063 - 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...
13 Feb 20190s
062 - 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, Eng...
6 Feb 20190s
061 - 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 Redmo...
30 Jan 20190s
060 - 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, ...
23 Jan 20190s
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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Des 20180s
