i wish id had a professor like this when i was at uni. i can really see how this bloke can motivate his students. i think it would be amazing to sit through his lectures. if only there were more like him.
really great lecture, i should be studying for exams of my own but this grabbed me and i couldnt stop. bummed out he didnt finish up talking about the turing test. great prof, these humans are lucky
That made my jaw drop to the floor too, though after reading comp1917's explanation I think there might be more to it. It might be that the question was distorted in this video by not actually seeing the asker, in addition to the question itself being badly formed. We compsci majors aren't exactly known for our social acumen =) Great teacher by the way, I wish my lecturers were that enthusiastic.
@Beefy2203 yes absolutely, you are quite right - the new youtube layout makes it harder to see the description attached to the video but we did print a correction there saying exactly that when we uploaded the vid back in 2008. The actions of those three men were truly humbling.
@Blunic so strange to see this critique. I would have been enthused beyond belief to ever have a professor who was able to show half as much passion about a lecture topic.
Engrossed in the lecture but I'd like to point out that Colin Grazier (who got the enigma machine out of the German U Boat) was from Tamworth, Staffordshire ENGLAND! Not Tamworth Australia!
Invented by a Dutchman for business use. Then introduced into the German army and updated to make it more difficult to use.Especially the navy one was difficult to crack, because admiral Doenitz insisted on introducing a fourth rotorwheel.
When the teacher is strict on you to remember specific details about what he teaches BUT does not bother to correct any wrong information he enthusiastically shares about a subject outside his expertise.
When one gives a lecture about Alan Turing, it is generally a good idea to look up at least the very basic facts about his life and work beforehand, just in order to add some substance and not to end up with a talk so superficial it could have been given by Jamie Oliver just as well. It is called preparation. I don't want to sound bitter, but if education moves in that direction I'm really scared.
i'm very sorry to have upset you. the point i was inepty trying to make was computing has its roots outside of western culture. i was about to talk about a (brilliant) englishman and didn't want to give the impression that the history of computation was solely western. i strained to recall the modern location of persia (didn't it overlap pakistan?) i'm sorry as i know how annoying it is when others mistake the nationality of australians like eg ernest rutherford or sir edmund hillary.
No matter what comp science lecture at what university I watch - there's always "printf" written o the board somewhere. I find it hard to believe that every single lecture has had a reference to that SPECIFIC function of C, lol
@jonolikesbuster Godel's incompleteness theorems were first published in 1931. Slightly earlier than Godel--but unpublished until 1948--Alfred Tarski came up with similar results on decidability. Turing's results were published in 1936 in his Entscheidungsproblem paper. Alonzo Church came up with an equivalent theory in the same year. So, no, Turing wasn't the first to answer No to Hilbert's challenge about decidability.
“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.” thestrangecompany.com/product/alan-turing/
@apanapane I do too like his enthusiasm, but why do a lecture on Alan Turing and talk about Enigma when you don't know things about them? There were quite a few errors in his historical knowledge.
"Akazoweee, indian or Pakistani who envented algorithms....".....Ummm, is he talking about Mohammad ibn Musa al-Khawarizmi a scholar in the House of Wisdom in 9th Century Baghdad?
@edehin, I think you might have misinterpreted the question asked by the student. I doubt it would even cross the mind of the questioner, or indeed anyone else in the room, to equate homosexuality and pedeophilia! As discussed in previous comments below most likely the student was trying to make sense of someone being jailed for being homosexual - these days that outcome seems utterly bizzare to university students in inner-city Sydney. Perhaps he was thinking of the case of Oscar Wilde?
i love this guy but seriously, his nickname should be "tangent", cos he just flys off on so many different tangents that you forget the original point of the lecture, lol.
lol turning into a philosophy class. Anyways that TM machine is better then most computers cuz transisters use only 1's and 0's in state and the TM machine uses any state value.. but we are getting close with atomic computers
@uthman72 what the hell are you talking about? America? They're like two different continents dude. Richard's students turn out great btw. I am only now starting to grasp the real importance of the concepts he teaches. I just wish that I have thought about this sooner and moved to AUSTRALIA
Alan Turing was gay but he WASN’T a pedophile, and the ignorant UK government punished him for he sexual orientation. Yes he was a bit odd but who isn’t? it’s are right as human being to be different? it was his unorthodox methods that found solutions to unconventional problems. The fact still remain that we owe him a great deal.
Oscar Wilde wasn't incarcerated for paedophilia, he was incarcerated for loving a consenting adult man (younger than him, but Bosie was a complete adult). And the mere mention of paedophilia and homosexuality (when is faaaaar more common in heterosexuals) is insulting. It's clear the student wasn't trying to figure out if paedophilia is punished and homosexuality is not.
