Ian Greenstreet was invited to visit University of Manchester, School of Computer Science by the Head of the department to discuss the biggest and most inspiring ideas in computer science. The school was recently ranked number one UK University for Research Environment. Ian was involved in discussions with the leaders of innovation at the university and the likes of Steve Furber (responsible for the first ARM microprocessor and winner of the BCS Lovelace Medal 2014) on big data, intelligent robotics and artificial intelligence and text mining and data generation and analysis.