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Digital

Changing the colour of dinosaurs and creating the unbreakable code, the digital world is constantly reinventing the past and shaping our future. Researchers are pushing the boundaries of the known world, join us to find out more! 

Events

	A colourful past – how can we reconstruct the colours of extinct animals Talk, 5.30pm - 6.15pm, Yorkshire Museum Tempest Anderson Hall Find out how recent advances in Molecaular Palaeontology help to find out what colour large, extinct animals - such as dinosaurs and marine reptiles - had.
	ChartEx: Medieval charters meet artificial intelligence Exhibition, 5.30pm - 10pm, King's Manor Refectory The aim of ChartEx project was to train computers to read, understand and reconstruct the contexts of medieval charters with the ultimate goal of making such digital resources more accessible and useful to the general public. Find out more about this exciting collaboration of technology and heritage!
	Intelligent games and game intelligence Exhibition, 5.30pm - 10pm, King's Manor Refectory Discover how "mining" data from videogames helps to better understand game players and make better games with more believable in-game characters.
	Diagnosing and monitoring Parkinson’s disease using Evolutionary Algorithms Exhibition, 5.30pm - 10pm, King's Manor Refectory; Talk, 8pm - 8.15pm, King's Manor KG/07 Find out how technology developed by Dr Stephen Smith, along with Consultant Neurologists Dr Stuart Jamieson and Dr Jane Alty of Leeds General Infirmary allows us to measure dyskinesia more accurately than ever before.
	Making magic in the movies Interactive family talk, 6pm - 7pm, York High School It's often said that The Shambles is York's equivalent to J. K. Rowling's famous magical shopping street. But how might you transform the real life Shambles into the mystical alley of the movies?
	The history of the Internet: An extraordinary journey Exhibition, 6pm - 10pm, King's Manor Refectory; Talk, 6.45pm - 7pm, King's Manor KG/07 Watch videos of people who actually built the internet, and find out what really happened at this exhibition and accompanying talk explaining the internet’s astonishing journey.
	Quantum cryptology Talk, 8.50pm - 9.20pm, King's Manor KG/07 Roger will introduce some research going on in York that is beginning to open the door to a fundamentally new cryptographic paradigm. Come along to find out how using 'quantum bits' in cryptography allows us to do what would otherwise be impossible.