Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

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• Dr Greg Lavender - Former CTO of Intel and VMware Trustee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
• Wednesday 29 October 2025, 15:05-15:55
• Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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Western Cultural Evolution of Computational Reasoning from Pythagoras to the Cloud & AI Era.

This talk falls into the category of “Big History” that provides a mostly Western multi-disciplinary perspective of our modern technological world and the gradual evolution over-time of computational reasoning starting roughly 500 BC in Athens and continuing to today and our new world of AI.

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A recording of this talk is available at the following link: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/seminars/wednesday/video/

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