Microsoft Research Podcast

Collaborators: Gov4git with Petar Maymounkov and Kasia Sitkiewicz

Collaboration is key to bringing ideas from lab to life. In the first episode of the #MSRPodcast series “Collaborators,” learn how GitHub’s Kasia Sitkiewicz and Protocol Labs’ Petar Maymounkov are teaming up to make open-source collaborative work better.
  1. GitHub Product Manager Kasia Sitkiewicz and Protocol Labs Research Scientist Petar Maymounkov discuss their collaboration on Gov4git on the Microsoft Research Podcast

    Collaborators: Gov4git with Petar Maymounkov and Kasia Sitkiewicz 

    Episode 139 |

    Collaboration is key to bringing ideas from lab to life. In the first episode of the #MSRPodcast series “Collaborators,” learn how GitHub’s Kasia Sitkiewicz and Protocol Labs’ Petar Maymounkov are teaming up to make open-source collaborative work better.

  2. black and white photo of Ece Kamar, Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research, next to the Microsoft Research Podcast "R" logo

    AI Frontiers: Models and Systems with Ece Kamar 

    Episode 138 |

    The third episode of AI Frontiers features Ece Kamar, deputy lab director at Microsoft Research Redmond. Kamar draws on decades of experience in AI research and an opportunity she and Microsoft colleagues had to evaluate and experiment with GPT-4 prior to its release in discussing…

  3. Peter Lee wearing glasses and smiling at the camera with the Microsoft Research Podcast logo to the left

    AI Frontiers: AI for health and the future of research with Peter Lee 

    Episode 137 |

    The second episode of AI Frontiers features Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research. Lee was among a group within Microsoft to have early access to GPT-4 for evaluation and experimentation. Here, he applies his philosophy of tackling research from what will be inevitably true at…

  4. podcast: Sebastien Bubeck

    AI Frontiers: The Physics of AI with Sébastien Bubeck 

    Episode 136 |

    The first episode of the new Microsoft Research Podcast series, AI Frontiers, features Sébastien Bubeck, who leads the Machine Learning Foundations group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. He and his collaborators conducted an extensive evaluation of GPT-4 while it was in development, and have published…

  5. Headshots of podcast guests Tawanna Dillahunt, Zachary Rowe, Joanna Velazquez, and host Mary Gray in a two-by-two grid and set against a dark purple background. Each headshot is contained within a hexagon shape.

    Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins episode 2 with Dr. Tawanna Dillahunt, Zachary Rowe, and Joanna Velazquez 

    Episode 134 |

    In “Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins,” Senior Principal Researcher Mary L. Gray explores how technology and community intertwine and the role technology can play in supporting community-driven innovation and community-based organizations. Dr. Gray and her team are working to bring computer science,…

  6. Portraits of Microsoft researchers Sid Suri and Jaime Teevan photographed in black and white. Both smile and look forward. Teevan, on the right, is holding a cell phone in the lower right of the frame.

    New Future of Work: How remote and hybrid work will shape workplaces and society with Jaime Teevan and Siddharth Suri 

    Episode 132 |

    In this episode of The New Future of Work series, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Senior Principal Researcher Siddharth Suri explore the many ways people were impacted by work shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about how race, gender, income, and other factors are indicative of how people have fared and what this means…