NTNU's Onsager Lecture, Compressed Sensing by Terence Tao, part 1 of 7. NTNU's Onsager Lecture, Compressed Sensing by Terence Tao, part 7 of 7. Terence Tao was awarded the Onsager Medal at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in December 2008. An unedited version of Tao's lecture on compressed sensing can be found here: http://multimedie.adm.ntnu.no/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=dffa7