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Strachey Lectures
This series covers the Strachey Lectures, a series of termly computer science lectures named after Christopher Strachey, the first Professor of Computation at the University of Oxford. Hosted by the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, the Strachey Lectures began in 1995 and have included many distinguished speakers over the years. The Strachey Lectures are generously supported by OxFORD Asset Management.
Episodes
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Michaelmas Term 2026 with Professor Alastair Beresford: Hiding in plain sight: the promises and pitfalls of secret communication
This lecture explores the topic of secret communication through the design and deployment of CoverDrop, a secure communication system designed in collaboration…
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Hardening Digital Infrastructure: Two Examples
Trinity Term 2026 Strachey Lecture with Professor Srđan Čapkun, Hardening Digital Infrastructure: Resilient Positioning and Sovereign Smartphone Architectures…
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An AI stack: from scaling AI workloads to evaluating LLMs
Hilary Term 2026 Strachey Lecture with Professor Ion Stoica, An AI stack: from scaling AI workloads to evaluating LLMs Large language models (LLMs) have taken…
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Advances in Garbled Circuits
MT25 Strachey Lecture - Professor Rafail Ostrovsky: Advances in Garbled Circuits Nearly 40 years ago, Andy Yao proposed the construction of “Garbled Circuits,”…
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Will Computers prove theorems?
Kevin Buzzard: Will Computers prove theorems? Will computers one day replace human mathematicians? Is this just around the corner, or decades away? Can neural…
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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 systems work…
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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 technology platforms…
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From probabilistic bisimulation to representation learning via metrics
Strachey Lecture: From probabilistic bisimulation to representation learning via metrics - Professor Prakash Panangaden Bisimulation is a fundamental…
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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 will emphasize the…
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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 asks to find a policy…
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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 private algorithms…
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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 customer call for, “a…
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Strachey Lecture: Symmetry and Similarity
An introduction to algorithmic aspects of symmetry and similarity, ranging from the fundamental complexity theoretic "Graph Isomorphism Problem" to…
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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 domains and a…
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Strachey Lecture: How Are New Technologies Changing What We See?
There has been a proliferation of technological developments in the last few years that are beginning to improve how we perceive, attend to, notice, analyse…
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Strachey Lecture: Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals: audio and wearable data analysis for health diagnostics Wearable and mobile devices are very good proxies for human behaviour. Yet, making the…
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Strachey Lecture: The Quest for Truth in the Information Age
The advantages of computing for society are tremendous. But while new technological developments emerge, we also witness a number disadvantages and unwanted…
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Strachey Lecture: Getting AI Agents to Interact and 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. As AI…
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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…
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Strachey Lecture: Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics
Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics: Newton Abraham Lecture 2020 Lecture by Professor Alan Garfinkel (2019-2020 Newton Abraham Visiting Professor…
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Strachey Lecture: 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…
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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. We, as robot…
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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…
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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. The two-sided market of Cloud Analytics emerged almost…
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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++ started in 1979…
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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. Selfish behaviour can often lead to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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-purpose quantum…
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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 healthcare, and how…
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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. Bidirectional…