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Lovelace Lecture

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This is an annual lecture where the winner of the Lovelace Medal is given an opportunity to present a public lecture on their work.

The Lovelace Medal was established by the BCS in 1998. Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and scientist who worked with, and was an inspiration to, the computer pioneer Charles Babbage.

Dr Hermann HauserBCS Lovelace Lecture 2012

Title: Computer Architectures
Speaker: Dr Hermann Hauser
Date: Thursday 17 May 2012
Venue: Institute of Physics (IOP) 76 Portland Place, London 

 

Past lectures and slides

Past lectures

2011 Lecture
Professor John Reynolds talked about 'Making Program Logics Intelligible' in London on 8 June 2011.

2010 Lecture
The BCS Lovelace Lecture 2010 was entitled 'What will a companionable computational agent be like?' and was held on 7 July 2010 in London.

2009 Lecture
The BCS Lovelace Lecture 2009 was entitled 'The Sins of IT Projects and why they can fail' and was held on 13 May 2009 in London.

2008 Lecture
The BCS Lovelace Lecture 2008 was entitled 'What do we mean? Computational approaches to natural language semantics' and was held in London.

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