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Can Machines Think?

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Christmas Science Lectures
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Can machines think? How can we test computers for intelligence? Edward Grefenstette delivers a lively presentation about artificial intelligence.
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Christmas Science Lectures
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Edward Grefenstette
Keywords
computers
intelligence
Turin machine
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 17/12/2013
Duration: 01:00:50

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Prime Numbers

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Christmas Science Lectures
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Dr Richard Earl of the Mathematical Institute, Oxford presents a talk about prime numbers. What they are and their role in internet security.
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Christmas Science Lectures
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Richard Earl
Keywords
maths
numbers
prime numbers
Internet security
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 17/12/2013
Duration: 00:47:53

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Speaking Truth to Power: Social Policy in Action - Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2013

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Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures
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The 2013 lecture 'Speaking Truth to Power: Social Policy in Action' delivered by Baroness Lister of Burtersett on 4th of December 2013 in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College.
The Department of Social Policy and Intervention celebrates its Centenary this academic year. A major lecture, delivered by Baroness Lister of Burtersett and introduced by the Chancellor of the University, Lord Patten of Barnes.
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Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures
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Ruth Lister
Chris Patten
Keywords
social policy
poverty
Department: Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Date Added: 17/12/2013
Duration: 00:59:20

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The Global Governance of International Migration: What Next?

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Kellogg College
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A panel discussion hosted by Kellogg College on Friday 29th November 2013. The panellists discuss the global governance of migration, migrant rights and development.
The regulation of international migration and migrant rights are among the most contested public policy issues around the world. In 2013-14 a series of high-level policy meetings (including the High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in New York, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Stockholm) will debate the global governance of migration, migrant rights and development. Do we need more global governance of international migration? If so, why and what should it aim to achieve? How, if at all, should international migration be integrated in the post-2015 development agenda?
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Kellogg College
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Robin Cohen
Paul Collier
Ian Goldin
Cathryn Costello
Martin Ruhs
Keywords
migration
immigration
emigration
development
diaspora
Department: Kellogg College
Date Added: 17/12/2013
Duration: 01:01:46

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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
A series of talks, workshops and conference highlights hosted by the OCLW based at Wolfson College. Life-writing encompasses everything from the complete life to the day-in-the-life, from the fictional to the factional. It embraces the lives of objects and institutions as well as the lives of individuals, families and groups. Life-writing includes autobiography, memoirs, letters, diaries, journals (written and documentary), anthropological data, oral testimony, and eye-witness accounts. It is not only a literary or historical specialism, but is relevant across the arts and sciences, and can involve philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, ethnographers and anthropologists. Wolfson College provides a natural home for OCLW. The college prides itself on an interdiscplinary approach to research, whilst drawing on equally strong research traditions in humanities and science.

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A Sociocultural Imagination: Studying the Formative Effects of 'Everydayness'

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Harry Daniels is Professor of Education at the University of Oxford. He previously held Chairs at the Universities of Bath and Birmingham. He is co-convener and Research Director of the Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (OSAT).
It has often been claimed that the notion of mediation lies at the heart of Vygotsky's contribution to social science. However developments of his account of the social formation of mind have tended to have been empirically constrained by limitations in attempts to capture aspects of the 'social' which lie beyond the interactional.

In this session Prof. Daniels draws on a number of studies which provide glimpses of the need to nuance further the notion of mediation as part of the response to these limitations."
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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Harry Daniels
Keywords
education
research
Department: Department of Education
Date Added: 13/12/2013
Duration: 00:54:56

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The Physics of the Violin

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Jesse Liu, winner of the the departmental Speaking Competition for undergraduates, gives a short talk on the physics of a violin.
The violin and elastic band are both string instruments. Yet what is it about the first that allows it to produce sounds many would regard as beautiful? I'll explore the physics behind music and the violin to illuminate this intersection of art and science.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Jesse Liu
Keywords
violin
music
string
tension
instrument
vibrations
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 13/12/2013
Duration: 00:12:11

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The coldest place in the Universe

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Tiffany Harte, Oxford Physics, discusses absolute zero temperatures and how by cooling atoms in a lab we can aim to replicate the coldest place in the Universe.
I will be discussing how we cool atoms to create the coldest place in the Universe in the middle of a lab, and the fascinating states that emerge from these ultracold gases. We will look at cooling using lasers and evaporation, and see how the Highland Fling can explain giant quantum states.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Tiffany Harte
Keywords
cold
gases
chemistry
lab
dancing
highland fling
Scotland
sub zero
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 13/12/2013
Duration: 00:13:11

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Heart of Darkness: The Interplay of Galaxies and Dark Matter

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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A short flash talk from Peter Hatfield, Oxford Physics, who discusses the origins of the galaxies we see in our night sky and the mysterious nature of dark matter.
Galaxies are huge clusters of hundreds of billions of stars - the Milky Way is our galaxy, itself just one of many billions more. But even these are diminutive compared with the sea in which they swim, dark matter, an unknown substance we cannot see with our telescopes. We will look back in time over more than half the age of the Universe to see how galaxies sloshed about in this ocean of dark matter during their creation and development, hopefully helping us learn more about the galaxies we see today and potentially even something about the mysterious nature of dark matter itself.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Peter Hatfield
Keywords
astrophysics
galaxies
stargazing
stars
dark matter
big bang
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 13/12/2013
Duration: 00:09:15

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Superconductivity -- alchemy for the 21st Century?

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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An exciting talk and demonstration about superconductivity and its potential practical applications by Ben Williams, Oxford Physics.
Superconductivity is a weird property of some materials that has exciting applications both in the lab and outside, in new technologies. The only problem is, we don't quite know what makes superconductivity work! In this talk, you'll see superconductivity in action and find out how, just like modern-day alchemists, physicists are looking to turn the mundane into the magical!
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Ben Williams
Keywords
superconductor
trains
rail
japan
alchemy
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 12/12/2013
Duration: 00:13:23

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