David Evans' Talks
(Mostly) Non-Technical Talks for General Audiences

See also: Talks by Date

On Giving Talks

Meta Talk: How to Give a Talk So Good There Will Be Pizza Left for You [PPT] [PDF] [Notes]
Talk to University of Virginia Theory Lunch, 25 January 2007.

On Electronic Voting

Hard Facts about Soft Voting [PPT] [PDF]
Talk to League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, Virginia, Blacksburg Town Hall (also broadcast on local television), 15 November 2006. [Roanoke Times story]

On Computer Science

Big Words, Busy Beavers, and the Cake of Computing
Tapestry 2009 Workshop (for high school computing teachers), University of Virginia, 15 July 2009 [PDF] [PPTX]
Turing Machines, Busy Beavers, and Big Questions about Computing [PPT] [PDF]
Talk to College Science Scholars, 12 September 2007. (Partly inspired by Scott Aaronson's essay Who Can Name the Bigger Number?.)

Curing Cancer with your Cell Phone: Why All Sciences Are Becoming Computing Sciences [PPT] [PDF]

Talk to College Science Scholars, 6 September 2006.
1001 Things Every Self-Respecting Computer Scientist Should Know [PPT] [Notes]
Senior Seminar (CS 390) talk, 14 April 2004.

On Cryptography

Cryptography in World War II
Four general-audience talks on cryptography, centered around code-breaking efforts during World War II. Taught as a course for the Jefferson Institute for Lifelong Learning, February-March 2006.
Encryption: How it works, why it (sometimes) doesn't, and what it can do [PPT] [PDF]
Guest lecture in UVa Law School Cyberlaw course on encryption, 19 September 2001.

On Security

What Every Librarian Should Know about Computer Security
In-Service Day talk to Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, Charlottesville Doubletree, 11 November 2009. [PDF] [PPTX]
What Every Human Should Know about Security [PDF] [PPT, 18MB]
UVa cs290 Seminar Talk, 21 February 2008.
What Biology Can (and Can't) Teach Us About Security [PPT] [PDF]
Invited talk at USENIX Security Symposium, San Diego, August 12, 2004.
Robin Hood and the 40 Million Thieves [PPT]
Talk on File Sharing for UVa Pugwash Meeting, 6 October 2003.
Why You Should Be Paranoid About What Comes Into and Out Of Your Computer
Engineering Week talk, 21 February 2001.