Microsoft Research Podcast

Ideas: The journey to DNA data storage

Research manager Karin Strauss and members of the DNA Data Storage Project reflect on the path to developing a synthetic DNA–based system for archival data storage, including the recent open-source release of its most powerful algorithm for DNA error correction.

Recent Podcasts

  1. MSR Podcast "What's your story" | Desney Tan

    What’s Your Story: Desney Tan 

    November 16, 2023 | Johannes Gehrke and Desney Tan

    From service in the Singapore Armed Forces to autonomous navigation with NASA & VR with Disney, Desney Tan’s life journey hasn’t been linear. Learn how Tan landed at Microsoft & about the purpose guiding his work in the podcast series “What’s Your Story”.

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    Abstracts: October 23, 2023 

    October 23, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga, Andy Gordon, and Carina Negreanu

    Today on “Abstracts,” Partner Research Manager Andy Gordon & Senior Researcher Carina Negreanu explore new work introducing co-audit, a term for any tool-assisted experience that helps users of generative AI find and fix mistakes in AI output.

  3. MSR Podcast "What's your story" | Ranveer Chandra

    What’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra 

    October 19, 2023 | Johannes Gehrke and Ranveer Chandra

    You may know tech, but how well do you know the people behind the advances? Ranveer Chandra talks about growing up in India, his work in systems and networking, and finding joy in your job in the first episode of the #MSRPodcast “What’s Your Story”.

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    Abstracts: October 9, 2023 

    October 9, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga and Sheng Zhang

    Researcher Dr. Sheng Zhang joins “Abstracts”—your source for cutting-edge research in brief—to discuss a recent paper on distilling large language models into smaller, more efficient ones capable of excelling in broad application classes.

  5. MSR Podcast - AI Frontiers with Hanna Wallach

    AI Frontiers: Measuring and mitigating harms with Hanna Wallach 

    September 28, 2023 | Hanna Wallach and Ashley Llorens

    Powerful large-scale AI models like GPT-4 are showing dramatic improvements in reasoning, problem-solving, and language capabilities. This marks a phase change for artificial intelligence—and a signal of accelerating progress to come.    In this Microsoft Research Podcast series, AI scientist and engineer Ashley Llorens hosts conversations…