This event will include a full day of activities and talks, Trustee, Staff and Team updates as well as project restorations and more..
This event is exclusively for paying Supporters of The National Museum of Computing.
We are delighted to be welcoming our valuable Supporters back to the Museum this year. For those that are unfortunately unable to attend this event in person, we will be arranging the opportunity to join us virtually. We will endeavour to record as much of this event as possible, so that the content can be shared with any who are unable to attend all/part of the day.
There is much to update you on, so we have scheduled a full day of activities for you!
The Schedule:
10:30-10:45 - Refreshments -Welcome and Heritage quiz
10:45-11:05 - An Update from the Supporters liaison group
11:05-11:25 - Thank you from Trustees / Staff overview of The Accreditation
11:25 -12:45 - Partner Lecture- Mike Griffiths -During WW2, there was a secret radio listening station, situated just outside the quiet village of St Erth in West Cornwall. It was ‘Ultra’ secret which was the name given to all things associated with Bletchley Park. Controlled by the Radio Security Service (RSS), which was the listening arm of MI6, it was one of 6 such stations located across the UK. They were literally the ‘ears’ of Bletchley Park.
My late father (Harry Griffiths) worked at the station as a radio operator and, on discovering his Code Book after his death, I was able to piece together the far reaching purpose of the St Erth station which was to listen in to the world of espionage - gathering Enigma generated Morse Code from the German and Italian Secret Services, Double Agents, and many of the war’s major campaigns. His Code Book is full of radio nets, webs, Call Signs and Brevity Codes and, with the help of the RSS Archivist and surviving veterans, I have been able to unravel much of its content. The station continued on well into the ‘Cold War’ years - still Listening to the Enemy.
12:45- 13:15 - Lunch
13:20:14:05 - Project Update: tbc
14:05-14:25 - Refreshments
14:30-15:30 -Partner Lecture : Executable Biology
Prof Jasmin Fisher is a Computational Cancer Biologist in the Cancer Institute at University College London. She has developed a new approach to understanding the biological mechanisms underpinning cancer evolution and resistance to treatment called “Executable Biology”. In Executable Biology cancers and treatments are modelled as if they were interacting computer programs. By using software verification techniques like “model checking” she can then prove properties about how a cancer would evolve by itself and how that could be changed by carefully timed combination and sequential therapies. The ultimate goal of this work is to develop a “Clinical Advisor” that will enable personalised, highly targeted cancer treatment to improve patient outcomes. In this talk she will outline “Executable Biology” and some of the results to date.
Please Note: If you are attending this event in person and have special dietary requirements which need to be considered, please contact us at museum@tnmoc.org prior to the event to let us know, so that suitable catering can be arranged for you.
