With Roger Penrose and Yvette Fuentes trying to save 100.000 hours of lectures, tons of CT, going back to early 70's

[Bob Coecke <Bob.Coecke@quantinuum.com>]

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This email concerns a request by Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, asking for help to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value.  In particular, we ask for help to create awareness for this fundraiser - e.g. on social media:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penrose-asks-support-for-the-archive-trust<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Zh87CgZ05JfAkEvPvCNfzt4kBJ8?domain=crowdfunder.co.uk>

which includes a video by ourselves in my backyard explaining things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XDXM3s2O2w<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/eKoPCjZ12Rfn9ozlzCRhZtmajQC?domain=youtube.com>

Of course, your contributions would also be very welcome.  Likely several of you are already aware of this archive, as many of you are in it of course.  It’s the life’s work of Mike Wright who since the early 70’s has spent his life mainly recording scientific talks, well before anyone was doing anything like that, resulting in 100.000 hours.  I am sure many of you must have witnessed Mike doing his recordings.

Just to mention a few names in it:

Maths/CS: Grothendieck, Atiyah, Lawvere, MacLane, Eilenberg, Cartier, MacIntyre, Dana Scott, Kreisel…

Physics: Penrose, Hawking, Wheeler, Ashtekar, Ward, Geroch, Sciama, Salam, Finkelstein, Bohm…

Philosophy: Popper, Quine, Dummett,  Davidson, Wiggins, Badiou, Redhead…

Of course, much was done with audio tapes and notes, or video tapes, which all need to be digitised.  Mike spent all of his possessions including his two houses on this - as well as on several conferences he organised and fully funded. His health is also starting to let him down a bit.  And while a substantial portion is now digitised, some work still needs doing to reach the finishing line, which could be achieved in a bit over a year.

With this email I hope that some of you will share this message on social media, possibly simply by resharing or adopting those posts that I already did on social media, or help spread the word in any other way:

Facebook:
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Twitter:
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Bluesky:
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LinkedIn:
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