Veteran broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton sadly passed away last week. He was probably best known for hosting the BBC Radio 4 show I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. To commemorate, over at Nature Network, Bob O’Hara kicked off a game of Cheddar Gorge. Meanwhile, the Information Management Group have been playing (Computer) Scientists Themed Film / Book Club, here is a shortened list of some of the competition entries…
- Schindler’s Linked List
- Das Boot
- The (sparse) Matrix
- The Silence of the Labs
- The Bourne Shell and The Bourne Identity Matrix.
- Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo Simulation
- Harry Potter and the Dining Philosopher‘s Stone
- C++, East of Java
- Girl with a Perl Earring
- There’s Something About Ruby
- American Pi
- Airplane II – The SeQueL
- Ocean’s 11++
- Ocean’s 12++
- Oceans –12
- Monty Pythons Flying C course (also…monty pythons flying circuits)
- Hash… Hash, Sweet Charlotte
- Indiana Jones: RAID-arrays of the lost Ark
- Cache 22 and Cacheablanca
- Saving Private Variable Ryan
- The Italian cron job
- Mission Intractable
Now we’ve obviously concentrated on Computer Science, but there’s plenty of scope for other science-themed film / book clubs as well. Chemists (Lord of the Benzene Rings), Physicists (Scent of a Hadron), Biologists (Dr Latex Glove: How I learned to stop worrying and love research), any other ideas? Did we miss any obvious Computer Science ones?!
Life just won’t be the same without Humph, pictured above playing his jazz trumpet by oiyou.
References
- Sam Peckinpah (1974) Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
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