Podcasts

PRODUCED BY: NATE CALDWELL

CSAIL Professor Gerald Jay Sussman discusses the importance of a breadth of research, lessons academia and industry can learn from each other, and how to be a flexible programmer. Podcast transcript can be accessed here. 

PRODUCED BY: Nate Caldwell

CSAIL Professor John Guttag discusses the process of incorporating AI into healthcare. Guttag also talks about the process of bringing an idea out of the lab and into a full-fledged business.

The podcast transcript can be found here.

PRODUCED BY: Nate Caldwell

Una-May discusses the difference between deep learning and deep understanding and some of the challenges humans face when writing as well reading code. Learning code is like learning a new language which is not necessarily intuitive, it is hard to read and error prone. O’Reilly’s group AnyScale Learning for All (ALFA) develops new data-driven analyses of online coding courses, deep learning techniques for program representations, and adversarial attacks on machine learning models.

PRODUCED BY: Nate Caldwell

CSAIL Professor David Karger discusses two of his research areas with CSAIL Alliances. He reviews his team's work on no-code and low-code authoring to help people create custom solutions to unique problems. Next, he discusses tools he's created to improve online discussions.

The podcast transcript can be found here. 

PRODUCED BY: Nate Caldwell

CSAIL's David Clark discusses the differences between misinformation and disinformation, and why the latter is a more serious threat. He also examines possible solutions to the disinformation problem.

The podcast transcript can be found here.