Events
We work closely teams across The University of Manchester, including the Institute for Data Science and AI and the Christabel Pankhurst Institute for health technology research and innovation to host machine learning-related seminars, workshops and much more.
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Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics
13:00 - 15:00 29 October 2026
A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All events will run from 13:00 to 15:00 and will be hosted at the University of Manchester. Event...
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AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Aurelien Bibaut
11:00 - 12:00 11 November 2026
Our invited speaker on 11 November will be Aurelien Bibaut from Netflix. Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Bio: Bibaut received his PhD from Berkeley under the supervision of Mark van der Laan from whom he learned semiparametric statistics. His recent research interests include experimental design, nonparametric instrumental variables methods, reinforcement...
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Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind
13:00 - 15:00 26 November 2026
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All...
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The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem
13:00 - 15:00 28 January 2027
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All...
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“It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs
13:00 - 15:00 25 February 2027
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All...
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