Microsoft Research Podcast
By Gretchen Huizinga, host
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Description
An ongoing series of conversations bringing you right up to the cutting edge of Microsoft Research.
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Clean063 - Competing in the X Games of machine learning with Dr. Manik Varma | If every question in life could be answered by choosing from just a few options, machine learning would be pretty simple, and life for machine learning researchers would be pretty sweet. Unfortunately, in both life and machine learning, | 2/13/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean062 - Putting the “human” in human computer interaction with Haiyan Zhang | Haiyan Zhang is a designer, technologist and maker of things (really cool technical things) who currently holds the unusual title of Innovation Director at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge, England. There, | 2/6/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean061 - Enable(ing) people to do more with Dr. Rico Malvar | From his deep technical roots as a principal researcher and founder of the Communications, Collaboration and Signal Processing group at MSR, through his tenure as Managing Director of the lab in Redmond, to his current role as Distinguished Engineer, | 1/30/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean060 - Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison | You never know how an incident in your own life might inspire a breakthrough in science, but Dr. Cecily Morrison, a researcher in the Human Computer Interaction group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, can attest to how even unexpected events can cause u. | 1/23/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean059 - Building contextually intelligent assistants with Dr. Paul Bennett | The entertainment industry has long offered us a vision of the perfect personal assistant: one that not only meets our stated needs but anticipates needs we didn’t even know we had. But these uber-assistants, from the preternaturally prescient Radar . | 1/16/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean058 - Scaling the Everest of software security with Dr. Jonathan Protzenko | When people first started making software, computers were relatively rare and there was no internet, so programming languages were designed to get the job done quickly and run efficiently, with little thought for security. But software is everywhere now | 1/9/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean057 (rerun) - Making intelligence intelligible with Dr. Rich Caruana | The episode first aired in May, 2018.In the world of machine learning, there’s been a notable trade-off between accuracy and intelligibility. Either the models are accurate but difficult to make sense of, or easy to understand but prone to error. Tha. | 1/2/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean056 (rerun) - Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones | This episode first aired in January, 2018.When we look at a skyscraper or a suspension bridge, a simple search engine box on a screen looks tiny by comparison. But Dr. Simon Peyton Jones would like to remind us that computer programs, | 12/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean055 (rerun) - Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler | This episode first aired in March, 2018.Learning to read, think and communicate effectively is part of the curriculum for every young student. But Dr. Adam Trischler, Research Manager and leader of the Machine Comprehension team at Microsoft Research M. | 12/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean054 - Soundscaping the world with Amos Miller | Amos Miller is a product strategist on the Microsoft Research NeXT Enable team, and he’s played a pivotal role in bringing some of MSR’s most innovative research to users with disabilities. He also happens to be blind, so he can appreciate, | 12/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean053 - Chasing convex bodies and other random topics with Dr. Sebastien Bubeck | Dr. Sebastien Bubeck is a mathematician and a senior researcher in the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Microsoft Research. He’s also a self-proclaimed “bandit” who claims that, despite all the buzz around AI, | 12/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean052 - Machine learning and the learning machine with Dr. Christopher Bishop | Dr. Christopher Bishop is quite a fellow. Literally. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Fellow of Darwin College in Cambridge, England. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Fellow of The Royal Society. Microsoft Technical Fellow. | 11/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean051 (rerun) - When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff | This episode first aired in March (2018)One of the most intriguing areas of machine learning research is affective computing, where scientists are working to bridge the gap between human emotions and computers. It is here, | 11/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean050 - Hearing in 3D with Dr. Ivan Tashev | After decades of research in processing audio signals, we’ve reached the point of so-called performance saturation. But recent advances in machine learning and signal processing algorithms have paved the way for a revolution in speech recognition tec. | 11/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean049 - Celebrating 20 Years of MSR in Asia with Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon | In 1998, Microsoft Research opened a small lab in Beijing to expand its research efforts and draw on the immense high-tech talent pool in China. No one expected that only twenty years later, MSR Asia