Chris Bishop, chief research scientist at Microsoft Research in
Cambridge and professor of computer science at the University of
Edinburgh, presented this year's
traditional
Royal Institution Christmas lectures.
He presented five talks on different aspects of computing. The
talks will be televised between 29 December 2008 and 2 January 2009
on Channel Five.
One lecture, called "Chips With Everything", features radio
frequency identification (RFID).
As part of this presentation, RFID firm CoreRFID provided a
short demonstration of an imaginary supermarket check-out to show
how RFID chips make it possible for computers to interact with the
things around them.
