ACM ByteCast
Episodes
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton - Episode 80
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Andrew laureates Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton. They received the Turing Aw...
Dawn Song - Episode 79
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Fellow Dawn Song, Professor in Co...
Russ Cox - Episode 78
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts Russ Cox, Distinguished Engineer at Google. Previously, he was the Go language technical lead at G...
Anusha Nerella - Episode 77
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Anusha Nerella, a Senior Software Engineer at State Street. She has more than 13 years of experien...
Ilias Diakonikolas - Episode 76
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts 2024 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Ilias Diakonikolas, Professor at the University of Wis...
Cecilia Aragon - Episode 75
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts ACM Distinguished Member Cecilia Aragon, Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and E...
Torsten Hoefler - Episode 74
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts 2024 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Torsten Hoefler, a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zuric...
Maja Matarić - Episode 73
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts 2024 ACM Athena Lecturer and ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award recipient Maja Matarić, the Chan Soon-Shio...
Alfred Spector - Episode 72
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts ACM Fellow and 2016 ACM Software System Award recipient Alfred Spector, Professor of Practice in t...
Henrique Malvar - Episode 71
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Henrique Malvar, a signal processing researcher at Microsoft Research (Emeritus). He spent more th...
Kate Kallot - Episode 70
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes Kate Kallot, founder and CEO of Amini...
Michael J. Freedman - Episode 69
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts ACM Fellow Michael J. Freedman, Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton Universi...
Peter Lee - Episode 68
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Fellow Peter Lee, President of Mic...
Mary Lou Jepsen - Episode 67
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes Mary Lou Jepsen, CEO and Founder of Op...
Travis S. Humble - Episode 66
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Travis S. Humble, Director of the Quantum Science Center (QSC), a Distinguished Scientist at Oak R...
Darja Smite - Episode 65
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Harald Störrle hosts Darja Smite, Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology and a part-t...
Chieko Asakawa - Episode 64
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Informati...
Alvin Wang Graylin - Episode 63
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Alvin Wang Graylin, Global VP of Corporate Development at HTC. Alvin is also Chairman of the Virtu...
Jennifer Chayes - Episode 62
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts ACM Fellow and ACM Distinguished Service Award recipient Jennifer Chayes, Dean of the College of Co...
Roger Dannenberg - Episode 61
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts ACM Fellow Roger Dannenberg, a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Art & Music at Carnegie ...
Xin Luna Dong - Episode 60
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts ACM and IEEE Fellow Xin Luna Dong, Principal Scientist at Meta Reality Labs. She has significantly ...
Nashlie Sephus - Episode 59
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Nashlie Sephus, Principal Tech Evangelist for Amazon AI focusing on fairness and identifying biase...
Wen-Mei Hwu - Episode 58
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award...
Xavier Leroy - Episode 57
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Harald Störrle hosts ACM Fellow and Software System Award recipient Xavier Leroy, professor at Collège de France a...
Ramón Cáceres - Episode 56
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts ACM Fellow Ramón Cáceres, a computer science researcher and software engineer. His areas of focus...
Juan Gilbert - Episode 55
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Fellow Juan Gilbert, the Andrew Ba...
Yoshua Bengio - Episode 54
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Yoshua Bengio, Professor at the University of Montreal, and Founder...
Francesca Rossi - Episode 53
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Informatics...
Partha Talukdar - Episode 52
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts Partha Talukdar, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Research India, where he leads a group f...
Rosalind Picard - Episode 51
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Fellow Rosalind Picard, a scientis...
Edward Y. Chang - Episode 50
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts 2021 ACM Fellow Edward Y. Chang, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Sta...
Jacki O'Neill - Episode 49
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts Jacki O'Neill, Director of the Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) in Nairobi, Kenya, where ...
Ranveer Chandra - Episode 48
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts 2022 ACM Fellow Ranveer Chandra, Managing Director for Research for Industry and CTO of Agri-Food ...
Yael Tauman Kalai - Episode 47
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts 2022 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Yael Tauman Kalai, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft R...
Noriko Arai - Episode 46
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes Noriko Arai, a professor in the Inform...
Eugenio Zuccarelli - Episode 45
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Eugenio Zuccarelli, Data Science Manager at CVS Health, where he leads innovation efforts for comp...
Regina Barzilay - Episode 44
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Informatics...
Kush Varshney - Episode 43
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts Kush Varshney, a distinguished research scientist and manager at IBM Research in New York. He leads...
Anima Anandkumar - Episode 42
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Anima Anandkumar, a Bren Professor of Computing at California Institute of Technology (the younges...
Mor Peleg - Episode 41
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Informa...
Robert Metcalfe - Episode 40
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate Ro...
H.-S. Philip Wong - Episode 39
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACMByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts H.-S. Philip Wong, the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Scho...
