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01:07:18

Felienne Hermans: The Programmer’s Brain and Hedy

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2023/10/16

Felienne Hermans isfull professor of Computer Science Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.Felienne is the author of the 2021bookThe Programmer's Brain, a very readable and highlyinsightful introduction to the cognitive science behind how human brains learn programming. Why is programming hard to learn, and what can we do about that, both as learners and teachers?Werecommended thisfor everyone, but it isparticularly useful for those who just started to learn programming, as well as people

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01:03:44

Nutan Limaye: Computational complexity

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2022/02/18

Nutan Limaye is an associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen and an internationally leading researcher in computational complexity.Nutan’s research focus is on the most prestigious and fundamental questions in computer science, namely: which problems can be solved with limited computational resources? Her recent breakthrough result, with Srinivasan and Tavenas, received the best paper award at the Foundations of Computer Science conference in 2021 and shows that algebraic circuits of

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01:06:54

Mikkel Thorup: Digital Contact Tracing

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2020/12/14

Mikkel Thorup is professor of Computer Science at Copenhagen University and an internationally leading researcher in the theory of algorithms. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he has served on the scientific board advising the Danish authorities on the development of a national contact tracing app using mobile phones for exposure notification. We sit down with Mikkel, exposure notification apps dutifully switched on, and talk about how such an application works. The Danish system, “SmitteStop”, uses

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02:10:24

Robin Hanson: The Age of Mind Uploading

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2018/11/02

Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University and onethe world’s most influential futurists.We talk to Robin about how rigoroussocial science can help us describe a society in which “mind uploading” – the idea of simulating whole brains on digital hardware – might actuallylook. How does a society look where most minds live their lives in virtual reality, immortalsin a worldwhere labour

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01:21:57

Tim Roughgarden: The Price of Anarchy

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2018/09/17

Tim Roughgarden is professor in the Computer Science and Management Science and Engineering Departments at Stanford University. He is also a very active science communicator, hosting a popular algorithms course on the Coursera online learningplatform.Among many recognitions,Tim has received theGödel Prize for hisresearch in computational game theory, a field that residesin theintersection of two disciplines:economics and computer science. We talk to Tim about one of the central insights of that

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47:48

Claire Mathieu: College Admission Algorithms in the...

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2018/09/03

Claire Mathieu is a leading researcher in algorithms design and director of research at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France.) Claire has been involved in the 2018 redesign of the college admission procedure in France, where close to a million students apply for more than ten thousand different college programmes. At the root of the procedure is the famous and widely used Stable Marriage method of Gale and Shapley (1962), a result that was recognised with the 2012

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01:07:38

Yves Bertot: Verifying One Million Digits of Pi

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2018/04/19

Yves Bertot is a senior researcher that the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Sophia Antipolis and a leading researcher on correctness of software and the verification of mathematical proofs. Recently, his team was able to formally verify the correctness of the computation on the one millionth decimal digit of pi (which is 1, by the way), including a formally verifiable proof of the mathematics behind the formula and the correctness of the implementation of

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47:00

Sarah Pink: Digital Ethnography

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2018/02/26

Sarah Pink is a Professor of Design and Media Ethnography at RMIT University, Australia, and the author or co-editor of several books about digital ethnography. To approach this area, we get Sarah’s help with some conceptual groundwork about the methods, values, and history of ethnography, and its relation to neighbouring fields such as anthropology or cultural geography. But the conversation focusses on digital ethnography: Information technology changes not only the methods of ethnography by

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01:05:56

Roman Beck: Blockchain

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2018/02/09

Roman Beck is professor of Business Informatics at IT University of Copenhagen and the head of the European Blockchain Center. We talk to Roman about blockchain, a cryptographically secure, distributed database technology sometimes called a “trust machine.” Blockchain applications include the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, as well as various ideas for ensuring trust across institutional boundaries, such as contracts. It may also serve as the conceptual infrastructure of the next generation Internet. Which

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01:01:23

Ivan Damgård: Secure Multi-Party Computation

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2017/12/06

Ivan Bjerre Damgård is professor of theoretical computer science at Aarhus University, Denmark, and one of the world’s leading researchers in the foundations of cryptography. Among other things, Ivan is known for the Merkle–Damgård construction, which underlies many modern digital signatures. We talk to Ivan about the mathematical basics of modern cryptography, internet security, authentication, secret sharing, and privacy. This includes the emerging field of secure multiparty computation: how can

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01:06:30

Espen Aarseth: Game Studies from The Hobbit to Minecraft

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2017/10/13

Espen Aarseth, professor in Game Studies, is the Head of the Center of Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen and the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Game Studies. We talk to Espen about founding computer games research as an academic discipline, the Games study programme at ITU, what a game is (entertainment? sports? waste of time? cultural artefact? social activity? storytelling? shared illusion?), PewDiePie, how the established narratological concepts of literary theory

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53:56

Rebecca Slayton: Cybersecurity and Star Wars

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2017/09/20

Rebecca Slayton is a professor at the Department of Science and Technology Studies and Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University. We talk to Rebecca about cybersecurity, the early history of software engineering during the Cold War, the role of scientific and technological expertise in public policy, and how to think about risk and reliability. Rebecca’s book on how knowledge about computing was shaped by and influenced the development of US missile defence during

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55:21

Vincent F. Hendricks: The truth in digital society

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2017/09/19

We ask Vincent F.Hendricks, professor of formal philosophy at Copenhagen University and the director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies how to think about information, knowledge, and truth, in the internet age, where information is quickly shared or algorithmically curated, and where the model of liberal democracy, such as the public sphere, are undergoing rapid change. We talk about fake news, Trump, radical scepticism, social psychology, filter bubbles, power laws of attention

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01:17:05

Olle Häggström: Technology and the Future of Humanity

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2017/06/29

Olle Häggström is a Professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. He is also a leading Swedish public intellectual and prolific debater in science, pseudoscience, technology, and education. We talk to Olle about the potential dangers associated with various emerging technologies—how do we start thinking about the catastrophic risks that may be associated with scientific advances that we have not

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01:15:14

Carsten Schürmann: Electronic Elections

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2017/05/19

Carsten Schürmann is the leader of the Demtech research center, which studies the interplay between technology and democracy.Carsten is a world leading expert in computer security and critical digital infrastructure, with a background in the theory of programming languages and logics. We talk to him about digital democracy, in particular electronic elections, including online voting.The goal of democratic elections is the peaceful transition of government, which means that both winners and loser

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01:07:41

Toby Walsh: Kidneys, Cars, and Killer Robots

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2017/03/29

Toby Walsh is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and a prolific populariser of computer science. We talk about the mechanisms behind fair allocation of transplanted kidneys, autonomous cars, the ethics of artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision making, and killer robots from autonomous weapon systems to the Singularity. Toby’s blog is at http://thefutureofai.blogspot.com.au; his forthcoming book on many of these issues will be titled “Android Dreams.”

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58:27

Troels Bjerre Lund: Poker-Playing Bots

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2017/03/14

In early 2017, two independent research teams announced progress in artificial intelligence: Libratus from Carnagie Mellon University and DeepStack from University of Alberta. Computer programs are now able to beat the best human players in the two-player card game Heads-Up No Limit Texas’ Hold-Em Poker.But what are poker-playing bots? And how do they workwork?In this podcast Thore Husfeldt talks to Associate Professor Troels Bjerre Lund, IT University of Copenhagen, a researcher in algorithmic game

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