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

Posted September 12, 2018

Dr. Nancy Baym is a communication scholar, a Principal Researcher in MSR’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, lab, and something of a cyberculture maven. She’s...

040 - Putting the Cloud Under the Sea with Ben Cutler

Posted September 5, 2018

Datacenters have a hard time keeping their cool. Literally. And with more and more datacenters coming online all over the world, calls for innovative...

039 - Malmo, Minecraft and Machine Learning with Dr. Katja Hofmann

Posted August 29, 2018

The wildly popular video game, Minecraft, might appear to be an unlikely candidate for machine learning research, but to Dr. Katja Hofmann, the research...

038 - Cryptography for the Post-Quantum World with Dr. Brian LaMacchia

Posted August 22, 2018

You know those people who work behind the scenes to make sure nothing bad happens to you, and if they’re really good, you never know who they are...

037 - A Brief History of Networking (and a Bit About the Future Too) with Dr. Victor Bahl

Posted August 15, 2018

If your idea of a great job includes pursuing untethered research, shepherding brilliant researchers and helping shape the long-term strategy of one...