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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror

Posted November 29, 2018 • 01:20:15

Jeff Atwood is a co-founder of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, websites that are visited by millions of people every day. Much like with Wikipedia,...

Guido van Rossum: Python

Posted November 22, 2018 • 01:26:51

Guido van Rossum is the creator of Python, one of the most popular and impactful programming languages in the world. Video version is available on...

Vladimir Vapnik: Statistical Learning

Posted November 16, 2018 • 00:54:12

Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC theory, and many foundational ideas in statistical learning....

Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning

Posted October 20, 2018 • 00:42:54

Yoshua Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann Lecun, is considered one of the three people most responsible for the advancement of deep learning...

Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason

Posted October 17, 2018 • 00:38:23

Steven Pinker is a professor at Harvard and before that was a professor at MIT. He is the author of many books, several of which have had a big impact...