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205 episodes transcribedDatacenters have a hard time keeping their cool. Literally. And with more and more datacenters coming online all over the world, calls for innovative...
The wildly popular video game, Minecraft, might appear to be an unlikely candidate for machine learning research, but to Dr. Katja Hofmann, the resear...
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 beca...
If your idea of a great job includes pursuing untethered research, shepherding brilliant researchers and helping shape the long-term strategy of one o...
Kevin Scott has embraced many roles over the course of his illustrious career in technology: software developer, engineering executive, researcher, an...
Dr. Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam is a researcher by trade, but by nature, he’s an entrepreneur, and a hacker with a heart of gold. It’s this combinat...
First aired on January 17, 2018. If someone mentions quantum computing, and you find yourself outwardly nodding your head, but secretly shaking it, yo...
First aired on December 4th, 2017. When it comes to artificial intelligence, Dr. Eric Horvitz is as passionate as he is accomplished. His contribution...
This episode first aired in January (2018).In an era of AI breakthroughs and other exciting advances in computer science, Dr. Ben Zorn would like to r...
This episode first aired in April (2018). When we think about artificial intelligence and the “world of the future,” our vision is usually more Jetson...
Developing complex artificial intelligence systems in a lab is a challenging task, but what happens when they go into production and interact with rea...
This episode first aired in November (2017). Dr. Jaime Teevan has a lot to say about productivity in a fragmented culture, and some solutions that see...
In technical terms, computer vision researchers “build algorithms and systems to automatically analyze imagery and extract knowledge from the visual w...
When we think of medals, we usually picture them over the pocket of a military hero, not over the pocket protector of a computer scientist. That may b...
In the world of machine learning, there’s been a notable trade-off between accuracy and intelligibility. Either the models are accurate but difficult...
With 7 billion people on the planet, you might be surprised to learn that approximately a billion of those people experience some form of disability....
Humans are wired to communicate, but we don’t always understand each other. Especially when we don’t speak the same language. But Arul Menezes, the Pa...
Some of the world’s leading architects are people that you’ve probably never heard of, and they’ve designed and built some of the world’s most amazing...
Autonomous flying agents – or flying robots – may seem like the stuff of sci-fi to the average person, but to Dr. Ashish Kapoor, Principal Researcher...
Teaching computers to read, think and communicate like humans is a daunting task, but it’s one that Dr. Geoff Gordon embraces with enthusiasm and opti...
