The Strachey Lectures in Computing Science

This is a termly series of Distinguished Lectures named after Christopher Strachey, the first Professor of Computation at Oxford University. 

Christopher Strachey was the first leader of the Programming Research Group (PRG), part of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL), founded in 1965. He was the first Professor of Computation at Oxford, succeeded by Sir Tony Hoare in 1977 after his untimely death. With Dana Scott he founded the field of denotational semantics, providing a firm mathematical foundation for programming languages.

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• 7Nov
  Strachey lecture: How Can Algorithms Help to Protect our Privacy - Professor Monika Henzinger

  15:00 Tuesday 7th November ( week 5, Michaelmas Term 2023 ) in Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW

  Professor Monika Henzinger ( University of Vienna )
• 6Feb
  Strachey lecture

  15:00 Tuesday 6th February 2024 in TBC

  Professor Christel Baier ( TU Dresden )
• 30Apr
  Strachey lecture

  15:00 30th April 2024 in TBC

  Professor Tim Roughgarden ( Columbia University, US )