@stephenfry: The noble @Dr_Black has her @unbounders book on Bletchley Park out now. #BPark How the war was shortened…
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http://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/261567705331679233
“The noble Dr Black” has the ring of a first class Bond Villain, but in this case it’s Dr Sue Black, computer scientist, and friend of Bletchley Park.
Bletchley Park was the centre of code code breaking during World War 2, and home of not just pop heroes like Alan Turing and Tommy Flowers, but apparently thousands of bright young minds.
The work they did there not only saved millions of lives, and cut the war short by 2 years, but was the genesis of the modern computer.
@Dr_Black used social media in a campaign to help save Bletchley Park, and has written about this in an “unbound” book. You can support publication of Dr Sue Black’s book by pledging at: http://unbound.co.uk/books/saving-bletchley-park
You can hear Dr Sue Black provide the opening keynote at the JISCEL12.
The Keynote is titled: “Innovation, Innovation, Innovation” and will be looking at “What could be more important than helping others to learn?”.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference12/programme/opening_keynote.aspx
Register for the conference.
The fee for Innovating e-Learning 2012 remains unchanged at £50.
Current JISC projects are eligible for one free place, please contact Rob Englebright for details: r.englebright@jisc.ac.uk
