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This series is host to episodes created by the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, one of the longest-established Computer Science departments in the country.
The series reflects this department's world-class research and teaching by providing talks that encompass topics such as computational biology, quantum computing, computational linguistics, information systems, software verification, and software engineering.
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 1 | Strachey Lecture: Getting AI Agents to Interact an Collaborate with Us on Our Terms | As AI technologies enter our everyday lives at an ever increasing pace, there is a greater need for AI systems to work synergistically with humans. | Subbarao Kambhampati | 12 May 2021 | |
| 2 | Strachey Lecture: How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time | Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. | Matt Ridley | 12 May 2021 | |
| 3 | Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics | Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics: Newton Abraham Lecture 2020 | Alan Garfinkel | 02 Apr 2020 | |
| 4 | Creative Commons | Strachey Lecture - The Windmills of Your Mind: Reflections of a Career in Computer Science Research | Dame Wendy Hall reflects on her career in computer science research - from intelligent tutoring systems, through multimedia and open hypermedia, to the semantic web, web science, and social machines. | Wendy Hall | 19 Nov 2019 |
| 5 | Can one Define Intelligence as a Computational Phenomenon? | Can we build on our understanding of supervised learning to define broader aspects of the intelligence phenomenon. Strachey Lecture delivered by Leslie Valiant. | Lesley Valiant | 11 Dec 2019 | |
| 6 | Strachey Lecture - Doing for our robots what evolution did for us | Professor Leslie Kaelbling (MIT) gives the 2019 Stachey lecture. The Strachey Lectures are generously supported by OxFORD Asset Management. | Leslie Kaelbling | 29 Mar 2019 | |
| 7 | Strachey Lecture - Steps Towards Super Intelligence | Why has AI been so hard and what are the problems that we might work on in order to make real progress to human level intelligence, or even the super intelligence that many pundits believe is just around the corner? | Rodney Brooks | 20 Dec 2018 | |
| 8 | Creative Commons | Strachey Lecture - Privacy-preserving analytics in, or out of, the cloud | This talk is about the experience of providing privacy when running analytics on users’ personal data. | Jon Crowcroft | 16 Apr 2018 |
| 9 | Strachey Lecture - The Continuing Evolution of C++ | Stroustrup discusses the development and evolution of the C++, one of the most widely used programming languages ever. | Bjarne Stroustrup | 12 Dec 2017 | |
| 10 | Lovelace Lecture: Learning and Efficiency of Outcomes in Games | Éva Tardos, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, gives the 2017 Ada Lovelace Lecture on 6th June 2017. | Éva Tardos, Leslie Goldberg | 22 Aug 2017 | |
| 11 | Strachey Lecture - Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People | Professor Kraus will show how combining machine learning techniques for human modelling, human behavioural models, formal decision-making and game theory approaches enables agents to interact well with people. | Sarit Kraus | 23 Jun 2017 | |
| 12 | Strachey Lecture - Probabilistic machine learning: foundations and frontiers | Professor Zoubin Ghahramani gives a talk on probabilistic modelling from it's foundations to current areas of research at the frontiers of machine learning. | Zoubin Ghahramani | 15 Mar 2017 | |
| 13 | Oxford University Department of Computer Science: Second Year Group Design Practicals | Students undertaking undergraduate (first) degrees in Computer Science, Computer Science & Philosophy and Maths & Computer Science undertake a Group Design Practical as a compulsory part of the course. | Computer Science Students | 08 Nov 2016 | |
| 14 | Strachey Lecture - The Once and Future Turing | Professor Andrew Hodges author of 'Alan Turing: The Enigma' talks about Turing's work and ideas from the definition of computability, the universal machine to the prospect of Artificial Intelligence. | Andrew Hodges, Mike Wooldridge | 02 Nov 2016 | |
| 15 | Creative Commons | Strachey Lecture - Quantum Supremacy | Dr Scott Aaronson (MIT, UT Austin) gives the 2016 Strachey lecture. | Scott Aaronson | 14 Jun 2016 |
| 16 | Artificial Intelligence and the Future | In this talk Demis Hassabis discuss's what is happening at the cutting edge of AI research, its future impact on fields such as science and healthcare, and how developing AI may help us better understand the human mind. | Demis Hassabis | 26 Feb 2016 | |
| 17 | Creative Commons | Bidirectional Computation is Effectful | A reconstruction (slides and voiceover) of a talk given at the Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (snapl.org/2015) in May 2015. | Jeremy Gibbons | 17 Nov 2015 |