A Guest Lecture on Social Software

Logician: It is such a pity I had to miss Rohit’s lecture. And Rohit himself has dashed off now, to a conference in Paris. On the day before the talk, one of the NIAS fellows asked me with a worried look on his face what the word “algorithm” meant that he had seen in the lecture announcement, and could we please make sure that our guest lecturer knew that part of the audience was unfamiliar—even uncomfortable—with the jargon of computer science and logic? So we forewarned Rohit, of course. Now you all understand why I am curious how it went. Can anyone tell me?