Many historical errors. Can't even remember if Turing studied at Cambridge or Oxford. The "pakistani guy" who invented algorithms. And the Brits who needed boats for all their "beach heads". And Colin Grazier was an Aussie. This guy is on speed!!
Few things about Turing.... First.... Don't watch "the enigma machine" movie, it's complete fantasy.... His analogue computer.and all schematics were destroyed after the war, which is kinda sad. He was gay and after the war they used this fact and the laws at the time to keep him suppressed. At this stage he was pretty much an "ordinance" and it was considered very important to secure him. This pressure leads to his eventual (likely) suicide. A true hero.
+Philip Croft Come on, it was only an extension lecture as part of a Computer Science course, not a history one. Besides, this lecture appears to have ADHD (or at least exhibits ADHD-like patters of behaviour) and such people have problems retrieving stuff from their memory in certain situations even though they actually do know the right answer.
He is not teaching history. So if his examples are not historically correct you just as well could see them as fiction. It does not really matter how you see them, they are just tools used when teaching something different. Although I have to say it would be even better if he had all the facts right (I do not know if he did/ did not).
Instructor is an dynamic speaker, but he doesn't know some of the most basic facts of the subject matter. If you don't know the facts, don't just bluff it and state guesses as if they are facts.
Negative ratings eh, for stating the truth, sounds like youtube to me. Get off your high-horse people! I'm a white westerner and I can safely say that we are very self-centric as general rule.... It's funny to watch sometimes.
If he doesn't even now that to this day in the very same and "modern" Australia homosexuals cant marry he lives in an heterocentric patriarchal bubble. So it's not much justification for his homophobia. That's homophobia: ignorance that we must suffer and breed beacuse the heterosexuals don't take the time to respect and not insult us. If I ask in a class "wasn't the girl asking for his rape?" that's not forgivable. It's an agressive, insulting, misogynistic question.
This Lecturer does not seem to know the basic historical facts in Mathematics...It is depressing listening to this...."Alkjazori"? Oh dear! The correct name is Al-Khawarizmi (c. 780-850) , "Algorithm", who is known to every student of Maths. He is Persian and not Pakistani! Pakistan as a nation had not even been created yet (created recently in the 20th century)! Alan Turing who's known to every student of Computers and Maths was a scholar at University of Cambridge, UK!
Shut up yourself: teachers shouldn't provide incorrect information. If he's so good in Math and Science, he can either stick to the subjects he controls or make proper research before speaking. Plus, it is a good idea to remember that "authority fallacy" exists. Just because someone is an authority in one topic, that doesn't mean they are infallible and are always right. So Uthman did right in pointing the mistakes out. People shouldn't believe anyone blindly, ever, not even Uni lecturers.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939. Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939. Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.
i wish id had a professor like this when i was at uni. i can really see how this bloke can motivate his students. i think it would be amazing to sit through his lectures. if only there were more like him.
really great lecture, i should be studying for exams of my own but this grabbed me and i couldnt stop.
bummed out he didnt finish up talking about the turing test.
great prof, these humans are lucky
Beautiful - simple, clear and energetic. Wish I'd had lecturers like Richard Buckland!
I have respect for this teacher's utter and complete enthusiasm.
this is the best teacher in the world
Turing's life was so terribly tragic. He understood the world in ways we could never comprehend.
cool and passionate teachers makes you want to learn. Congratz to the Prof.
He drops a few notes, but most of this is excellent. Thanks for the long post mate.
That's what i call a "Teacher". Respect to you sir!
That made my jaw drop to the floor too, though after reading comp1917's explanation I think there might be more to it. It might be that the question was distorted in this video by not actually seeing the asker, in addition to the question itself being badly formed. We compsci majors aren't exactly known for our social acumen =)
Great teacher by the way, I wish my lecturers were that enthusiastic.
I think in this video the instructor's knowledge and deeper understanding is starting to stand out.
The 8th century Arab man who invented algorithms was al-Khwarizmi. It's easy to remember his name. That's where the word algorithm came from.
Oh my god, this man is amazing. I'm a stupid kid and I hung onto every word. This is so cool.
absolute genius lecturerer , thank you
This is a passionate teacher, very cool!!!!
Excellent lecture.
Also, the part about Blade Runner? The Anime Ghost in The Shell would be a good second movie about robot sentience.
