio, 6 minutes
How can the techniques of computer science help us in everyday life?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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David Baddiel Tries to Understand. The Cloud. Audio, 15 minutes
David Baddiel tries to make sense of the computing service called the cloud.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Computing Britain. Computers at Home. Audio, 15 minutes
How 1980s Britain grew to love the home computer. Presented by mathematician Hannah Fry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Manchester: Alchemical City. Vision of the Future. Audio, 15 minutes
A computer called Baby, Alan Turing, 25 Nobel prize winners and the wonders of graphene.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Hidden Histories of the Information Age. Leo Computer. Audio, 15 minutes
How the teashop and cake company Lyons built the first business computer in the 1950s.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Brainwaves. Series 1, Episode 4. Audio, 28 minutes
Pennie Latin investigates the effects of being surrounded by screens.
- AttributionBBC Radio Scotland
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The Turing Solution. Audio, 28 minutes
Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
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Go Digital. Is digital equality possible? Audio, 23 minutes
An action plan to help end the digital divide?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Go Digital. One laptop per child - making it a reality. Audio, 23 minutes
One laptop per child, risky or successful?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Go Digital. Creating a virtual brain. Audio, 23 minutes
Scientists attempt to build a supercomputer that simulates a human brain
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Go Digital. Ever more powerful computers. Audio, 23 minutes
The anniversary of Moore's prediction of multi-component computer chips
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Go Digital. The low-cost computer. Audio, 23 minutes
The low-cost laptop and how it could change the lives of children worldwide
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Go Digital. The $100 laptop. Audio, 23 minutes
MIT is working on a US $100 affordable personal computer for children
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Go Digital. Impact of Microsoft's EU ruling. Audio, 23 minutes
A look a how we will be using computers in the year 2010
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Go Digital. Computers and the cost to the planet. Audio, 23 minutes
The cost of digital technology to the planet
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Go Digital. How clean is your computer? Working conditions uncovered. Audio, 23 minutes
A report on unsafe working conditions in computer factories around the world
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Go Digital. Living with an internet bubble. Audio, 23 minutes
Living in a web bubble, and an update from our travel blogger in Brazil.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Go Digital. The school student e-mail that made it into space. Audio, 23 minutes
Highbrow mathematics and an internet project involving 10-year-old US school students
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Go Digital. Digital destinations - part one. Audio, 23 minutes
The first in a series of programmes about technology in the developing world
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Go Digital. Pakistan's school for computer scientists. Audio, 23 minutes
Pakistan's ambitious plans to educate thousands of computer scientists
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year