An ongoing series of conversations bringing you right up to the cutting edge of Microsoft Research.
200 episodes transcribedIf you’re in software development, Dr. Tom Zimmermann, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, wants you to be more productive, and he’s...
When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with your computer… and felt like it truly understood you? Well, if Dr. Xuedong Huang, a Micr...
Dr. John Langford, a partner researcher in the Machine Learning group at Microsoft Research New York City, is a reinforcement learning expert who is w...
If you want to know what’s going on in the world of human computer interaction research, or what’s new at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Compu...
We hear a lot these days about “AI for good” and the efforts of many companies to harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve some of our bi...
Dr. Marc Pollefeys is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, a Partner Director of Science for Microsoft, and the Director of a new Microsof...
Ann Paradiso is an interaction designer and the Principal User Experience Designer for the NExT Enable group at Microsoft Research. She’s also the epi...
This episode first aired in September, 2018: You may have heard the phrase, necessity is the mother of invention, but for Dr. Nicolo Fusi, a researche...
If you’ve ever played video games, you know that for the most part, they look a lot better than they sound. That’s largely due to the fact that audibl...
When we think of information processing systems, we often think of computers, but we ourselves are made up of information processing systems – trillio...
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 r...
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,...
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...
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 learnin...
Haiyan Zhang is a designer, technologist and maker of things (really cool technical things) who currently holds the unusual title of Innovation Direct...
From his deep technical roots as a principal researcher and founder of the Communications, Collaboration and Signal Processing group at MSR, through h...
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 I...
The entertainment industry has long offered us a vision of the perfect personal assistant: one that not only meets our stated needs but anticipates ne...
When people first started making software, computers were relatively rare and there was no internet, so programming languages were designed to get the...
The episode first aired in May, 2018.In the world of machine learning, there’s been a notable trade-off between accuracy and intelligibility. Either t...
