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Presentations, Talks and Radio
BBC Radio Surrey – Alan Turing
067 days
Continuing my radio work, I was asked to appear on BBC Radio Surrey’s breakfast show this morning to discuss the new Alan Turing display at Bletchley Park.
Interviewed alongside Bletchley Park Trust’s Kelsey Griffin, we discussed the new exhibition, the fund-raising that led to the purchase of the papers, the personal exhibits of Turing’s on display and the man’s impact on the modern world through his ground-breaking work carried out in secret at the Park during the war.
A recording of the interview has been placed on Audioboo by BBC Surrey, and is available to stream here.
Talk Radio Europe – Google’s New Privacy Policy
080 days
I was asked to talk to Mark Curry – of Blue Peter fame – on his ‘Curry for Breakfast’ morning show for Talk Radio Europe, in order to provide an informed opinion on precisely what Google’s recently changed privacy policy means for its many users and whether those who value their privacy should be concerned at the increased amount of data sharing the new policy permits.
Despite being referred to as a writer for ComputerWorld a couple of times – for the record I’ve never written for ComputerWorld, although the publication has used extracts of my articles from other sites and publications in its stories – it went pretty well.
My section of the show is reproduced here, in MP3 format: Talk Radio Europe – Mark Curry, ‘Curry for Breakfast’ 20120302.
Arduino 20/20
0613 days
Following my Arduino article for Custom PC, I was asked to give a 20/20 presentation – twenty slides, each one of which lasts an enforced twenty seconds – on the subject for GeekUp Leeds, a monthly gathering of local techies, hackers, and tinkerers.
The presentation took place at the Lounge Bar in Leeds on the 15th of September 2010, to a pretty packed house.
The slides from the talk can be downloaded in PDF format. They’re released under a Creative Commons – Attribution – Sharealike – Non-Commercial licence, meaning that anyone is free to download, use, remix, or otherwise modify the presentation so long as it’s not used for commercial purposes and I’m properly attributed as the original creator.
If in doubt, my name plus a link to this site is enough.
