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 Event listing Search Tags Event date Date from Date to Oct 24 2024 16.00 - 17.00 AI in the Natural Sciences Professor Christopher Bishop FRS FREng FRSE Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research AI for Science Further information Further information Sep 30 2024 16.00 - 17.00 Towards multi-intelligences: are we there yet? Professor Gordon Cheng, TUM Further information Further information Programme of Informatics Distinguished Lectures 2013-2023 2023 As part of the 60 years of computer science and AI celebration, distinguished researchers from both disciplines were invited to visit the School of Informatics. 60 years of computer science and AI - Distinguished lectures 2021 25th February: Dan Roth - It's Time for ReasoningNo recording available25th 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, HoloLensNo recording available5th October: Christopher Bishop - Research and the “AI Revolution”Watch the recording30th October: Ross Anderson - The Sustainability of Safety, Security and PrivacyWatch the recording 2019 7th February: Rami Bahsoon - Economics-Driven Software ArchitectureNo recording available17th September: Barbara Grosz - From Ethical Challenges of Intelligent Systems to Embedding Ethics in Computer Science EducationNo recording available5th November: Michael Kölling - Programming education as a user interface challengeNo recording available11th November: Brian Cantwell Smith - Reckoning and Judgement: The Promise of AINo recording available12th December: Mari Ostendorf - Contextualised Language Processing with Explicit Representations of ContextNo recording available 2018 15th February: Thomas G. Dietterich - Steps Toward Robust Artificial IntelligenceNo recording available28th May: David Dunson - Machine learning for scientific inferences: Debunking the hypeWatch the recording28th June: Moshe Vardi - Humans, Machines, and Work: The Future is nowNo recording available8th October: Kimberly Hambuchen - NASA Robotics Technology DevelopmentNo recording available17th December: Jon Oberlander Memorial Lecture | J.P. de Ruiter - Let robots be robotsWatch the recording 2017 27th January: David Blei - Probabilistic Topic Models and User BehaviorNo recording available 2016 24th June: Ben Shneiderman - The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough CollaborationsNo recording available27th September: Robert Ambrose - Robotic Caretakers: Enabling the Pre-Deployment Approach to Human Space ExplorationNo recording available 2015 13th May: J Strother Moore - Machines Reasoning about MachinesNo recording available16th October: Serge Abiteboul - Toward Personal Knowledge BasesNo recording available 2014 28th April: Bjarne Stoustrup - On the creation and development of C++No recording available23rd April: Dana Scott - Geometry Without PointsNo recording available 2013 7th June: Nick Jennings - Putting the Smarts in the Smart GridWatch the recording10th September: Sir Nigel Shadbolt - The Fifth Paradigm: From Open Data to Social MachinesWatch the recording11th November: Daniel Russell - Teaching 150K+ Students at a TimeWatch the recording19th November: Charles Bennett - The Quantum Nature of InformationWatch the recording This article was published on 2024-03-18
