Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow do you build a better robot? By understanding people.
Whether it’s autonomous vehicles or assistive technology in healthcare that can do things like help the elderly do core tasks like feeding themselves…
4 years, 1 month ago
James Zou: Trust is AI’s most critical contribution to health care
Among the many areas James Zou might have chosen to apply his considerable knowledge of artificial intelligence, he opted for health care. It was the…
4 years, 2 months ago
Johan Ugander: How misinformation spreads faster than truth
Stanford professor Johan Ugander is an expert in making sense of messy data. Lately he’s been working to tell fact from fiction online, as news stori…
4 years, 2 months ago
Martin Fischer: AI and virtual reality can help society build better
For a profession that has existed essentially since the beginning of human civilization, few people fully appreciate the importance of construction i…
4 years, 2 months ago
Gill Bejerano: How cryptogenomics advances both science and privacy
Much of what the world knows about genetic diseases is learned by comparing the DNA of people with a shared disease against the DNA of otherwise heal…
4 years, 2 months ago
Cynthia Lee: How to teach computer science
As the field of computer science has evolved over the last half century, so too has the way in which computer science is taught and to whom it is tau…
4 years, 3 months ago
Chelsea Finn: How to make artificial intelligence more meta
In one of computer science’s more meta moments, professor Chelsea Finn created an AI algorithm to evaluate the coding projects of her students. The A…
4 years, 4 months ago
Kayvon Fatahalian: How the pandemic changed the virtual world
For experts in digital graphics and visual perception, like computer scientist Kayvon Fatahalian, the recent pandemic has been a call to arms. Fataha…
4 years, 5 months ago
Kuang Xu: How to make (and keep) genetic data private
One underappreciated fact about the explosion in genetic databases, like consumer sites that provide information about ancestry and health, is that t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Eric Appel: Gels are changing the face of engineering ... and medicine
Readers of Eric Appel’s academic profile will note appointments in materials science, bioengineering and pediatrics, as well as fellowship appointmen…
4 years, 6 months ago