059 - 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-ass...
16 Tammi 20190s
058 - 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...
9 Tammi 20190s
057 (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...
2 Tammi 20190s
056 (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...
26 Joulu 20180s
055 (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 th...
19 Joulu 20180s
054 - 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 ha...
12 Joulu 20180s
053 - 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 ...
5 Joulu 20180s
052 - 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...
28 Marras 20180s
