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059 - Building contextually intelligent assistants with Dr. Paul Bennett

Posted January 16, 2019

The entertainment industry has long offered us a vision of the perfect personal assistant: one that not only meets our stated needs but anticipates...

058 - Scaling the Everest of software security with Dr. Jonathan Protzenko

Posted January 9, 2019

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

Posted January 2, 2019

The episode first aired in May, 2018.
In the world of machine learning, there’s been a notable trade-off between accuracy and intelligibility....

056 (rerun) - Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones

Posted December 26, 2018

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...

055 (rerun) - Building Literate Machines with Dr. Adam Trischler

Posted December 19, 2018

This episode first aired in March, 2018.
Learning to read, think and communicate effectively is part of the curriculum for every young student....