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Oxford University

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 re...

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16 episodes

Advances in Garbled Circuits

MT25 Strachey Lecture - Professor Rafail Ostrovsky: Advances in Garbled Circuits Nearly 40 years ago, Andy Yao proposed the construction of...

48:12Oct 27, 2025

Will Computers prove theorems?

Kevin Buzzard: Will Computers prove theorems? Will computers one day replace human mathematicians? Is this just around the corner, or decade...

46:25May 15, 2025

Formalizing the Future: Lean’s Impact on Mathematics, Programming, and AI

Leo De Moura: Formalizing the Future: Lean’s Impact on Mathematics, Programming, and AI How can mathematicians, software developers, and AI...

47:14May 15, 2025

Privacy, Verification, Robustness: A Cryptographer's perspective on ML

Strachey Lecture: Privacy, Verification, Robustness: A Cryptographer's perspective on ML Cryptographic tools enable the safe use of technolo...

64:18Mar 11, 2025

From probabilistic bisimulation to representation learning via metrics

Strachey Lecture: From probabilistic bisimulation to representation learning via metrics - Professor Prakash Panangaden Bisimulation is a fu...

55:03Dec 2, 2024

Strachey Lecture: The Computer in the Sky

The talk will emphasize the diversity of mathematical tools necessary for understanding blockchain protocols and their applications The talk...

62:09May 16, 2024

Strachey Lecture: From classical to non-classical stochastic shortest path problems

Professor Christel Baier delivers the Hillary Term 2024 Strachey Lecture Abstract: The classical stochastic shortest path (SSP) problems ask...

57:09Feb 6, 2024

Strachey Lecture: How Can Algorithms Help to Protect our Privacy

In this term's Strachey lecture, Professor Monika Henzinger gives an introduction to differential privacy with an emphasis on differential p...

54:48Nov 13, 2023

Strachey Lecture: Use or Be Used - Regaining Control of AI

It’s said that Henry Ford’s customers wanted “a faster horse”. If Henry Ford was selling us artificial intelligence today, what would the cu...

50:26Sep 4, 2023

Strachey Lecture: Symmetry and Similarity

An introduction to algorithmic aspects of symmetry and similarity, ranging from the fundamental complexity theoretic "Graph Isomorphism Prob...

60:34Feb 16, 2023

Strachey Lecture: Integrating Logic, Probability and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning using Probabilistic Soft Logic

An overview of work on probabilistic soft logic (PSL), an SRL framework for large-scale collective, probabilistic reasoning in relational do...

63:39Oct 27, 2022

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. The development of C+...

58:52Dec 12, 2017

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 un...

67:22Nov 2, 2016

Strachey Lecture: Quantum Supremacy

Dr Scott Aaronson (MIT, UT Austin) gives the 2016 Strachey lecture. In the near future, it will likely become possible to perform special-pu...

72:01Jun 14, 2016

Strachey Lecture: 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...

55:08Feb 26, 2016

Strachey Lecture: 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. Bid...

5:16Nov 17, 2015