would become the dynamic organization it is today, | 11/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean048 - Storing Digital Data in Synthetic DNA with Dr. Karin Strauss | As traditional semiconductor technologies for computer storage scale down, everyone is looking for alternative solutions to the growing gap between the amount of data we’re capable of producing and the amount of data we’re capable of storing. | 10/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean046 - Designing the Future With the Help of the Past with Bill Buxton | The ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius famously exhorted his pupils to study the past if they would divine the future. In 2018, we get the same advice from a decidedly more modern, but equally philosophical Bill Buxton, | 10/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean045 - Leading Labs with Dr. Jennifer Chayes | 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, so it’s the perfect time to talk with someone who was there from the lab’s beginning: Technical Fellow, Managing Director and Co-founder, Dr. | 10/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean044 - The Future is Fusion with Asta Roseway | Asta Roseway has a formal title. It’s Principal Research Designer in the HCI group at Microsoft Research. But she’s also been described as a conductor, an alchemist, a millennial in a Gen-Xer’s body and, in her own words, a fusionist. | 10/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean043 - All About Automated Machine Learning with Dr. Nicolo Fusi | You may have heard the phrase, necessity is the mother of invention, but for Dr. Nicolo Fusi, a researcher at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge, MA, the mother of his invention wasn’t so much necessity as it was boredom: the special machine lea. | 9/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean042 - Internships Ahoy! with Kirsten Bray, Wei Dai and Sara Beery | At the heart of any vibrant research community, you’ll find a diverse range of scientists. You’re also likely to find a robust internship program, like the one at Microsoft Research. This summer, MSR welcomed another stellar group of interns who ha. | 9/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean041 - Playing to the Crowd and Other Social Media Mandates with Dr. Nancy Baym | Dr. Nancy Baym is a communication scholar, a Principal Researcher in MSR’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, lab, and something of a cyberculture maven. She’s spent nearly three decades studying how people use communication technologies in their everyday r. | 9/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean040 - Putting the Cloud Under the Sea with Ben Cutler | Datacenters have a hard time keeping their cool. Literally. And with more and more datacenters coming online all over the world, calls for innovative solutions to “cool the cloud” are getting loud. So, Ben Cutler and the Special Projects team at Mi. | 9/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean039 - Malmo, Minecraft and Machine Learning with Dr. Katja Hofmann | The wildly popular video game, Minecraft, might appear to be an unlikely candidate for machine learning research, but to Dr. Katja Hofmann, the research lead of Project Malmo in the Machine Intelligence and Perception Group at Microsoft Research in Cam. | 8/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean038 - Cryptography for the Post-Quantum World with Dr. Brian LaMacchia | You know those people who work behind the scenes to make sure nothing bad happens to you, and if they’re really good, you never know who they are because nothing bad happens to you? Well, meet one of those people. Dr. | 8/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean037 - A Brief History of Networking (and a Bit About the Future Too) with Dr. Victor Bahl | If your idea of a great job includes pursuing untethered research, shepherding brilliant researchers and helping shape the long-term strategy of one of the largest tech companies in the world… oh, and also publishing prolifically, authoring patents, | 8/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean036 - A Conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott | Kevin Scott has embraced many roles over the course of his illustrious career in technology: software developer, engineering executive, researcher, angel investor, philanthropist, and now, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. | 8/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean035 - Research You Can (Really) Use with Dr. Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam | Dr. Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam is a researcher by trade, but by nature, he’s an entrepreneur, and a hacker with a heart of gold. It’s this combination of skill and passion that informs his work at Microsoft Research, | 8/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean034 (rerun) - The future is quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore | First aired on January 17, 2018. If someone mentions quantum computing, and you find yourself outwardly nodding your head, but secretly shaking it, you’re in good company: some of the world’s smartest people admit they don’t really understand it . | 7/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean033 (rerun) - AI and Our Future With Machines with Dr. Eric Horvitz | First aired on December 4th, 2017. When it comes to artificial intelligence, Dr. Eric Horvitz is as passionate as he is accomplished. His contributions to the field, and service on the boards of nearly every technical academy and association in the cou. | 7/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean032 (rerun) - How Programming Languages Quietly Run the World with Dr. Ben Zorn | This episode