067 - Programming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips
When we think of information processing systems, we often think of computers, but we ourselves are made up of information processing systems – trillions of them – also known as the cells in our bodies...
13 Mars 20190s
066 (rerun) - Cryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia
This episode first aired in August of 2018. You know those people who work behind the scenes to make sure nothing bad happens to you, and if they’re really good, you never know who they are because no...
6 Mars 20190s
065 - Securing the vote with Dr. Josh Benaloh
If you’ve ever wondered why, in the age of the internet, we still don’t hold our elections online, you need to spend more time with Dr. Josh Benaloh, Senior Cryptographer at Microsoft Research in Redm...
27 Feb 20190s
064 - Talking with machines with Dr. Layla El Asri
Humans are unique in their ability to learn from, understand the world through and communicate with language… Or are they? Perhaps not for long, if Dr. Layla El Asri, a Research Manager at Microsoft R...
20 Feb 20190s
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
