A series of distinguished lectures which aim to present excellent speakers exploring intriguing topics in an engaging style. The Informatics Distinguished Lectures address a broad audience, that includes all members of the School of Informatics, members of the University and the general public. Invitations to provide a Distinguished Lecture are issued by the Head of School on the recommendation of the School's Director of Research and the Director(s) of the relevant Research Institute(s). If you are from outside the School of Informatics and would like to receive announcements of these lectures please subscribe to our lectures mailing list. Subscribe to the lectures mailing list Link to the programme of the 60 years of computer science and AI Distinguished Lectures Programme of Informatics Distinguished Lectures 2013-2021 Expand all Collapse all 2021 25th February: Dan Roth - It's Time for Reasoning No recording available 25th August: Professor Emily M. Bender - Meaning Making with Artificial Interlocutors and Risks of Language Technology Watch the recording 2020 28th January: Andrew Fitzgibbon - Making Computer Vision Systems that Work: Boujou, Kinect, HoloLens No recording available 5th October: Christopher Bishop - Research and the “AI Revolution” Watch the recording 30th October: Ross Anderson - The Sustainability of Safety, Security and Privacy Watch the recording 2019 7th February: Rami Bahsoon - Economics-Driven Software Architecture No recording available 17th September: Barbara Grosz - From Ethical Challenges of Intelligent Systems to Embedding Ethics in Computer Science Education No recording available 5th November: Michael Kölling - Programming education as a user interface challenge No recording available 11th November: Brian Cantwell Smith - Reckoning and Judgement: The Promise of AI No recording available 12th December: Mari Ostendorf - Contextualised Language Processing with Explicit Representations of Context No recording available 2018 15th February: Thomas G. Dietterich - Steps Toward Robust Artificial Intelligence No recording available 28th May: David Dunson - Machine learning for scientific inferences: Debunking the hype Watch the recording 28th June: Moshe Vardi - Humans, Machines, and Work: The Future is now No recording available 8th October: Kimberly Hambuchen - NASA Robotics Technology Development No recording available 17th December: Jon Oberlander Memorial Lecture | J.P. de Ruiter - Let robots be robots Watch the recording 2017 27th January: David Blei - Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior No recording available 2016 24th June: Ben Shneiderman - The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations No recording available 27th September: Robert Ambrose - Robotic Caretakers: Enabling the Pre-Deployment Approach to Human Space Exploration No recording available 2015 13th May: J Strother Moore - Machines Reasoning about Machines No recording available 16th October: Serge Abiteboul - Toward Personal Knowledge Bases No recording available 2014 28th April: Bjarne Stoustrup - On the creation and development of C++ No recording available 23rd April: Dana Scott - Geometry Without Points No recording available 2013 7th June: Nick Jennings - Putting the Smarts in the Smart Grid Watch the recording 10th September: Sir Nigel Shadbolt - The Fifth Paradigm: From Open Data to Social Machines Watch the recording 11th November: Daniel Russell - Teaching 150K+ Students at a Time Watch the recording 19th November: Charles Bennett - The Quantum Nature of Information Watch the recording This article was published on 2024-03-18
