2026-03-02
1 小时 24 分钟Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Welcome everybody to this public lecture organised by the maths department here at LSE.
I'm Chris Andrew Lewis, a member of the maths department here.
Our speaker tonight is Professor Evan Shapiro.
He's a professor emeritus at the Weisman Institute of Science.
He's also a visiting professor in the math department and the data science institute here.
Soon he's made foundational contributions in a wide variety of different fields.
I believe he's part of his motivation for coming to LSE.
A lot of his early work was inspired by Karl Popper,
who of course founded the department of philosophy, logic and scientific method here.
So some of Udi's early work was concerned with developing algorithmic interpretations of populist methodology.
He's also done foundational work in the automation of program debugging.
He developed the programming language concurrent prologue.
Decades ago,
he was well ahead of his time in developing early versions of the metaverse for social networking.
He's also worked extensively in biology on molecular computation and the human cell lineage tree.
So Udi was also an early internet entrepreneur.
For a long time, he's been a proponent of global digital democracy.
And most recently,