Pattie Maes - Episode 38
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Pattie Maes, a professor at MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences. Pattie runs MIT Media Lab's ...
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman- Episode 37
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman. As joint creators of the...
Holly Urban - Episode 36
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Informatics...
Pat Pataranutaporn - Episode 35
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts Pat Pataranutaporn, technologist and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)....
Team V Bionic - Episode 34
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts members of team V Bionic, who won the Imagine Cup 2022 grand prize for ExoHeal, a modular exoskele...
Neil Trevett - Episode 33
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Neil Trevett, Vice President of Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA and the President of the Khronos Gr...
Matei Zaharia - Episode 32
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts Matei Zaharia, computer scientist, educator, and creator of Apache Spark. Matei is the Chief Techno...
Yaw Anokwa - Episode 31
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes research scientist, software engineer,...
Steve Nouri - Episode 30
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Steve Nouri, Founder of AI4Diversity, Founding Member of Hackmakers, and Chief AI Evangelist at Wa...
Nuria Oliver - Episode 29
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Nuria Oliver, Chief Scientific Adviser in Data Science at the Vodafone Institute, Chief Data Scien...
Michelle Zhou - Episode 28
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our new co-host Bruke Kifle, AI Product Manager at Microsoft and member of the ACM Practitioner Board, interviews Mic...
Charu Thomas - Episode 27
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes Charu Thomas, Founder and CEO of Ox. C...
Shyam Gollakota - Episode 26
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts 2020 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Shyam Gollakota. He is a Torode Professor and leads t...
Margo Seltzer - Episode 25
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts ACM Fellow Margo Seltzer, co-recipient of the 2020 ACM Software System Award (shared with Mike Ols...
Wendy Chapman - Episode 24
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the first of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Inform...
David Heinemeier Hansson - Episode 23
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts David Heinemeier Hansson, cofounder and CTO of Basecamp. In addition to his work on this popular p...
Amanda Randles - Episode 22
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts 2017 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Amanda Randles, the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stov...
Jelani Nelson - Episode 21
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes Jelani Nelson, Professor of Electrical...
Luiz André Barroso - Episode 20
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts 2020 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award recipient Luiz André Barroso of Google, where he drove tran...
Ayanna Howard - Episode 19
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts 2021-2022 ACM Athena Lecturer Ayanna Howard, Dean of the College of Engineering at The Ohio State ...
Mounia Lalmas - Episode 18
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Mounia Lalmas, Director of Research and Head of Tech Research in Personalization at Spotify, leadi...
Bryan Cantrill - Episode 17
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Oxide Computer Company and a past membe...
Leslie Lamport - Episode 16 (Special Episode in Partnership with the Hanselminutes Podcast)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Le...
Suchi Saria - Episode 15
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Suchi Saria, the John C. Malone Associate Professor of Machine Learning and Healthcare at Johns Ho...
Luis von Ahn - Episode 14
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts past ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, the wor...
Ramesh Raskar - Episode 13
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab where he directs the Camera Culture research g...
Denae Ford - Episode 12
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Denae Ford, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in the Software Analysis and Intelligence Team (...
Jeffrey Heer - Episode 11
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recipient Jeffrey Heer. Heer is the co-founder of Trifacta, a provid...
Maria Klawe - Episode 10
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts former ACM President Maria Klawe. Now in her 15th year as President of Harvey Mudd College, she is...
Vint Cerf - Episode 9
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of ACM ByteCast, host Jessica Bell chats with former ACM President Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Go...
Jennifer Widom - Episode 8
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rashmi Mohan welcomes ACM Fellow and past ACM-W Athena Lecturer Jennifer Widom, the Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the School of Eng...
Shwetak Patel - Episode 7
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, host Jessica Bell welcomes 2018 ACM Prize in Computing recipient and 2011 MacArthur Fellow Shwetak Patel. Patel is a ...
Robin Murphy - Episode 6
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, host Rashmi Mohan is joined by roboticist Robin Murphy, ACM Fellow and recipient of the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award fo...
Theo Schlossnagle - Episode 5
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Jessica Bell talks with widely respected industry thought leader Theo Schlossnagle, Founder and CTO at Circonus, Co-C...
Kristian Lum - Episode 4
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan welcomes Kristian Lum to the podcast. Lum is part of the research faculty at the University of Pennsylva...
Radia Perlman - Episode 3
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Jessica Bell is joined by Radia Perlman, ACM Fellow and renowned computer scientist, who has made fundamental contrib...
Don Knuth - Episode 2
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan is joined by 1974 ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Donald Knuth, author of the hugely popular textbook series, ...
John Hennessy & Dave Patterson - Episode 1
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan is joined by 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Laureates John Hennessy and David Patterson. Their conver...