- Saturday 13 December 2008
- 6.00pm start
- Lecturers: Prof Chris Bishop
The impact of computers increased dramatically when they were connected together to form the internet. But how does information make its way across the internet, through hundreds of computers to the right destination? How does a search engine find the web page you want amongst billions of possibilities in a fraction of a second? What will the web be like in years to come? And is your credit card number safe when you send it over the internet? In this lecture Chris Bishop will untangle some of the mysteries of the web. He will reveal one of the most surprising results in computer science, and will show how it is used to make web pages secure. We will discover ways of scrambling information to stop eavesdroppers from reading it, and we will see how quantum physics can provide us with a totally secret way to transmit data over the internet.
Booking information:
Booking opens 9.30am Monday 1 September
Tickets:
Faraday Members £8
Members £17
Non-members 11-17 £13
Non-members 18+ £23
Family ticket £64
Booking is essential, and adults must be accompanied by an 11-17-year old. Family tickets can only be purchased by calling the Events Team on 020 7409 2992.
If you don't manage to get a ticket for the Christmas Lectures make sure you tune in to Five over the Christmas period to catch them again.
