| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What Will A Companionable Computational Agent Be Like? (Lovelace Lecture 2010) | Yorick Wilks explores the state of the art in modelling realistic conversation with computers over the last 40 years, and asks what we would want in a conversational agent (or 'Companion') designed for a long-term relationship with a user. | Yorick Wilks | 20 Jul 2010 | |
| 2 | When the Audience Clicks: Buying Attention in the Digital Age | Discussion of media buying and the attention-creation industry - showing how the fixation on audiences' click-like behaviour is a disruptive institutional force, and how buyers' new approaches to attention are creating new forms of social discrimination. | Joseph Turow | 08 Mar 2010 |