Microsoft Research Podcast
Episodes
009r - Life at the Intersection of AI and Society with Dr. Ece Kamar
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode first aired in January, 2018. As the reality of artificial intelligence continues to capture our imagination, and critical AI systems ent...
082 - The brave new world of cloud-scale systems and networking with Dr. Lidong Zhou
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re like me, you’re no longer amazed by how all your technologies can work for you. Rather, you’ve begun to take for granted that they sim...
082 - The brave new world of cloud-scale systems and networking with Dr. Lidong Zhou
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re like me, you’re no longer amazed by how all your technologies can work for you. Rather, you’ve begun to take for granted that they sim...
082 - The brave new world of cloud-scale systems and networking with Dr. Lidong Zhou
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re like me, you’re no longer amazed by how all your technologies can work for you. Rather, you’ve begun to take for granted that they sim...
081 - Game on with Dr. Chris Bishop and Phil Spencer
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Chris Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and director of MSR Cambridge, where he oversees an impressive portfolio of research including machin...
081 - Game on with Dr. Chris Bishop and Phil Spencer
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Chris Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and director of MSR Cambridge, where he oversees an impressive portfolio of research including machin...
081 - Game on with Dr. Chris Bishop and Phil Spencer
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Chris Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and director of MSR Cambridge, where he oversees an impressive portfolio of research including machin...
080 - All Data AI with Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You may not know who Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon is, but if you’ve watched a TV show or movie in the last two decades, you’ve probably seen some of his ...
080 - All Data AI with Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You may not know who Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon is, but if you’ve watched a TV show or movie in the last two decades, you’ve probably seen some of his ...
080 - All Data AI with Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You may not know who Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon is, but if you’ve watched a TV show or movie in the last two decades, you’ve probably seen some of his ...
079 - Making the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve recently found it more difficult to focus your attention for a lengthy stretch of time in order to get a complex task done… or worse, fo...
079 - Making the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve recently found it more difficult to focus your attention for a lengthy stretch of time in order to get a complex task done… or worse, fo...
079 - Making the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve recently found it more difficult to focus your attention for a lengthy stretch of time in order to get a complex task done… or worse, fo...
078 - Machine teaching with Dr. Patrice Simard
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables computers to learn by observing the world, recognizing patterns and self-training via experience. Muc...
078 - Machine teaching with Dr. Patrice Simard
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables computers to learn by observing the world, recognizing patterns and self-training via experience. Muc...
078 - Machine teaching with Dr. Patrice Simard
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables computers to learn by observing the world, recognizing patterns and self-training via experience. Muc...
077 - The productive software engineer with Dr. Tom Zimmermann
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re in software development, Dr. Tom Zimmermann, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, wants you to be more productive, and he...
077 - The productive software engineer with Dr. Tom Zimmermann
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re in software development, Dr. Tom Zimmermann, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, wants you to be more productive, and he...
077 - The productive software engineer with Dr. Tom Zimmermann
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re in software development, Dr. Tom Zimmermann, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, wants you to be more productive, and he...
076 - Speech and language: the crown jewel of AI with Dr. Xuedong Huang
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Mi...
076 - Speech and language: the crown jewel of AI with Dr. Xuedong Huang
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Mi...
076 - Speech and language: the crown jewel of AI with Dr. Xuedong Huang
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Mi...
075 - Reinforcement learning for the real world with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
075 - Reinforcement learning for the real world with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
075 - Reinforcement learning for the real world with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
074 - CHI squared with Dr. Ken Hinckley and Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 C...
074 - CHI squared with Dr. Ken Hinckley and Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 C...
074 - CHI squared with Dr. Ken Hinckley and Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 C...
073 - Froid and the relational database query quandry with Dr. Karthik Ramachandra
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the world of relational databases, structured query language, or SQL, has long been King of the Queries, primarily because of its ubiquity and unpa...
073 - Froid and the relational database query quandry with Dr. Karthik Ramachandra
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the world of relational databases, structured query language, or SQL, has long been King of the Queries, primarily because of its ubiquity and unpa...
073 - Froid and the relational database query quandry with Dr. Karthik Ramachandra
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the world of relational databases, structured query language, or SQL, has long been King of the Queries, primarily because of its ubiquity and unpa...
072 - AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
072 - AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
072 - AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
071 - Holograms, spatial anchors and the future of computer vision with Dr. Marc Pollefeys
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Micros...
071 - Holograms, spatial anchors and the future of computer vision with Dr. Marc Pollefeys
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Micros...
071 - Holograms, spatial anchors and the future of computer vision with Dr. Marc Pollefeys
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Micros...
070 - Enabling design with Ann Paradiso
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Paradiso is an interaction designer and the Principal User Experience Designer for the NExT Enable group at Microsoft Research. She’s also the e...
070 - Enabling design with Ann Paradiso
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Paradiso is an interaction designer and the Principal User Experience Designer for the NExT Enable group at Microsoft Research. She’s also the e...
070 - Enabling design with Ann Paradiso
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Paradiso is an interaction designer and the Principal User Experience Designer for the NExT Enable group at Microsoft Research. She’s also the e...
069 - All about automated machine learning with Dr. Nicolo Fusi
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 research...
069 - All about automated machine learning with Dr. Nicolo Fusi
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 research...
069 - All about automated machine learning with Dr. Nicolo Fusi
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 research...
068 - Project Triton and the physics of sound with Dr. Nikunj Raghuvanshi
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 au...
068 - Project Triton and the physics of sound with Dr. Nikunj Raghuvanshi
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 au...
068 - Project Triton and the physics of sound with Dr. Nikunj Raghuvanshi
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 au...
