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205 episodes transcribedComputer programming has often been perceived as the exclusive domain of computer scientists and software engineers. But that’s changing, thanks to th...
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...
Jenny Sabin is an architectural designer, a professor, a studio principal and MSR’s current Artist in Residence. Asta Roseway is a principal research...
Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables conversational agents to provide general question-answer services. But in domains with more specific...
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...
Using technology to help us improve our health is nothing new: a quick web search returns hundreds of apps and devices claiming to help us get fit, qu...
If someone asked you what snow leopards and Vincent Van Gogh have in common, you might think it was the beginning of a joke. It’s not, but if it were,...
Dr. Eyal Ofek is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and his work deals mainly with, well, reality. Augmented and virtual reality, to be precise...
Dr. Susan Dumais knows you have things to do, and if you need help finding stuff to get them done (and you probably do) then her long and illustrious...
In 2018, Microsoft launched the Microsoft AI Residency Program, a year-long, expanded research experience designed to give recent graduates in a varie...
Dr. Ed Cutrell is a Principal Researcher in the Ability group at Microsoft Research and he’s convinced that great technology should be available to ev...
As computing moves to the cloud, there is an increasing need for privacy in AI. In an ideal world, users would have the ability to compute on encrypte...
The ability to read and understand unstructured text, and then answer questions about it, is a common skill among literate humans. But for machines? N...
In an era of unprecedented advances in AI and machine learning, current gen systems and networks are being challenged by an unprecedented level of com...
Dr. Nathalie Riche envisions a future in which all of our data will be accessible, meaningful, compelling and artistic. And as a researcher in human c...
This episode first aired in January, 2018. When we look at a skyscraper or a suspension bridge, a simple search engine box on a screen looks tiny by c...
This episode first aired in March, 2018. There’s a big gap between memory and storage, and Dr. Anirudh Badam, of the Systems Research Group at Microso...
Dr. Johannes Gehrke is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and head of Architecture and Machine Learning for the Intelligent Communications and Conversations...
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...
This episode first aired in January, 2018. As the reality of artificial intelligence continues to capture our imagination, and critical AI systems ent...