Glad to see Fasson and Grazier getting some credit. The german sub was the U559
@Beefy2203 yes absolutely, you are quite right - the new youtube layout makes it harder to see the description attached to the video but we did print a correction there saying exactly that when we uploaded the vid back in 2008. The actions of those three men were truly humbling.
thanks zero2twenty and i agree with you utterly about his brilliance and impact and that not to know him is a tragedy
@Blunic so strange to see this critique. I would have been enthused beyond belief to ever have a professor who was able to show half as much passion about a lecture topic.
great teacher, great teaching style ... :D ...absolutely
Wow! Great lecture.
Friggin' awesome lecture!
Engrossed in the lecture but I'd like to point out that Colin Grazier (who got the enigma machine out of the German U Boat) was from Tamworth, Staffordshire ENGLAND! Not Tamworth Australia!
Invented by a Dutchman for business use. Then introduced into the German army and updated to make it more difficult to use.Especially the navy one was difficult to crack, because admiral Doenitz insisted on introducing a fourth rotorwheel.
When the teacher is strict on you to remember specific details about what he teaches BUT does not bother to correct any wrong information he enthusiastically shares about a subject outside his expertise.
Watching this on the 23rd of June 2012, Turing's 100th Birthday
I want to have a lecture like this
There is a very good British movie available on DVD about the "Enigma" machine. It is called "Enigma" starring Kate Winslet.
I love this guy!
@Beefy2203 .. yes mate. You're quite right;Tamworth in Staffs. Next time I go over that way,possibly next May, I'll try to find the statue
When one gives a lecture about Alan Turing, it is generally a good idea to look up at least the very basic facts about his life and work beforehand, just in order to add some substance and not to end up with a talk so superficial it could have been given by Jamie Oliver just as well. It is called preparation. I don't want to sound bitter, but if education moves in that direction I'm really scared.
@raherecolston Like to add that Grazier was a Brit from Tamworth Staffordshire ENGLAND, not Tamworth Australia
i'm very sorry to have upset you. the point i was inepty trying to make was computing has its roots outside of western culture. i was about to talk about a (brilliant) englishman and didn't want to give the impression that the history of computation was solely western. i strained to recall the modern location of persia (didn't it overlap pakistan?) i'm sorry as i know how annoying it is when others mistake the nationality of australians like eg ernest rutherford or sir edmund hillary.
YOU ARE THE MAN H.G. (Hugo Gomez)
Turing was at Manchester.
No matter what comp science lecture at what university I watch - there's always "printf" written o the board somewhere.
I find it hard to believe that every single lecture has had a reference to that SPECIFIC function of C, lol
What year level is this subject??? surely not first year?
@jonolikesbuster Godel's incompleteness theorems were first published in 1931. Slightly earlier than Godel--but unpublished until 1948--Alfred Tarski came up with similar results on decidability.
Turing's results were published in 1936 in his Entscheidungsproblem paper. Alonzo Church came up with an equivalent theory in the same year. So, no, Turing wasn't the first to answer No to Hilbert's challenge about decidability.
i wanna be in this class, lol what is it called? i dont even pay attention in my own lectures
Absolutely!
But that doesn't pardon the way he was treated.
Probably. I make no pretense of worth or value, I'm happy with being excited over a story.
“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.” thestrangecompany.com/product/alan-turing/
exactly THANKS!
@apanapane I do too like his enthusiasm, but why do a lecture on Alan Turing and talk about Enigma when you don't know things about them? There were quite a few errors in his historical knowledge.
"Akazoweee, indian or Pakistani who envented algorithms....".....Ummm, is he talking about Mohammad ibn Musa al-Khawarizmi a scholar in the House of Wisdom in 9th Century Baghdad?
@edehin,
I think you might have misinterpreted the question asked by the student. I doubt it would even cross the mind of the questioner, or indeed anyone else in the room, to equate homosexuality and pedeophilia!
As discussed in previous comments below most likely the student was trying to make sense of someone being jailed for being homosexual - these days that outcome seems utterly bizzare to university students in inner-city Sydney. Perhaps he was thinking of the case of Oscar Wilde?
i love this guy but seriously, his nickname should be "tangent", cos he just flys off on so many different tangents that you forget the original point of the lecture, lol.
lol turning into a philosophy class. Anyways that TM machine is better then most computers cuz transisters use only 1's and 0's in state and the TM machine uses any state value.. but we are getting close with atomic computers
thanks flyzeggs
looks like John Green!
@uthman72 what the hell are you talking about? America? They're like two different continents dude.
Richard's students turn out great btw. I am only now starting to grasp the real importance of the concepts he teaches. I just wish that I have thought about this sooner and moved to AUSTRALIA
oh...kay...you alright buddy?
the tachikoma paradox.... !!!