first aired in January (2018).In an era of AI breakthroughs and other exciting advances in computer science, Dr. Ben Zorn would like to remind us that behind every great technical revolution is… a programming language. | 7/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean031 (rerun) - AI for the Developing World with Dr. Ranveer Chandra | This episode first aired in April (2018). When we think about artificial intelligence and the “world of the future,” our vision is usually more Jetsons than Green Acres. But for Dr. Ranveer Chandra, a Principal Researcher in the Systems and Network. | 7/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean030 - Examining the Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Fernando Diaz | Developing complex artificial intelligence systems in a lab is a challenging task, but what happens when they go into production and interact with real humans? That’s what researchers like Dr. Fernando Diaz, | 6/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean029 (rerun) - Notes from the Productivity Revolution with Dr. Jaime Teevan | This episode first aired in November (2017). Dr. Jaime Teevan has a lot to say about productivity in a fragmented culture, and some solutions that seem promising, if somewhat counter-intuitive. Dr. Teevan is a Microsoft researcher, | 6/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean028 - Teaching Computers to See with Dr. Gang Hua | In technical terms, computer vision researchers “build algorithms and systems to automatically analyze imagery and extract knowledge from the visual world.” In layman’s terms, they build machines that can see. | 6/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean027 - The Democratization of Data Science with Dr. Chris White | When we think of medals, we usually picture them over the pocket of a military hero, not over the pocket protector of a computer scientist. That may be because not many academics end up working with the Department of Defense. But Dr. Chris White, | 6/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean026 - Making Intelligence Intelligible with Dr. Rich Caruana | In the world of machine learning, there’s been a notable trade-off between accuracy and intelligibility. Either the models are accurate but difficult to make sense of, or easy to understand but prone to error. That’s why Dr. Rich Caruana, | 5/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean025 - Advancing Accessibility with Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris | With 7 billion people on the planet, you might be surprised to learn that approximately a billion of those people experience some form of disability. Enter Principal Researcher and Research Manager, Dr. Merrie Ringel Morris, | 5/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean024 - Not Lost in Translation with Arul Menezes | Humans are wired to communicate, but we don’t always understand each other. Especially when we don’t speak the same language. But Arul Menezes, the Partner Research Manager who heads MSR’s Machine Translation team, | 5/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean023 - Clouds, Catapults and Life After the End of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger | Some of the world’s leading architects are people that you’ve probably never heard of, and they’ve designed and built some of the world’s most amazing structures that you’ve probably never seen. Or at least you don’t think you have. | 5/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean022 - Machine Learning and the Incredible Flying Robot with Dr. Ashish Kapoor | Autonomous flying agents – or flying robots – may seem like the stuff of sci-fi to the average person, but to Dr. Ashish Kapoor, Principal Researcher and Research Manager of the Aerial Informatics and Robotics Group at Microsoft Research, | 5/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean021 - AI, ML and the Reasoning Machine with Dr. Geoff Gordon | Teaching computers to read, think and communicate like humans is a daunting task, but it’s one that Dr. Geoff Gordon embraces with enthusiasm and optimism. Moving from an academic role at Carnegie Mellon University, | 4/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean020 - Getting Good VIBEs from Your Computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski | Emotions are fundamental to human interaction, but in a world where humans are increasingly interacting with AI systems, Dr. Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager of the Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment . | 4/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean019 - Tales from the Crypt(ography) Lab with Dr. Kristin Lauter | From ancient hieroglyphics to secret decoder rings to World War II Enigma code-makers and code-breakers, cryptography has always held a particular fascination for us. But few of us have the skills – or can actually do the math – to unlock the myste. | 4/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean018 - AI for the Developing World with Dr. Ranveer Chandra | When we think about artificial intelligence and the “world of the future,” our vision is usually more Jetsons than Green Acres. But for Dr. Ranveer Chandra, a Principal Researcher in the Systems and Networking group at Microsoft Research, | 4/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean017 - When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff | One of the most intriguing areas of machine learning research is affective computing, where scientists are working to bridge the gap between human emotions and computers. It is here, at the intersection of psychology and computer science, | 3/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean016 - Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler | Learning to read, think