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Talking Machines: The economic impact of machine learning, with Baidu’s Andrew Ng
In episode twelve we talk with Andrew Ng, Chief Scientist at Baidu, about how speech recognition is going to explode the way we use mobile devices and his approach to working on the problem....
04 June 2015, by
Talking Machines
Talking Machines: Neil Lawrence on privacy in the age of machine learning
In episode eleven we chat with Neil Lawrence from the University of Sheffield. We talk about the problems of privacy in the age of machine learning, and the responsibilities that come with using mach...
22 May 2015, by
Talking Machines
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182
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Supernumerary Limbs, with Federico Parietti
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Federico Parietti, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about his research on supernumerary robotic limbs that can be used in manufact...
15 May 2015, by
Audrow Nash
Talking Machines: Interdisciplinary data, with David Blei
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In Episode 10 we talk with David Blei of Columbia University. We talk about his work on latent dirichlet allocation, topic models, the PhD program in data that he’s helping to create at C...
07 May 2015, by
Talking Machines
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181
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bStem, with Todd Hylton
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In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Todd Hylton, Senior Vice President at Brain Corporation, about neuromorphic computers. They discuss the robotics development board bStem, which appro...
01 May 2015, by
Audrow Nash
The real soft robots that inspired Baymax, with Chris Atkeson
Baymax, the lovable, inflatable robot star of Disney’s recent hit, Big Hero 6, is far from a movie fantasy. With their soft cushiony bodies, robots like Baymax have very real prospects as future car...
28 April 2015, by
Helmut Hauser
Talking Machines: Developing effective medicine by predicting molecular activity, with George Dahl
In episode nine we talk with George Dahl, of the University of Toronto, about his work on the Merck molecular activity challenge on kaggle and speech recognition. George recently successfully defend...
24 April 2015, by
Talking Machines
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180
podcast
Soft Robotics Toolkit, with Donal Holland
In this podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks to Donal Holland of Harvard University about his team’s work on the Soft Robotics Toolkit....
17 April 2015, by
Ron Vanderkley
Talking Machines: Spinning programming plates and creative algorithms, with Charles Sutton
In episode eight we talk with Charles Sutton, a professor in the School of Informatics University of Edinburgh about computer programming and using machine learning to better understand how it’s d...
09 April 2015, by
Talking Machines
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179
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European Robotics, with European Robotics Forum, Cécile Huet and Uwe Haass
In this episode, Sabine Hauert interviews main stakeholders in European Robotics at the European Robotics Forum in Vienna....
03 April 2015, by
Sabine Hauert
Talking Machines: The automatic statistician and electrified meat, with Zoubin Ghahramani
In episode seven of Talking Machines we talk with Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His project, The Automatic S...
26 March 2015, by
Talking Machines
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178
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Speech-Based Emotion Recognition, with Christina Brester
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christina Brester, from the Siberian State Aerospace University, about her research on a method to identify emotional state from speech. This method performs sp...
20 March 2015, by
Audrow Nash
Future of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun (Part 2)
We hear the second part of our conversation with with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook and NYU), who talk with us abo...
17 March 2015, by
Talking Machines
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177
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Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing, with Kurosh Madani
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Kurosh Madani from the University of Paris-EST Créteil (UPEC) about neural networks. The talk begins with an overview of neural networks before discussing thei...
06 March 2015, by
Audrow Nash
Livestream: Rodney Brooks, Abhinav Gupta, Andrew McAfee on AI and the rise of robots
Livestream of the Council of Foreign Relations' Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology starting 02/27/2015 at 12:45 EST....
27 February 2015, by
Robohub Editors
Talking Machines: History of machine learning, w. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun
In episode five of Talking Machines, we hear the first part of our conversation with Geoffrey Hinton (Google and University of Toronto), Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Yann LeCun (Facebook...
26 February 2015, by
Talking Machines
The new AI and robotics: Lecture by Fabio Bonsignorio
In this video lecture Fabio Bonsignorio talks about novel ideas that might just lead to a paradigm change robotics that will allow us to apply robot systems to natural environments, and not just...
12 February 2015, by
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS)
Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach
In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She's also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women ...
12 February 2015, by
Talking Machines
Video: A day in the life of BeatBots’ Marek Michalowski
At ConnectEd Studios we had the pleasure of visiting the workshop of Marek Michalowski, a co-founder of BeatBots. BeatBots is the robotic design studio behind the Keepon, and creates dynamic robotic ...
09 February 2015, by
ConnectEd Studios
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175
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Mobile Robots and Virtual Worlds, with Riccardo Cassinis
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Professor Riccardo Cassinis from the University of Brescia in Italy about using robotics in education. Cassinis speaks about having children, from primary schoo...
06 February 2015, by
Audrow Nash
Talking Machines: Common sense problems & learning about machine learning with Kevin Murphy
On episode three of Talking Machines we sit down with Kevin Murphy, who is currently a research scientist at Google. We talk with him about the work he’s doing there on the Knowledge Vault, his tex...
29 January 2015, by
Talking Machines
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174
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Looney the Robot, with Hunter Lloyd
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Hunter Lloyd, who is a Professor of Robotics at Montana State University and a comedian. Hunter performs a comedy act for all ages with partner Looney, a NAO ...
23 January 2015, by
Audrow Nash
Swarmbots: James McLurkin on why, how, and when we will see swarm robotics in practice
Link to audio file (27:29), or listen on iTunes
James McLurkin works with swarm robots at Rice University, and his unique work on robot communication has landed him on PBS’s “Nova,” in additi...
20 January 2015, by
Daniel Faggella
Talking Machines: Machine learning and magical thinking, with Ilya Sutskever
Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
15 January 2015, by
Talking Machines
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173
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RoboThespian, with Will Jackson
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In today’s podcast, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Will Jackson from Engineered Arts Limited about his team’s work making robot actors....
10 January 2015, by
Ron Vanderkley
Introducing Talking Machines: Your window into the world of machine learning
Robohub is excited to bring you our newest series - the Talking Machines podcast. Hosted by Katherine Gorman and Ryan Adams, Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Yo...
01 January 2015, by
Talking Machines
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172
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3D SLAM, with John Leonard
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Professor John Leonard from MIT about his research on dense, object-based 3D Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM)....
27 December 2014, by
Audrow Nash
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171
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Robotics in Theatre, Film, and Television, with Grant Imahara and Richard McKenna
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In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Mythbusters‘ Grant Imahara, and Richard McKenna from The Creature Technology Company about robotics in the film, television and th...
13 December 2014, by
Ron Vanderkley
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170
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Mobility Transformation Facility, with Edwin Olson
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In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Edwin Olson, an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, about the University’s 32-acre testing environment for auton...
28 November 2014, by
Audrow Nash
The CORAL group: Interview with Joydeep Biswas and Brian Coltin
Our newest video interview features PhD student Joydeep Biswas, who works with Dr. Manuela Veloso’s CORAL research group, and scientist Brian Coltin, who is at NASA's Ames Intelligent Research g...
26 November 2014, by
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS)
