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An ongoing series of conversations bringing you right up to the cutting edge of Microsoft Research.

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123 - Econ3: Understanding the media ecosystem and how it informs public opinion in the internet age featuring Hunt Allcott and David Rothschild

Episode Date: June 10, 2021

In the world of economics, researchers at Microsoft are examining a range of complex systems—from those that impact the technologies we use to those t...

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122 - Econ2: Causal machine learning, data interpretability, and online platform markets featuring Hunt Allcott and Greg Lewis

Episode Date: June 2, 2021

In the world of economics, researchers at Microsoft are examining a range of complex systems—from those that impact the technologies we use to those t...

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121 - Econ1: Using microeconomics to solve mass incarceration featuring Hunt Allcott and Evan Rose

Episode Date: May 19, 2021

In the world of economics, researchers at Microsoft are examining a range of complex systems—from those that impact the technologies we use to those t...

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120 - Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones

Episode Date: May 5, 2021

Today, people around the globe—from teachers to small-business owners to finance executives—use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the information that...

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119 - Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud

Episode Date: July 8, 2020

Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to Rowham...

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118 - Accessible systems for sign language computation with Dr. Danielle Bragg

Episode Date: June 17, 2020

Many computer science researchers set their sights on building general AI technologies that could impact hundreds of millions – or even billions – of...

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117 - Provably efficient reinforcement learning with Dr. Akshay Krishnamurthy

Episode Date: June 3, 2020

MSR’s New York City lab is home to some of the best reinforcement learning research on the planet but if you ask any of the researchers, they’ll tell...

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116 - Harvesting randomness, HAIbrid algorithms and safe AI with Dr. Siddhartha Sen

Episode Date: May 27, 2020

Dr. Siddhartha Sen is a Principal Researcher in MSR’s New York City lab, and his research interests are, if not impossible, at least impossible soundi...

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036r - A conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott

Episode Date: May 20, 2020

This episode originally aired in August, 2018. Kevin Scott has embraced many roles over the course of his illustrious career in technology: software d...

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115 - Diving into Deep InfoMax with Dr. Devon Hjelm

Episode Date: May 13, 2020

Dr. Devon Hjelm is a senior researcher at the Microsoft Research lab in Montreal, and today, he joins me to dive deep into his research on Deep InfoMa...

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080r - All Data AI with Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon

Episode Date: May 6, 2020

This episode originally aired in June, 2019 You may not know who Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon is, but if you’ve watched a TV show or movie in the last two de...

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020r - Getting good VIBEs from your computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski

Episode Date: April 29, 2020

This episode originally aired in April, 2018 Emotions are fundamental to human interaction, but in a world where humans are increasingly interacting w...

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072r - AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa

Episode Date: April 22, 2020

This episode originally aired in April, 2019. We hear a lot these days about “AI for good” and the efforts of many companies to harness the power of a...

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004r - Getting Virtual with Dr. Mar Gonzalez Franco

Episode Date: April 15, 2020

This episode originally aired in December, 2017 On today’s episode, neuroscientist and virtual reality researcher, Dr. Mar Gonzalez Franco, talks abou...

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114 - Project Orleans and the distributed database future with Dr. Philip Bernstein

Episode Date: April 8, 2020

Forty years ago, database research was an “exotic” field and, because of its business data processing reputation, was not considered intellectually in...

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113 - An interview with Microsoft President Brad Smith

Episode Date: April 1, 2020

Brad Smith is the President of Microsoft and leads a team of more than 1400 employees in 56 countries. He plays a key role in spearheading the company...

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112 - Microsoft’s AI Transformation, Project Turing and smarter search with Rangan Majumder

Episode Date: March 25, 2020

Rangan Majumder is the Partner Group Program Manager of Microsoft’s Search and AI, and he has a simple goal: to make the world smarter and more produc...

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111 - Auto ML and the future of self-managing networks with Dr. Behnaz Arzani

Episode Date: March 18, 2020

Dr. Behnaz Arzani is a senior researcher in the Mobility and Networking group at MSR, and she feels your pain. At least, that is, if you’re a network...

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110 - Engineering research to life with Gavin Jancke

Episode Date: March 11, 2020

If you want an inside look at how a research idea goes from project to prototype to product, you should hang out with Gavin Jancke for a while. He’s t...

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109 - AI, Azure and the future of healthcare with Dr. Peter Lee

Episode Date: March 4, 2020

Over the past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone a series of technological changes in an effort to modernize it and bring it into the digi...

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