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Talking Machines: Remembering David MacKay
Recently Professor David MacKay passed away. We’ll spend this episode talking about his extensive body of work and its impacts. We’ll also talk with Philipp Hennig, a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, who trained in Professor MacKay’s group (with Ryan).
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- Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning, with Hanna Wallach
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- Talking Machines: Real human actions and Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Jenn Wortman Vaughan
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