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Microsoft Research Podcast

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

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052 - Machine learning and the learning machine with Dr. Christopher Bishop

052 - Machine learning and the learning machine with Dr. Christopher Bishop

Dr. Christopher Bishop is quite a fellow. Literally. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Fellow of Darwin Colleg... Read more

28 Nov 2018

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021 - AI, ML and the Reasoning Machine with Dr. Geoff Gordon

021 - AI, ML and the Reasoning Machine with Dr. Geoff Gordon

Teaching computers to read, think and communicate like humans is a daunting task, but it’s one that Dr. Geoff Gordon emb... Read more

25 Apr 2018

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036 - A Conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott

036 - A Conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott

Kevin Scott has embraced many roles over the course of his illustrious career in technology: software developer, enginee... Read more

8 Aug 2018

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030 - Examining the Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Fernando Diaz

030 - Examining the Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Fernando Diaz

Developing complex artificial intelligence systems in a lab is a challenging task, but what happens when they go into pr... Read more

27 Jun 2018

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041 - Playing to the Crowd and Other Social Media Mandates with Dr. Nancy Baym

041 - Playing to the Crowd and Other Social Media Mandates with Dr. Nancy Baym

Dr. Nancy Baym is a communication scholar, a Principal Researcher in MSR’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, lab, and something ... Read more

12 Sep 2018

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067 - Programming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips

067 - Programming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips

When we think of information processing systems, we often think of computers, but we ourselves are made up of informatio... Read more

13 Mar 2019

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016 - Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler

016 - Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler

Learning to read, think and communicate effectively is part of the curriculum for every young student. But Dr. Adam Tris... Read more

21 Mar 2018

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069 - All about automated machine learning with Dr. Nicolo Fusi

069 - All about automated machine learning with Dr. Nicolo Fusi

This episode first aired in September, 2018: You may have heard the phrase, necessity is the mother of invention, but fo... Read more

27 Mar 2019

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115 - Diving into Deep InfoMax with Dr. Devon Hjelm

115 - Diving into Deep InfoMax with Dr. Devon Hjelm

Dr. Devon Hjelm is a senior researcher at the Microsoft Research lab in Montreal, and today, he joins me to dive deep in... Read more

13 May 2020

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

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

Dr. Jianfeng Gao is a veteran computer scientist, an IEEE Fellow and the current head of the Deep Learning Group at Micr... Read more

29 Jan 2020

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059 - Building contextually intelligent assistants with Dr. Paul Bennett

059 - Building contextually intelligent assistants with Dr. Paul Bennett

The entertainment industry has long offered us a vision of the perfect personal assistant: one that not only meets our s... Read more

16 Jan 2019

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035 - Research You Can (Really) Use with Dr. Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam

035 - Research You Can (Really) Use with Dr. Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam

Dr. Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam is a researcher by trade, but by nature, he’s an entrepreneur, and a hacker with a hea... Read more

1 Aug 2018

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040 - Putting the Cloud Under the Sea with Ben Cutler

040 - Putting the Cloud Under the Sea with Ben Cutler

Datacenters have a hard time keeping their cool. Literally. And with more and more datacenters coming online all over th... Read more

5 Sep 2018

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020 - Getting Good VIBEs from Your Computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski

020 - Getting Good VIBEs from Your Computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski

Emotions are fundamental to human interaction, but in a world where humans are increasingly interacting with AI systems,... Read more

18 Apr 2018

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023 - Clouds, Catapults and Life After the End of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger

023 - Clouds, Catapults and Life After the End of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger

Some of the world’s leading architects are people that you’ve probably never heard of, and they’ve designed and built so... Read more

9 May 2018

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033 (rerun) - AI and Our Future With Machines with Dr. Eric Horvitz

033 (rerun) - AI and Our Future With Machines with Dr. Eric Horvitz

First aired on December 4th, 2017. When it comes to artificial intelligence, Dr. Eric Horvitz is as passionate as he is ... Read more

18 Jul 2018

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079 - Making the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal

079 - Making the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal

If you’ve recently found it more difficult to focus your attention for a lengthy stretch of time in order to get a compl... Read more

5 Jun 2019

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105 - Responsible AI with Dr. Saleema Amershi

105 - Responsible AI with Dr. Saleema Amershi

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 pr... Read more

5 Feb 2020

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

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

Dr. John Langford, a partner researcher in the Machine Learning group at Microsoft Research New York City, is a reinforc... Read more

8 May 2019

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066 (rerun) - Cryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia

066 (rerun) - Cryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia

This episode first aired in August of 2018. You know those people who work behind the scenes to make sure nothing bad ha... Read more

6 Mar 2019

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