Hi: I arranged for Tom to be invited to Newcastle three weeks ago. (This was in order to give his “Artificial Intelligence: The Brand that Wouldn’t Die” lecture, but it also gave me an opportunity to debate further with Tom his attempted re-definition of the concept of programmability! 😊) Tom had a sizeable, and very appreciative, audience at Newcastle for his talk - I can warmly recommend others elsewhere in the UK to take up his offer to repeat this talk when he returns to the Newton Institute in March/April - and to read the excellent recent CACM series on which the talk is based. Cheers Brian Randell — School of Computing, Newcastle University, 1 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk> PHONE = +44 (0)786 7805578<tel:+447867805578> URL = https://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/staff/profile/brianrandell.html