Distributed Systems
Martin Kleppmann's concise Cambridge lecture sequence on physical and logical clocks, causality, broadcast protocols, Raft consensus, replication, CRDTs, and distributed transactions.
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Introduction to Information Theory (University of Cambridge, Lecture 1)
This inaugural lecture introduces the foundational concepts of information theory, including Shannon entropy, and establishes the mathematical framework for understanding data compression and communication limits. The content directly references MacKay's authoritative textbook.
Distributed Systems: Google's Spanner
An undergraduate lecture from the University of Cambridge series on Distributed Systems, providing a detailed technical overview of Google's Spanner database architecture.
Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Artificial Intelligence
Traces the path from self-play search in AlphaGo to geometric equivariance in AlphaFold—mapping protein structure space across biology.
SPQR: Confronting the Myths of Ancient Rome
Examines how a small Iron Age village on the Tiber grew into a Mediterranean superpower—and how Roman citizenship, Senate politics, and everyday urban life actually functioned.
Automerge: A Foundation for Local-First Collaboration Software
Martin Kleppmann presents the motivations and underlying research for Automerge, an open-source library pioneering local-first software development for collaborative applications.
Thinking in Events: From Databases to Distributed Collaboration Software
A keynote address from ACM DEBS 2021 by Martin Kleppmann, exploring the evolution of event-driven paradigms from traditional databases to modern distributed collaboration systems.
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