Thore Husfeldt

I am happy to give general audience talks about subjects ranging from softer aspects of information technology such as social networks and internet search engines, to hard computer science topics such as algorithms and complexity. I have tagged brief descriptions of earlier talks with

• Popular Science Talks

My languages are English, Danish, Swedish, or German. Contact me if you are interested.

Below is an incomplete list of past and upcoming general audience talks and contributions to media:

Video

• 12 Mar 2012, Utopier i science fiction och datavetenskap (lecture, 26 minutes). About basic computational complexity. Archived at Utbildningsradion. Related blog entries: Impagliazzo’s five worlds on Swedish TV, Views of Impagliazzo’s five worlds, Datalogi för nybörjare.
• 24 Apr 2012, Caught in the Web? Or armed for revolution?, panel debate at Debatt i Lund (streamed lived at newsmill.se). Full webcast archive (1 hour). Summary on YouTube(6 minutes)
• 8 Sep 2011, Hvordan fungerer Google?, TV programme (22 minutes) about Google’s Pagerank algorithm, aired at 15:20 on Danish public television channel DR2. Several reruns, available online. Written and directed (and partially narrated) by me, produced by ITU with (I think) amazing production values.
• 31 Mar 2011, on national Danish TV news,TV-Avisen (starts around 24m30s), explaining HTTP Cookies.

Audio

• 4 Aug 2011, Konservative Wikipedia går sin sejrsgang over hele verden, (Danish public radio) P1 Morgen. About Wikipedia.
• 4 Jun 2011, Internettet smadrer demokratiet, (Danish public radio) P1 Morgen, 7m45s, around 9:30. About the Filter Bubble.
• 14 August 2010. Matematiske problemer bliver løst i fællesskab på nettet. Interview in Danish radio programme DR P1 Morgen, about Vinay Deolalikar’s attempt at separating P from NP. [DR archive (includes audio)]

Print

• 2 Jan 2012, Algoritmerna väljer din musiksmak, Svenska Dagbladet, Kultur. About recommendation systems.
• 15 Aug 2011, Isolarde i nätbubblan, Svenska Dagbladet, Kultur. About the filter bubble.
• 1 Jun 2011, Det hele handler om dig, (Danish weekly) Weekendavisen 20, p. I1, I4. About the Filter Bubble.
• 17 December 2010. Kan de lade sig gøre at stoppe Wikileaks?. Article about Wikileaks in Danish Science news site videnskab.dk.
• 16 November 2010. ‘Troldmanden fra Oz’ er verdens vigtigste film. Article about Filmrank in Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.
• 15 November 2010. Google-algoritme kårer verdens vigtigste film. Article about Filmrank in Ingeniøren.
• 12 November 2010. Verdens viktigste filmer. Article about Filmrank in Norwegian science newsletter forskning.no. Verdas viktigaste filmar in Norwegian internet paper framtida.no.
• 20 October 2010. Verdens vigtigste film er fundet. Article about Filmrank in Filmmagasinet Ekko (In Danish).
• 25 September 2009. En grøn computer er god til at regne den ud. Interview in Danish magazine Samvirke. About algorithms as “Green IT”. [Samvirke archive]
• 2 October 2009. Lysindfald ganget med vand. Interview in Danish paper Weekendavisen, Ideer, p. 1–2. About algorithmic and scientific challenges posed by massive data.

General audience talks

• 19 January 2011, 19.00 Alan Turing lecture at Malmö Konsthall in connection with an exhibition of Danish artist Henrik Olesen.
• 19 Apr 2012, Hvordan Google virker, general audience lecture for Forskningens døgn 2012.
• 18 Apr 2012, Alan Turing i samtidskunst, general audience lecture at art school ignatius.dk.
• 5–7 October 2010. Alan Turing: människan som maskin. General audience talk in Folkuniversitetets Teknik- och Naturvetarcirkel. About Alan Turing and his work. Halmstad, Lund, Växjö.
• 22–24 April 2010. Hvordan Google virker. Forskningens døgn 2010 , various lectures in Greater Copenhagen.
• 3-5 November 2009. Livets träd och sociala nät – grafer, algoritmer och evolution från biologi till Google. Folkuniversitetets Teknik- och naturvetarcirkeln. Lectures about the algorithmic lens on biology in Halmstad, Lund, and Växjö in the series Darwin – inte bara evolution.
• 10 December 2008. Regel 30 – om cellulära automater i naturen och vetenskapen. “Electrohype 2008” Fifth Biennial for Computer Based Art, Malmö Konsthall. Del av föreläsningsserien “Summen är större än helheten.”
• 10 October 2008. Origami, gaveindpakning og hvordan man folder et vejkort. Københavns kulturnat, ITU.
• 6 juni 2007. En linneansk resa från taxonomiberäkning till beräkningstaxonomi. Botaniska trädgården, Lund; del av en serie sk “linnéföredrag” i samband med linnéfirandet på nationaldagen.
• 3 March 2005. Origami, presentinslagning och hur man viker en bilkarta. Arbetslag Bästa formen, SVT Malmö.
• 9–11 March 2004. Origami, presentinslagning och hur man viker en bilkarta. Lunds universitet, Naturvetenskap och teknikdagar för gymnasieelever.