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Talking Machines: Real human actions and Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Jenn Wortman Vaughan


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28 January 2016



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In episode one of season two, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Women in Machine Learning (WiML) with its co-founder — and our guest host for this episode — Hanna Wallach of Microsoft Research. We get a glimpse of how the 2015 event went, including how its evolved over ten years with Hanna and Jenn Wortman Vaughanwho also founded the event. Plus, we talk with Jenn about her work at Microsoft Research.


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