Alan Turing was gay but he WASN’T a pedophile, and the ignorant UK government punished him for he sexual orientation. Yes he was a bit odd but who isn’t? it’s are right as human being to be different? it was his unorthodox methods that found solutions to unconventional problems. The fact still remain that we owe him a great deal.
This is just a good example of the poor education standards in America. If such are the teachers, may God have mercy of the students!
exactly, he's not sure about anything
lucky students !!
Oscar Wilde wasn't incarcerated for paedophilia, he was incarcerated for loving a consenting adult man (younger than him, but Bosie was a complete adult). And the mere mention of paedophilia and homosexuality (when is faaaaar more common in heterosexuals) is insulting. It's clear the student wasn't trying to figure out if paedophilia is punished and homosexuality is not.
Many historical errors. Can't even remember if Turing studied at Cambridge or Oxford. The "pakistani guy" who invented algorithms. And the Brits who needed boats for all their "beach heads". And Colin Grazier was an Aussie. This guy is on speed!!
@uthman72 I bet your a fun person to stand beside at a party... ;-)
Few things about Turing....
First.... Don't watch "the enigma machine" movie, it's complete fantasy....
His analogue computer.and all schematics were destroyed after the war, which is kinda sad.
He was gay and after the war they used this fact and the laws at the time to keep him suppressed. At this stage he was pretty much an "ordinance" and it was considered very important to secure him.
This pressure leads to his eventual (likely) suicide.
A true hero.
I started to watch this but he's pretty vague about a lot of facts.
I must say given the topic Richard's lack of familiarity with Turing's history is kind of appalling. :(
yea i guess. the whole bit how he died sort of sticks in the mind when you see what he did alive
The WHOLE presentation is appalling. WHO is he talking to ?--8year olds? It's like a comedy show.
This is just a chat because they finished early, not an actual lecture.
+Philip Croft Come on, it was only an extension lecture as part of a Computer Science course, not a history one. Besides, this lecture appears to have ADHD (or at least exhibits ADHD-like patters of behaviour) and such people have problems retrieving stuff from their memory in certain situations even though they actually do know the right answer.
He is not teaching history. So if his examples are not historically correct you just as well could see them as fiction. It does not really matter how you see them, they are just tools used when teaching something different. Although I have to say it would be even better if he had all the facts right (I do not know if he did/ did not).
Instructor is an dynamic speaker, but he doesn't know some of the most basic facts of the subject matter. If you don't know the facts, don't just bluff it and state guesses as if they are facts.
Giled = jailed in britain lol
Negative ratings eh, for stating the truth, sounds like youtube to me. Get off your high-horse people!
I'm a white westerner and I can safely say that we are very self-centric as general rule.... It's funny to watch sometimes.
You haven't proven that you yourself know the subject matter, so forgive us if we low rank you.
If he doesn't even now that to this day in the very same and "modern" Australia homosexuals cant marry he lives in an heterocentric patriarchal bubble. So it's not much justification for his homophobia. That's homophobia: ignorance that we must suffer and breed beacuse the heterosexuals don't take the time to respect and not insult us. If I ask in a class "wasn't the girl asking for his rape?" that's not forgivable. It's an agressive, insulting, misogynistic question.
This Lecturer does not seem to know the basic historical facts in Mathematics...It is depressing listening to this...."Alkjazori"? Oh dear! The correct name is Al-Khawarizmi (c. 780-850) , "Algorithm", who is known to every student of Maths. He is Persian and not Pakistani! Pakistan as a nation had not even been created yet (created recently in the 20th century)! Alan Turing who's known to every student of Computers and Maths was a scholar at University of Cambridge, UK!
Shut up yourself: teachers shouldn't provide incorrect information. If he's so good in Math and Science, he can either stick to the subjects he controls or make proper research before speaking. Plus, it is a good idea to remember that "authority fallacy" exists. Just because someone is an authority in one topic, that doesn't mean they are infallible and are always right. So Uthman did right in pointing the mistakes out. People shouldn't believe anyone blindly, ever, not even Uni lecturers.
@turnmeonn lol, dude is definitely not American. Nice attempt at trolling, troll.
what the hell, "was turing a paedophile?" -random.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939.
Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.
Computers were invented by Charles Babbage in 1824. The Enigma Code Machine was decrypted by three Polish men in 1932 and they gave the Enigma machine and their code book to the British in 1939. The British were able to read all German military messages from 1939.
Therefore Alan Turing was a fraud, whose handler Jack Good at Bletchley Park said, "Alan's only contribution was to claim that from a contradiction, one can deduce everything." Alan couldn't decrypt anything with his theory.