
114 - Project Orleans and the distributed database future with Dr. Philip Bernstein
Forty years ago, database research was an “exotic” field and, because of its business data processing reputation, was not considered intellectually interesting in academic circles. But that didn’t det...
8 Apr 20200s

113 - An interview with Microsoft President Brad Smith
Brad Smith is the President of Microsoft and leads a team of more than 1400 employees in 56 countries. He plays a key role in spearheading the company’s work on critical issues involving the intersect...
1 Apr 20200s

112 - Microsoft’s AI Transformation, Project Turing and smarter search with Rangan Majumder
Rangan Majumder is the Partner Group Program Manager of Microsoft’s Search and AI, and he has a simple goal: to make the world smarter and more productive. But nobody said simple was easy, so he and h...
25 Mar 20200s

111 - Auto ML and the future of self-managing networks with Dr. Behnaz Arzani
Dr. Behnaz Arzani is a senior researcher in the Mobility and Networking group at MSR, and she feels your pain. At least, that is, if you’re a network operator trying to troubleshoot an incident in a d...
18 Mar 20200s

110 - Engineering research to life with Gavin Jancke
If you want an inside look at how a research idea goes from project to prototype to product, you should hang out with Gavin Jancke for a while. He’s the General Manager of Engineering for MSR Redmond ...
11 Mar 20200s

109 - AI, Azure and the future of healthcare with Dr. Peter Lee
Over the past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone a series of technological changes in an effort to modernize it and bring it into the digital world, but the call for innovation persists. On...
4 Mar 20200s

108 - Neural architecture search, imitation learning and other ML “defense against the dark arts” techniques with Dr. Debadeepta Dey
Dr. Debadeepta Dey is a Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at MSR and he’s currently exploring several lines of research that may help bridge the gap between perception...
26 Feb 20200s

107 - Democratizing data, thinking backwards and setting North Star goals with Dr. Donald Kossmann
Dr. Donald Kossmann is a Distinguished Scientist who thinks big, and as the Director of Microsoft Research’s flagship lab in Redmond, it’s his job to inspire others to think big, too. But don’t be foo...
19 Feb 20200s




















