Microsoft Research Podcast

Collaborators: Silica in space with Richard Black and Dexter Greene

September 5, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga, Richard Black, and Dexter Greene
College freshman Dexter Greene and Microsoft research manager Richard Black discuss how technology that stores data in glass is supporting students as they expand earlier efforts to communicate what it means to be human to extraterrestrials.
  1. Jennifer Tour Chayes posing for the camera

    Leading labs with Dr. Jennifer Chayes 

    October 10, 2018

    Episode 45, October 10, 2018 - Dr. Chayes shares her passion for the value of undirected inquiry, talks about her unlikely journey from rebel to researcher, and explains how she believes her research philosophy – more botanist than boss – prepares the fertile ground necessary…

  2. The Future is Fusion with Asta Roseway podcast

    The future is fusion with Asta Roseway 

    October 3, 2018

    Episode 44, October 3, 2018 - Asta Roseway gives an inside look at one of the most unconventional labs at Microsoft Research. Located at the intersection of science, technology and art, it’s a lab that insists that technology, like art, should push boundaries, tell stories…

  3. Dr. Nicolo Fusi Podcast headshot

    All about automated machine learning with Dr. Nicolo Fusi 

    September 26, 2018

    Episode 43, September 26, 2018 - Dr. Nicolo Fusi gives us an inside look at Automated Machine Learning – Microsoft’s version of the industry’s AutoML technology – and shares the story of how an idea he had while working on a gene editing problem with…

  4. Gretchen Huizinga et al. posing for a photo

    Internships Ahoy! with Kirsten Bray, Wei Dai and Sara Beery 

    September 19, 2018

    Episode 42, September 19, 2018 - On today’s podcast, you’ll hear the stories of three of these interns, each of whom came to Microsoft Research from a different field, with a different story and a different perspective, but all of whom share MSR’s passion for…

  5. Nancy Baym

    Playing to the crowd and other social media mandates with Dr. Nancy Baym 

    September 12, 2018

    Episode 41, September 12, 2018 - Dr. Nancy Baym shares her insights on a host of topics ranging from the arduous maintenance requirements of social media, to the dialectic tension between connection and privacy, to the funhouse mirror nature of emerging technologies. She also talks…

  6. Ben Cutler MSR Natick

    Putting the cloud under the sea with Ben Cutler 

    September 5, 2018

    Episode 40, September 5, 2018 - In today’s podcast we find out a bit about what else the Special Projects team is up to, and then we hear all about Project Natick and how Ben and his team conceived of, and delivered on, a novel…

  7. Katja Hofmann

    Malmo, Minecraft and machine learning with Dr. Katja Hofmann 

    August 29, 2018

    Episode 39, August 29, 2018 - Dr. Hofmann talks about her vision of a future where machines learn to collaborate with people and empower them to help solve complex, real-world problems. She also shares the story of how her early years in East Germany, behind…

  8. Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott

    A conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott 

    August 8, 2018

    Episode 36, August 8, 2018 - In a wide-ranging interview, Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scott shares his insights on both the history and the future of computing, talks about how his impulse to celebrate the extraordinary people “behind the tech” led to an eponymous…