Cambridge Series at the Hay Festival - 26 May - 5 June 2016, Hay-on-Wye, Wales
29 May, 1pm - Robot intelligence versus human intelligence
How intelligent (or not) are robots, is it a good thing that they can steal our jobs, and will robots ever take over the world? Dr Fumiya Iida is a Lecturer in Mechatronics at Cambridge University.
30 May, 10-11am - The strange rebirth of nuclear power in Britain
Twenty years ago the UK stopped building nuclear power stations. Why are we now planning an £18 billion French-Chinese nuclear power station? Simon Taylor is lecturer in finance at Cambridge University.
2 June, 11.30-12.30pm - Fortune favours the prepared mind
The tale of a scientist, a physician, his patient and her headache. Discoveries in medical sciences follow the adage coined by Louis Pasteur, ‘Fortune favours the prepared mind.’ The minds of Professor Jim Huntington and Dr Trevor Baglin were prepared by eight years of scientific and clinical cooperation in the field of blood coagulation when a patient with an unusual clotting profile presented at A&E…
Also speaking from the University of Cambridge were Professor John Robb, Professor Richard Evans, Professor Tim Whitmarsh, Dr Christine Corton, Professor Gary Gerstle and Professor Jonathan Haslam. Bridget Kendall, soon to be Master of Peterhouse, is also speaking.
As part of the University's broadcasting contribution to the Festival, the next two episodes of Sarah Dillon's Literary Pursuits series on BBC Radio 3 will be broadcast at the beginning and end of the Festival: https://www.csah.cam.ac.uk/news/sarah-dillon-investigates