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

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108 - Neural architecture search, imitation learning and other ML “defense against the dark arts” techniques with Dr. Debadeepta Dey

Episode Date: February 26, 2020

Dr. Debadeepta Dey is a Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at MSR and he’s currently exploring several lines of resear...

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107 - Democratizing data, thinking backwards and setting North Star goals with Dr. Donald Kossmann

Episode Date: February 19, 2020

Dr. Donald Kossmann is a Distinguished Scientist who thinks big, and as the Director of Microsoft Research’s flagship lab in Redmond, it’s his job to...

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106 - Microsoft Scheduler and dawn of Intelligent PDAs with Dr. Pamela Bhattacharya

Episode Date: February 12, 2020

In a world where productivity is paramount and only a handful of people have personal assistants, many of us are frustrated by the amount of time we s...

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105 - Responsible AI with Dr. Saleema Amershi

Episode Date: February 5, 2020

There’s an old adage that says if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. But when it comes to AI, Dr. Saleema Amershi, a principal researcher in the Adap...

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104 - Going deep on deep learning with Dr. Jianfeng Gao

Episode Date: January 29, 2020

Dr. Jianfeng Gao is a veteran computer scientist, an IEEE Fellow and the current head of the Deep Learning Group at Microsoft Research. He and his tea...

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103 - Innovating in India with Dr. Sriram Rajamani

Episode Date: January 22, 2020

Dr. Sriram Rajamani is a Distinguished Scientist and the Managing Director of the Microsoft Research lab in Bangalore. He’s dedicated his career to ad...

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078r - Machine teaching with Dr. Patrice Simard

Episode Date: January 15, 2020

This episode originally aired in May, 2019. Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables computers to learn by observing the world, recognizing pa...

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077r - The productive software engineer with Dr. Tom Zimmermann

Episode Date: January 8, 2020

This episode originally aired in May, 2019. If you’re in software development, Dr. Tom Zimmermann, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmon...

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075r - Reinforcement learning for the real world with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn

Episode Date: January 1, 2020

This episode originally aired in May, 2019.Dr. John Langford, a partner researcher in the Machine Learning group at Microsoft Research New York City,...

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053r - Chasing convex bodies and other random topics with Dr. Sébastien Bubeck

Episode Date: December 25, 2019

Dr. Sébastien Bubeck is a mathematician and a senior researcher in the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Microsoft Research. He’s also a self...

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052r - Chris Bishop

Episode Date: December 18, 2019

This episode first aired in November, 2018. Dr. Christopher Bishop is quite a fellow. Literally. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Fellow of...

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102 - Adaptive systems, machine learning and collaborative AI with Dr. Besmira Nushi

Episode Date: December 11, 2019

With all the buzz surrounding AI, it can be tempting to envision it as a stand-alone entity that optimizes for accuracy and displaces human capabiliti...

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101 - Going meta: learning algorithms and the self-supervised machine with Dr. Philip Bachman

Episode Date: December 4, 2019

Deep learning methodologies like supervised learning have been very successful in training machines to make predictions about the world. But because t...

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100 - Autonomous systems, aerial robotics and Game of Drones with Gurdeep Pall and Dr. Ashish Kapoor

Episode Date: November 27, 2019

There’s a lot of excitement around self-driving cars, delivery drones, and other intelligent, autonomous systems, but before they can be deployed at s...

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099 - Program synthesis and the art of programming by intent with Dr. Sumit Gulwani

Episode Date: November 20, 2019

Dr. Sumit Gulwani is a programmer’s programmer. Literally. A Partner Research Manager in the Program Synthesis, or PROSE, group at Microsoft Research,...

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098 - Hacking the runway with MakeCode with Dr. Thomas Ball and Dr. Teddy Seyed

Episode Date: November 13, 2019

Computer programming has often been perceived as the exclusive domain of computer scientists and software engineers. But that’s changing, thanks to th...

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097- Optics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich

Episode Date: November 6, 2019

Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, we’re now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the...

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096 - Art + Architecture + AI = Ada with Jenny Sabin and Asta Roseway

Episode Date: October 30, 2019

Jenny Sabin is an architectural designer, a professor, a studio principal and MSR’s current Artist in Residence. Asta Roseway is a principal research...

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095 - Machine teaching, LUIS and the democratization of custom AI with Dr. Riham Mansour

Episode Date: October 23, 2019

Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables conversational agents to provide general question-answer services. But in domains with more specific...

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094 - News from the front in the post-quantum crypto wars with Dr. Craig Costello

Episode Date: October 16, 2019

Dr. Craig Costello is in the business of safeguarding your secrets. And he uses math to do it. A researcher in the Security and Cryptography group at...

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