Churchill CompSci Talks
Each week, students, fellows and veteran practitioners deliver presentations on topical, pertinent and pressing issues in Computer Science. The talks are technical in nature and consider implications and opportunities for Computer Science in the modern society. This enables everyone to explore cutting-edge aspects of Computer Science outside the confines of the University lecture syllabus which is set 18 months in advance. Topics are wide-ranging, across both theoretical and practical areas of Computer Science.
The talks are public and everyone is welcome to join us. You can enjoy some of the previous talks on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUyBk6W5OKWUQRiQhP1Zhzg
In addition to the regular schedule, we often host talks from external speakers and organisations. If you’re looking for a stage to share your latest project with the world, please get in touch!
COVID -19 Adjustments for the 2020/21 academic year: Speakers will mostly present from the Wolfson Hall in Churchill College to make the recording and live-streaming of the talks run smoothly. Those who wish to watch the talks may do so either online or in-person. Attendance in person is subject to social distancing requirements, and a one-way system in place in the Wolfson Hall. Members of the University of Cambridge can watch the weekly live-stream via Microsoft Teams; please email the talk organisers for access. Please check back here as these arrangements may be revised in response to changing circumstances.
Contact: Matthew Ireland ; Dr John Fawcett ; MΓ‘rton ErdΕs
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Understanding the Source Coding Theorem: A Talk on Shannonβs Entropy
Representing words for NLP (An introduction to Semantic Vector Space Models and GloVe)
The Signal Protocol for end-to-end encryption in chat clients
Communication Complexity
Image Segmentation: Breaking it down
Introduction to Blockchain
Text Data Mining using Topic Modeling
A comparison of three modern filesystems
Things you thought you couldn't do in Java
Whimsical Networking: the Past, the Present, and the Future
Fault tolerant systems
Safe modern C++
Randomised computation
Where did that come from? An introduction to Sound Localisation
Distributed hash tables
Deep Learning
Zero Knowledge Protocols
Turing Tar-Pits
A History of Lambda Calculus
An Introduction to Analogue Computing
How to make Auto-tune? Harmonic Audio Pitch Detection and Correction
Evolutionary Computation
Mobile ad-hoc networks
When will We See Princess Leia?
Security in Computer Entertainment
Data compression techniques in theory and practice
Big Numbers
An Introduction to Bioinformatics
Electronic Warfare
Introduction to Separation Logic
MapReduce: Processing Big Data
Motion Commotion: Using Hidden Markov Models in Gesture Recognition
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Operating System Internals
N-grams
Lighting Effects in Real Time Rendering
Optical Mark Recognition using commodity hardware
Rhythmic Analysis of Musical Recordings
Google products you might not know about
Computer Vision
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Kai Tanna-Shah, Churchill College.
Wednesday 12 October 2022, 19:30-20:00