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#112 – Ian Hutchinson: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

Posted July 29, 2020 • 02:01:43

Ian Hutchinson is a nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at MIT. He has made a number of important contributions in plasma physics including the magnetic...

#111 – Richard Karp: Algorithms and Computational Complexity

Posted July 26, 2020 • 02:08:00

Richard Karp is a professor at Berkeley and one of the most important figures in the history of theoretical computer science. In 1985, he received the...

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

Posted July 21, 2020 • 01:42:04

Jitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vision, the kind before the deep learning revolution,...

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

Posted July 18, 2020 • 01:37:59

Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of...

#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning

Posted July 14, 2020 • 01:37:59

Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including...