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200 episodes transcribedThis 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...
In 1998, Microsoft Research opened a small lab in Beijing to expand its research efforts and draw on the immense high-tech talent pool in China. No on...
As traditional semiconductor technologies for computer storage scale down, everyone is looking for alternative solutions to the growing gap between th...
The ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius famously exhorted his pupils to study the past if they would divine the future. In 2018, we get the same a...
2018 marks the 10th anniversary of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, so it’s the perfect time to talk with someone who was t...
Asta Roseway has a formal title. It’s Principal Research Designer in the HCI group at Microsoft Research. But she’s also been described as a conductor...
You may have heard the phrase, necessity is the mother of invention, but for Dr. Nicolo Fusi, a researcher at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge,...
At the heart of any vibrant research community, you’ll find a diverse range of scientists. You’re also likely to find a robust internship program, lik...
Dr. Nancy Baym is a communication scholar, a Principal Researcher in MSR’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, lab, and something of a cyberculture maven. She’s...
Datacenters have a hard time keeping their cool. Literally. And with more and more datacenters coming online all over the world, calls for innovative...
The wildly popular video game, Minecraft, might appear to be an unlikely candidate for machine learning research, but to Dr. Katja Hofmann, the resear...
You know those people who work behind the scenes to make sure nothing bad happens to you, and if they’re really good, you never know who they are beca...
If your idea of a great job includes pursuing untethered research, shepherding brilliant researchers and helping shape the long-term strategy of one o...
Kevin Scott has embraced many roles over the course of his illustrious career in technology: software developer, engineering executive, researcher, an...
