AI for Healthcare with Peter Lee - TWiML Talk #231
In this episode, we’re joined by Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Research responsible for the company’s healthcare initiatives. Peter and I met back at Microsoft Ignite, where he gave...
18 Feb 201956min
An Optimized Recurrent Unit for Ultra-Low Power Acoustic Event Detection with Justice Amoh Jr. - TWiML Talk #230
Today, we're joined by Justice Amoh Jr., a Ph.D. student at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering. Justice presented his work on “An Optimized Recurrent Unit for Ultra-Low Power Acoustic Event Det...
11 Feb 201945min
Pathologies of Neural Models and Interpretability with Alvin Grissom II - TWiML Talk #229
Today, we continue our Black in AI series with Alvin Grissom II, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Ursinus College. In our conversation, we dive into the paper he presented at the workshop, “...
11 Feb 201932min
AI for Earth with Lucas Joppa - TWiML Talk #228
Today we’re joined by Lucas Joppa, Chief Environmental Officer at Microsoft and Zach Parisa, Co-founder and president of Silvia Terra, a Microsoft AI for Earth grantee. In our conversation, we explor...
8 Feb 201956min
AI for Accessibility with Wendy Chisholm - TWiML Talk #227
Today we’re joined by Wendy Chisholm, a principal accessibility architect at Microsoft, and one of the chief proponents of the AI for Accessibility program, which extends grants to AI-powered accessib...
6 Feb 201950min
AI for Humanitarian Action with Justin Spelhaug - TWiML Talk #226
Today we're joined by Justin Spelhaug, General Manager of Technology for Social Impact at Microsoft. In our conversation, we discuss the company’s efforts in AI for Humanitarian Action, covering Mic...
4 Feb 201958min
Teaching AI to Preschoolers with Randi Williams - TWiML Talk #225
Today, in the first episode of our Black in AI series, we’re joined by Randi Williams, PhD student at the MIT Media Lab. At the Black in AI workshop Randi presented her research on Popbots: A Early C...
31 Jan 201943min
Holistic Optimization of the LinkedIn News Feed - TWiML Talk #224
Today we’re joined by Tim Jurka, Head of Feed AI at LinkedIn. In our conversation, Tim describes the holistic optimization of the feed and we discuss some of the interesting technical and business cha...
28 Jan 201948min
