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Next Meeting: Prof Paul Newman of Oxford Robotics

October 15, 2018

Paul Newman is the BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford. He is Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute within the Department of Engineering Science. The ORI enjoys a world leading reputation in mobile autonomy - developing machines which roll, walk, poke, swim and fly in the real world. His focus lies on pushing the boundaries of navigation and autonomy techniques in terms of both endurance and scale. In 2014 he founded Oxbotica - a spinout company focussed on Mobile Autonomy. He was elected fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the IEEE with a citation for outstanding contributions to robot navigation.

Month	Day of Month	Speaker	Title
February	21st	Dr James Luke	Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence
March	14th	Mr Simon Wright	Gene Editing and Intellectual Property Law
April	25th	Prof David Howey	Energy storage technologies - batteries and beyond
May	23rd	Dr Mohammed Al-Ubaydli	Patient-Centred Medicine
June	12th	Dr Vinton G Cerf	Google and the Internet
September	18th	Mr Romain Kidd	3D Printing
October	15th	Prof Paul Newman	Mobile Autonomy
October	28th	Dr Gary McLean	Towards a Vaccine for the Common Cold

2019 Programme

Provisional dates for 2019 are as follows:

Month	Day of Month	Speaker	Title
February	12th	Dr David Kingman	Small Modular Fusion.
March	12th	[Kevlin Henney]	Software Failure
April	2nd
May	7th
June	4th
September	11th
October	1st
November	5th