067 - Programming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of information processing systems, we often think of computers, but we ourselves are made up of information processing systems – trill...
067 - Programming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of information processing systems, we often think of computers, but we ourselves are made up of information processing systems – trill...
067 - Programming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of information processing systems, we often think of computers, but we ourselves are made up of information processing systems – trill...
066 (rerun) - Cryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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’r...
066 (rerun) - Cryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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’r...
066 (rerun) - Cryptography for the post-quantum world with Dr. Brian LaMacchia
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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’r...
065 - Securing the vote with Dr. Josh Benaloh
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Benal...
065 - Securing the vote with Dr. Josh Benaloh
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Benal...
065 - Securing the vote with Dr. Josh Benaloh
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Benal...
064 - Talking with machines with Dr. Layla El Asri
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
064 - Talking with machines with Dr. Layla El Asri
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
064 - Talking with machines with Dr. Layla El Asri
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
063 - Competing in the X Games of machine learning with Dr. Manik Varma
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
063 - Competing in the X Games of machine learning with Dr. Manik Varma
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
063 - Competing in the X Games of machine learning with Dr. Manik Varma
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
062 - Putting the “human” in human computer interaction with Haiyan Zhang
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Haiyan Zhang is a designer, technologist and maker of things (really cool technical things) who currently holds the unusual title of Innovation Direct...
062 - Putting the “human” in human computer interaction with Haiyan Zhang
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Haiyan Zhang is a designer, technologist and maker of things (really cool technical things) who currently holds the unusual title of Innovation Direct...
062 - Putting the “human” in human computer interaction with Haiyan Zhang
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Haiyan Zhang is a designer, technologist and maker of things (really cool technical things) who currently holds the unusual title of Innovation Direct...
061 - Enable(ing) people to do more with Dr. Rico Malvar
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From his deep technical roots as a principal researcher and founder of the Communications, Collaboration and Signal Processing group at MSR, through h...
061 - Enable(ing) people to do more with Dr. Rico Malvar
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From his deep technical roots as a principal researcher and founder of the Communications, Collaboration and Signal Processing group at MSR, through h...
061 - Enable(ing) people to do more with Dr. Rico Malvar
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From his deep technical roots as a principal researcher and founder of the Communications, Collaboration and Signal Processing group at MSR, through h...
060 - Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
060 - Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
060 - Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
059 - Building contextually intelligent assistants with Dr. Paul Bennett
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
059 - Building contextually intelligent assistants with Dr. Paul Bennett
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
059 - Building contextually intelligent assistants with Dr. Paul Bennett
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
058 - Scaling the Everest of software security with Dr. Jonathan Protzenko
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When people first started making software, computers were relatively rare and there was no internet, so programming languages were designed to get the...
058 - Scaling the Everest of software security with Dr. Jonathan Protzenko
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When people first started making software, computers were relatively rare and there was no internet, so programming languages were designed to get the...
058 - Scaling the Everest of software security with Dr. Jonathan Protzenko
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When people first started making software, computers were relatively rare and there was no internet, so programming languages were designed to get the...
057 (rerun) - Making intelligence intelligible with Dr. Rich Caruana
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
057 (rerun) - Making intelligence intelligible with Dr. Rich Caruana
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
057 (rerun) - Making intelligence intelligible with Dr. Rich Caruana
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
056 (rerun) - Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
056 (rerun) - Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
056 (rerun) - Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
055 (rerun) - Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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....
055 (rerun) - Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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....
055 (rerun) - Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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....
054 - Soundscaping the world with Amos Miller
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 inno...
054 - Soundscaping the world with Amos Miller
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 inno...
054 - Soundscaping the world with Amos Miller
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 inno...
053 - Chasing convex bodies and other random topics with Dr. Sebastien Bubeck
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sebastien Bubeck is a mathematician and a senior researcher in the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Microsoft Research. He’s also a se...
053 - Chasing convex bodies and other random topics with Dr. Sebastien Bubeck
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sebastien Bubeck is a mathematician and a senior researcher in the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Microsoft Research. He’s also a se...
053 - Chasing convex bodies and other random topics with Dr. Sebastien Bubeck
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sebastien Bubeck is a mathematician and a senior researcher in the Machine Learning and Optimization group at Microsoft Research. He’s also a se...
052 - Machine learning and the learning machine with Dr. Christopher Bishop
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christopher Bishop is quite a fellow. Literally. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Fellow of Darwin College in Cambridge, England. Fello...
052 - Machine learning and the learning machine with Dr. Christopher Bishop
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christopher Bishop is quite a fellow. Literally. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Fellow of Darwin College in Cambridge, England. Fello...
052 - Machine learning and the learning machine with Dr. Christopher Bishop
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christopher Bishop is quite a fellow. Literally. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Fellow of Darwin College in Cambridge, England. Fello...
051 (rerun) - When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode first aired in March (2018)One of the most intriguing areas of machine learning research is affective computing, where scientists are wor...
051 (rerun) - When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode first aired in March (2018)One of the most intriguing areas of machine learning research is affective computing, where scientists are wor...
051 (rerun) - When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode first aired in March (2018)One of the most intriguing areas of machine learning research is affective computing, where scientists are wor...
050 - Hearing in 3D with Dr. Ivan Tashev
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After decades of research in processing audio signals, we’ve reached the point of so-called performance saturation. But recent advances in machine l...
050 - Hearing in 3D with Dr. Ivan Tashev
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After decades of research in processing audio signals, we’ve reached the point of so-called performance saturation. But recent advances in machine l...
050 - Hearing in 3D with Dr. Ivan Tashev
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After decades of research in processing audio signals, we’ve reached the point of so-called performance saturation. But recent advances in machine l...