121 - Econ1: Using microeconomics to solve mass incarceration featuring Hunt Allcott and Evan Rose
In the world of economics, researchers at Microsoft are examining a range of complex systems—from those that impact the technologies we use to those that inform the laws and policies we create—through...
19 Touko 202143min
120 - Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Today, people around the globe—from teachers to small-business owners to finance executives—use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the information that occupies their respective worlds, and whether they...
5 Touko 202140min
119 - Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud
Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to Rowhammer, an adversarial attack that can cause data los...
8 Heinä 202038min
118 - Accessible systems for sign language computation with Dr. Danielle Bragg
Many computer science researchers set their sights on building general AI technologies that could impact hundreds of millions – or even billions – of people. But Dr. Danielle Bragg, a senior researche...
17 Kesä 202043min
117 - Provably efficient reinforcement learning with Dr. Akshay Krishnamurthy
MSR’s New York City lab is home to some of the best reinforcement learning research on the planet but if you ask any of the researchers, they’ll tell you they’re very interested in getting it out of t...
3 Kesä 202038min
116 - Harvesting randomness, HAIbrid algorithms and safe AI with Dr. Siddhartha Sen
Dr. Siddhartha Sen is a Principal Researcher in MSR’s New York City lab, and his research interests are, if not impossible, at least impossible sounding: optimal decision making, universal data struct...
27 Touko 20200s
036r - A conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
This episode originally aired in August, 2018. Kevin Scott has embraced many roles over the course of his illustrious career in technology: software developer, engineering executive, researcher, angel...
20 Touko 20200s
115 - Diving into Deep InfoMax with Dr. Devon Hjelm
Dr. Devon Hjelm is a senior researcher at the Microsoft Research lab in Montreal, and today, he joins me to dive deep into his research on Deep InfoMax, a novel self-supervised learning approach to tr...
13 Touko 20200s
