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

Posted November 28, 2018

Dr. Christopher Bishop is quite a fellow. Literally. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Fellow of Darwin College in Cambridge, England. Fellow...

051 (rerun) - When Psychology Meets Technology with Dr. Daniel McDuff

Posted November 21, 2018

This episode first aired in March (2018)
One of the most intriguing areas of machine learning research is affective computing, where scientists...

050 - Hearing in 3D with Dr. Ivan Tashev

Posted November 14, 2018

After decades of research in processing audio signals, we’ve reached the point of so-called performance saturation. But recent advances in machine...

049 - Celebrating 20 Years of MSR in Asia with Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Posted November 7, 2018

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...

048 - Storing Digital Data in Synthetic DNA with Dr. Karin Strauss

Posted October 31, 2018

As traditional semiconductor technologies for computer storage scale down, everyone is looking for alternative solutions to the growing gap between...