The Web Science Institute is delighted to announce a Distinguished Lecture with Professor Chris Lintott of the University of Oxford.
Professor Lintott’s talk is entitled Lessons from the Zooniverse: Science with a Million People.
This talk will investigate how the web can enable science on enormous scales, look at the implications for fields from disaster relief to politics and consider the future collaboration between humans and machines. It will also include at least two images of penguins.
Chris Lintott is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford, where he is also a research fellow at New College. As Principal Investigator of the Zooniverse, he leads a team who run the world’s most successful citizen science projects, allowing more than a million people to discover planets, transcribe ancient papyri or explore the Serengeti.
A passionate advocate of the public understanding of science, he is best known as co-presenter of the BBC’s long running Sky at Night programme and the author, with Queen guitarist Brian May and Sir Patrick Moore, of two books, both available in more than 13 languages.
The lecture will take place in Education, Building 34, Room 3001 from 18:00 – 19:00.
If you wish to attend please register via our Eventbrite site
For further information please contact Sam Collins