IT University of Copenhagen sitecore@itu.dk https://video.itu.dk en-us Visualplatform http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss IT University of Copenhagen Stay up to date with all the things that are happening at IT University of Copenhagen. This podcast will serve you various videos and audios with accounts from scientists and actual students at IT University, and give you a glimpse into their... episodic no https://video.itu.dk/files/rv0.0/sitelogo.gif https://video.itu.dk http://video.itu.dk/photo/58001102/inaugural-lecture-by-professor <p><p>Abstract:<br></p><p>I fell in love with algorithms as aesthetically and intellectually enjoyable solutions to abstract and somewhat obscure problems many years ago. Today, these algorithms are in everybody’s pockets. Literally.</p><p>I will try to explain my view of the cognitive development that led us here, the development that transformed us from cave-dwellers to mobile phone users: The civilization-spanning history of our discovery of universal descriptions for quantities, words, and music, culminating in the descriptions of processes. That is what algorithms are: universal descriptions of how to do things.&nbsp;<br><br>Narrowing the focus from 25,000 years to the last 50 or so, to the fledgling academic discipline of Computer Science, I will then describe the changing values in the analysis of algorithms, "from correctness and efficiency to privacy and fairness." Explainability plays a big role for me in these values, and I will briefly present my own research and teaching agendas through that lens, looking both backward and forwards.</p><p>I hope that much of this makes sense to a general audience.</p></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/58001102/inaugural-lecture-by-professor"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/49543317/58001102/3c503a0ef88b3425e723b56d3a85d277/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://video.itu.dk/photo/58001102 Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:30:49 GMT Inaugural Lecture by Professor Thore Husfeldt Abstract:I fell in love with algorithms as aesthetically and intellectually enjoyable solutions to abstract and somewhat obscure problems many years ago. Today, these algorithms are in everybody’s pockets. Literally.I will try to explain my view of the cognitive development that led us here, the development that transformed us from cave-dwellers to mobile phone users: The civilization-spanning history of our discovery of universal descriptions for quantities, words, and music, culminating in the descriptions of processes. That is what algorithms are: universal descriptions of how to do things.Narrowing the focus from 25,000 years to the last 50 or so, to the fledgling academic discipline of Computer Science, I will then describe the changing values in the analysis of algorithms, "from correctness and efficiency to privacy and fairness." Explainability plays a big role for me in these values, and I will briefly present my own research and teaching agendas through that lens, looking both backward and forwards.I hope that much of this makes sense to a general audience. Abstract:I fell in love with algorithms as aesthetically and intellectually enjoyable solutions to abstract and somewhat obscure problems many years ago. Today, these algorithms are in everybody’s pockets. Literally.I will try to explain my view... IT University of Copenhagen 49:59 <p><p>Abstract:<br></p><p>I fell in love with algorithms as aesthetically and intellectually enjoyable solutions to abstract and somewhat obscure problems many years ago. Today, these algorithms are in everybody’s pockets. Literally.</p><p>I will try to explain my view of the cognitive development that led us here, the development that transformed us from cave-dwellers to mobile phone users: The civilization-spanning history of our discovery of universal descriptions for quantities, words, and music, culminating in the descriptions of processes. That is what algorithms are: universal descriptions of how to do things.&nbsp;<br><br>Narrowing the focus from 25,000 years to the last 50 or so, to the fledgling academic discipline of Computer Science, I will then describe the changing values in the analysis of algorithms, "from correctness and efficiency to privacy and fairness." Explainability plays a big role for me in these values, and I will briefly present my own research and teaching agendas through that lens, looking both backward and forwards.</p><p>I hope that much of this makes sense to a general audience.</p></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/58001102/inaugural-lecture-by-professor"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/49543317/58001102/3c503a0ef88b3425e723b56d3a85d277/standard/download-9-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> inaugural lecture Professor Thore Husfeldt