CSAIL Alliances Podcasts

Professor Manolis Kellis of MIT CSAIL and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard discusses the effects COVID-19 has had on his computational biology research. Kellis believes that by being aware of genetic predispositions we can better prepare to confront each person’s unique challenges. Access the transcript for this podcast at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2021-10/Manolis%20Kellis%20CAP%20Podcast%20Export%203.pdf

CSAIL's Tim Kraska is developing new autoML approaches to make analytics more accessible to a broader range of users and optimize database architecture systems for companies. Access the transcript for the podcast at: http://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2021-08/Tim%20Kraska%20podcast.pdf.

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Professor and Cambridge Mobile Telematics founder Sam Madden discusses how far technology can be pushed into other application domains. His research explores reinforcement learning and repurposing shelf machine learning components to advance systems and solve current challenges. Access the transcript for the podcast at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2021-07/Sam%20Madden%20Podcast_0.pdf.

Professor Daniel Jackson of MIT CSAIL is working on a number of projects to make software more usable, reliable, and secure. By rethinking the fundamentals of software design, he says that developers can ultimately give more flexibility to users in the structure and organization of software, as well as meet more user needs. Learn more about Professor Jackson at: https://bit.ly/3paRcsm Access the transcript for the podcast at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/research-pdfs/Daniel%20Jackson%20Podcast.pdf

Professor Jacob Andreas of MIT CSAIL is trying to close the gap between current machine learning techniques and human abilities to learn language and learn from language about the rest of the world. Learn more about Prof. Andreas at: https://bit.ly/3vECQ5o. Access the transcript for the podcast at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/research-pdfs/Edit%20II%20.pdf.

As one of the founding directors of the Free Software Foundation, CSAIL's Prof. Hal Abelson believes that free software empowers everyone to maintain the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share software, as well as see everything the software is doing. Learn more about Prof. Abelson at: https://bit.ly/3fPIEEq. Access the transcript for the podcast at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/research-pdfs/ResearcherSpotlight_HalAbelson_02_24_2021.pdf

Cryptography, the study of finding secure methods of communication, may seem to many of us as, well, cryptic. But in spite of its more theoretical and foundational nature in computing, cryptography is more important now than ever in securing private communication and other types of information that are no longer stored on our own private machines. Professor Yael Kalai of MIT CSAIL and Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England is a cryptographer and theoretical computer scientist working on state-of-the-art ways of securing computation. Learn more about Prof. Kalai's at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/engage/spotlights/yael-kalai?utm_source=souncloud&utm_medium=social%20media&utm_campaign=yael_kalai_spotlight Access the transcript for the podcast at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/research-pdfs/Video%20Edit%20II%20.pdf

Our new reality is increasingly one of virtuality. D. Fox Harrell, Ph.D., studies the relationship between computing and imagination for emerging forms of digital media, as well as their social and ethical impact. From videogames that better support diverse user groups to a personalized Universal Hip Hop Museum experience, his work falls into both the design and analysis of virtual technologies. Prof. Harrell and his research group in MIT CSAIL build analytical tools using AI identifying trends and biases and developing new design principles we can apply to our work in industry and academia. Learn more about Prof. Harrell's virtuality research at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/engage/spotlights/d-fox-harrell-0?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social%20media&utm_campaign=d_fox_harrell_spotlight Access the transcript for the podcast at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/research-pdfs/Fox%20Harrell%20Spotlight%20transcript.pdf

If we want robots to assist us with everyday tasks, they’ll need to be able to manipulate objects on a human level. To do that, they need good fingers. Professor Ted Adelson of MIT CSAIL is developing robotic fingers that are sensitive and soft like human fingers, enabling robots to use their hands intelligently to accomplish chosen tasks. Read more about Ted Adelson at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/engage/spotlights/ted-adelson?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social%20media&utm_campaign=spotlight_ted_adelson Access the transcript for the podcast at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/research-pdfs/CSAIL%20Alliances%20Researcher%20Spotlight-%20Ted%20Adleson.pdf

“If we want to keep the Moore’s Law momentum going in computing, we have to do something different,” says CSAIL Professor Saman Amarasinghe, whose work with compilers is making them faster, more reliable, and more efficient. He discusses using new technologies like machine learning and modern algorithms and solvers to optimize code and get the performance needed to keep up with the rapid changes happening in industry. For more information, visit: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/engage/spotlights/saman-amarasinghe?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=social%20media&utm_campaign=saman_amarasinghe_spotlight Access the transcript for the podcast at: https://cap.csail.mit.edu/sites/default/files/research-pdfs/Moore%27s%20Law%20Momentum%20with%20CSAIL%27s%20Saman%20Amarasinghe%20Transcript%20.pdf