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Description: It’s March 1951. Alan Turing has just completed the programming manual for the Manchester Mark 1, one of the world’s earliest forms of computer. 💻 Fast forward to the summer of 1952 and his colleagu

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It’s March 1951. Alan Turing has just completed the programming manual for the Manchester Mark 1, one of the world’s earliest forms of computer. 💻 Fast forward to the summer of 1952 and his colleague, Christopher Strachey is using the machine’s capabilities to randomly generate love letters. It’s computer art and creative programming. It’s novelty. It’s a precursor to modern natural language processing and AI. On the eve of Turing’s birthday, we celebrate arts and humanities, science and innovation, and LGBT+ history with the Humanities Research Centre’s inaugural Annual Interdisciplinary Lecture with our guest, Dr Troy Astarte. Their work focuses on sharing diverse stories from the history of computer science to shape a socially-aware generation of students. Join us online on Monday 22 June from 5pm to learn more. #UniversityOfYork #PrideMonth

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