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120 - Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones

Posted May 5, 202100:40:15

Today, people around the globe—from teachers to small-business owners to finance executives—use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the information...

119 - Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud

Posted July 8, 202000:38:05

Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to...

118 - Accessible systems for sign language computation with Dr. Danielle Bragg

Posted June 17, 202000:43:13

Many computer science researchers set their sights on building general AI technologies that could impact hundreds of millions – or even billions –...

117 - Provably efficient reinforcement learning with Dr. Akshay Krishnamurthy

Posted June 3, 202000:38:38

MSR’s New York City lab is home to some of the best reinforcement learning research on the planet but if you ask any of the researchers, they’ll...

116 - Harvesting randomness, HAIbrid algorithms and safe AI with Dr. Siddhartha Sen

Posted May 27, 2020

Dr. Siddhartha Sen is a Principal Researcher in MSR’s New York City lab, and his research interests are, if not impossible, at least impossible sounding:...