University College Cork was delighted to welcome Professor Muffy Calder OBE, Professor of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, and Professor Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Berkeley, to its renowned campus. The lectures,hosted by Professor Patrick Fitzpatrick, were followed by a panel discussion and question and answer session. Desmond MacHale, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork, and author of the seminal biography The Life and Work of George Boole: a prelude to the digital age (Cork University Press, 2014) will join the panel.