and communicate effectively is part of the curriculum for every young student. But Dr. Adam Trischler, Research Manager and leader of the Machine Comprehension team at Microsoft Research Montreal, | 3/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean015 - Brokering Peace Talks in the Networking and Storage Arms Race with Dr. Anirudh Badam | There’s a big gap between memory and storage, and Dr. Anirudh Badam, of the Systems Research Group at Microsoft Research, wants to close it. With projects like Navamem, which explores how systems can get faster and better by adopting new memory t.. | 3/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean014 - Keeping an Eye on AI with Dr. Kate Crawford | Artificial intelligence has captured our imagination and made many things we would have thought impossible only a few years ago seem commonplace today. But AI has also raised some challenging issues for society writ large. Enter Dr. Kate Crawford, | 2/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean013 - Machine Learning and the InnerEye for Cancer Treatment with Dr. Antonio Criminisi | With all the sensational headlines about artificial intelligence, it’s reassuring to know that some of the world’s most brilliant minds are developing AI systems for entirely practical reasons. One of those minds belongs to Dr. Antonio Criminisi, | 2/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean012 - Code in the Classroom with Dr. Peli de Halleux | If you’ve ever wondered if you could find the perfect combination of computer scientist… and Macgyver, look no further than Dr. Peli de Halleux, principal Research Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Research. A key member of the MSR RiSE team, | 2/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean011 - Getting LinkedIn to Data Science with Dr. Igor Perisic | Big data is a big deal, and if you follow the popular technical press, you’ll have heard all the metaphors: data is the new oil, the new bacon, the new currency, the new electricity. It’s even been called the new black. | 2/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean010 - Neural Program Synthesis and the Quest to Democratize Programming with Dr. Rishabh Singh | Every day, computers take on more and more of our daily tasks. Fill in a few cells on your spreadsheet? It’ll fill in the rest. Ask your car for directions? It’ll get you there. Anymore, we can program computers to do almost anything. | 1/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean009 - Life at the Intersection of AI and Society with Dr. Ece Kamar | As the reality of artificial intelligence continues to capture our imagination, and critical AI systems enter our world at a rapid pace, Dr. Ece Kamar, a senior researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research, | 1/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean008 - The Future is Quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore | If someone mentions quantum computing, and you find yourself outwardly nodding your head, but secretly shaking it, you’re in good company: some of the world’s smartest people admit they don’t really understand it either. Fortunately, | 1/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean007 - Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones | When we look at a skyscraper or a suspension bridge, a simple search engine box on a screen looks tiny by comparison. But Dr. Simon Peyton Jones would like to remind us that computer programs, with hundreds of millions of lines of code, | 1/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean006 - How Programming Languages Quietly Run the World with Dr. Ben Zorn | In an era of AI breakthroughs and other exciting advances in computer science, Dr. Ben Zorn would like to remind us that behind every great technical revolution is a… programming language. As a Principal Researcher and the Co-director of RiSE – or . | 1/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean005 - Visualizing Data and Other Big Ideas with Dr. Steven Drucker | In a wide-ranging interview, veteran Microsoft Researcher, Dr. Steven Drucker talks about his work in data visualization, the importance of clear communication in a world of complex algorithms and big data, and the long, slow work of big breakthroughs. | 12/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean004 - Getting Virtual with Dr. Mar Gonzalez Franco | On today’s episode, neuroscientist and virtual reality researcher, Dr. Mar Gonzalez Franco, talks about her work in VR, explains how avatars can help increase our empathy and reduce our biases via role play, | 12/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean003 - Hybrid Reward Architecture and the Fall of Ms. Pac-Man with Dr. Harm van Seijen | If you’ve ever watched King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters, you know what a big deal it is to beat a video arcade game that was designed not to lose. Most humans can’t even come close. Enter Harm van Seijen, | 12/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean002 - AI and Our Future with Machines with Dr. Eric Horvitz | When it comes to artificial intelligence, Dr. Eric Horvitz is as passionate as he is accomplished. His contributions to the field, and service on the boards of nearly every technical academy and association in the country, | 12/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean001 - Notes from the Productivity Revolution with Dr. Jaime Teevan | Dr. Jaime Teevan has a lot to say about productivity in a fragmented culture, and some solutions that seem promising, if somewhat counter-intuitive. Dr. Teevan is a Microsoft researcher, University of Washington Affiliate Professor, | 11/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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