099 - Program synthesis and the art of programming by intent with Dr. Sumit Gulwani
Dr. Sumit Gulwani is a programmer’s programmer. Literally. A Partner Research Manager in the Program Synthesis, or PROSE, group at Microsoft Research, Dr. Gulwani is a leading researcher in program sy...
20 Nov 20190s
098 - Hacking the runway with MakeCode with Dr. Thomas Ball and Dr. Teddy Seyed
Computer programming has often been perceived as the exclusive domain of computer scientists and software engineers. But that’s changing, thanks to the work of people like Dr. Thomas Ball, a Partner R...
13 Nov 20190s
097- Optics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich
Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, we’re now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the bytes of the day, and it turns out it’s hard to f...
6 Nov 20190s
096 - Art + Architecture + AI = Ada with Jenny Sabin and Asta Roseway
Jenny Sabin is an architectural designer, a professor, a studio principal and MSR’s current Artist in Residence. Asta Roseway is a principal research designer, a “fusionist” and the co-founder of the ...
30 Okt 20190s
095 - Machine teaching, LUIS and the democratization of custom AI with Dr. Riham Mansour
Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables conversational agents to provide general question-answer services. But in domains with more specific taxonomies – or simply for requests that are longe...
23 Okt 20190s
094 - News from the front in the post-quantum crypto wars with Dr. Craig Costello
Dr. Craig Costello is in the business of safeguarding your secrets. And he uses math to do it. A researcher in the Security and Cryptography group at Microsoft Research, Dr. Costello is among a formid...
16 Okt 20190s
093 - Data science and ML for human well-being with Jina Suh
Using technology to help us improve our health is nothing new: a quick web search returns hundreds of apps and devices claiming to help us get fit, quit smoking, master anxiety or just “find our cente...
9 Okt 20190s
092 - MMLSpark: empowering AI for Good with Mark Hamilton
If someone asked you what snow leopards and Vincent Van Gogh have in common, you might think it was the beginning of a joke. It’s not, but if it were, Mark Hamilton, a software engineer in Microsoft’s...
2 Okt 20190s
