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213 episodes transcribedThis 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...
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 co...
This episode first aired in March, 2018.Learning to read, think and communicate effectively is part of the curriculum for every young student. But Dr....
Amos Miller is a product strategist on the Microsoft Research NeXT Enable team, and he’s played a pivotal role in bringing some of MSR’s most innovati...
Dr. Sebastien Bubeck is a mathematician and a senior researcher in the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Microsoft Research. He’s also a self...
Dr. Christopher Bishop is quite a fellow. Literally. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Fellow of Darwin College in Cambridge, England. Fello...
This episode first aired in March (2018)One of the most intriguing areas of machine learning research is affective computing, where scientists are wor...
After decades of research in processing audio signals, we’ve reached the point of so-called performance saturation. But recent advances in machine lea...
