Public Engagement Event in the Great Hall, QUB (Schools of HAPP and EEECS, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London & the Centre for Public History, QUB) 

Description

Speakers: Dr Ciara Rafferty (ECIT, EEECS, QUB) on the evolution of cryptography from wax tablets to the future advent of quantum computers; Professor Willard McCarty (Digital Humanities, King’s College London) on the history of encoding and decoding in ordinary life from the Middle Ages to the present. The public lectures and wine reception were organised by Dr Sinéad O’Sullivan as part of an AHRC Leadership Fellowship in conjunction with the Centre for Public History and the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, QUB. They foreground the importance of cryptography, an area in which Queen’s University Belfast has made a significant contribution through the work of Professor Maire O’Neill (Leading Cyber Security Expert, QUB) and the late Professor Keith Jeffery (Historian of MI6, Professor of British History, 2005-2016).

Period	24 Jun 2022
Event title	Public Engagement Event (Schools of HAPP and EEECS & Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and Centre for Public History, QUB).
Event type	Other
Degree of Recognition	National