Building 32 - a Podcast from MIT CSAIL Alliances

MIT Professor Daniel Jackson, associate director of CSAIL and the author of The Essence of Software, argues that if your design is flawed, so is your product. In this podcast, Prof. Jackson shares some cases where software design makes or breaks big companies and what can be done to improve software design in the future. Find out more here: cap.csail.mit.edu. If you would like to learn more about...

This week on the CSAIL Alliances Podcast we’re joined by George Westerman, a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Founder of the Global Opportunity Initiative. Westerman discusses the future of AI, the opportunities it presents, as well as some potential pitfalls. Find out more about CSAIL Alliances, as well as a full transcript of this podcast at https://cap.csail.mit.edu/

Today’s generative AI programs know how to write, compose music, and even create works of art. But it learned to do so by training on data made by human creators without asking their permission. As independent artists and giant media companies bring their cases to court, the question is: will all this fundamentally change the human-AI relationship? This week’s podcast is a special crossover episod...

MIT CSAIL Professors Srini Devadas and Vinod Vaikuntanathan join the CSAIL Alliances Podcast for a conversation about cybersecurity, addressing topics from federated protocols, the importance of data-driven approaches, and how quantum computing could change the landscape. Find out more about Professor Devadas, Professor Vaikuntanathan and CSAIL Alliances here: A transcript of this podcast is also...

On this episode of the CSAIL Alliances Podcast, hear from industry experts Andy Ellis (former Chief Security Officer at Akamai) and Amy Herzog (Chief Information Security Officer, Ads & Devices at Amazon) about what companies should be focused on in a changing security landscape. Ellis and Herzog discuss the role of AI, the future of security, and the importance of maintaining vigilance with exist...

CSAIL Director Professor Daniela Rus shares insights from her new book "The Heart and the Chip." Professor Rus discusses the past, present and future of how robots shape our lives. For more information on Professor Rus' new book, and to find a full transcript of this podcast please visit cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor Hal Abelson has a long history of looking at the importance of Computer Science education and helping shape its future. Listen as he joins Kara Miller in conversation to discuss how AI will shape education moving forward. CORRECTION: Please note, the website in the outro of the podcast should be cap.csail.mit.edu. A full transcript of this podcast will be available at cap.csail.mit...

CSAIL's Dr. Neil Thompson joins Kara Miller for a conversation on how AI will affect the future of business. Dr. Thompson also shares insights into the race for computing power and how that competition is shaping the landscape of industry. Find more about Dr. Neil Thompson and his research, as well as a transcript of this podcast at http://cap.csail.mit.edu/podcasts/ais-impact-future-work-neil-tho...

MIT Professor Thomas Malone sits down with Kara Miller for a discussion about the intersections of business and computer science. Find a full transcript of this podcast and more at cap.csail.mit.edu

MIT Professor Charles E. Leiserson discusses business, education, optimization and the end of Moore's Law with Kara Miller. Find a full transcript of this podcast at cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor and Turing Award winner Mike Stonebraker sits down with Kara Miller for a conversation about research and business. They're joined by Gant Redmon, CEO of Hopara, an Agile Digital Twin company that was built at MIT CSAIL. A full transcript of this podcast can be found at cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor Yoon Kim joins Kara Miller for a conversation about the past, present and future of Large Language Models. A full transcript of this podcast can be found at cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor Saman Amarasinghe discusses how Large Language Models like Chat GPT, will alter the future of programming. Professor Amarasinghe also examines how structured data fits into the equation. A transcript of this podcast can be found here: cap.csail.mit.edu

Vivienne Sze is an associate professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She's a coauthor of Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks. A full transcript will be available at cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor Armando Solar-Lezama shares his insights on Program Synthesis. A full transcript of this podcast is available at cap.csail.mit.edu

Hear from CSAIL Professor Christina Delimitrou as she outlines advances being made in the cloud computing space. A full transcript of this podcast will be available at cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor Henry Corrigan-Gibbs shares insights into his research that builds computer systems using ideas from cryptography, computer security, and computer systems. A transcript of this podcast can be found at cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor Sam Hopkins gives an overview of the landscape of high dimensional statistics, and shares some of the research that he and his colleagues at CSAIL are working on to shape it. Professor Hopkins would like to note one correction, when he refers to the "planted clique" problem, it should be "max clique in a random graph". A full transcript of this podcast is available at cap.csail.mit...

Professor Mengjia Yan shares insights into her cybersecurity research. A full transcript of this podcast will be available at cap.csail.mit.edu

Cambridge based visual artist and MIT alumni Karl Sims shares his insights on art, science and business.

CSAIL Professor Arvind details his work in near-storage computing. He explains how he's using flash storage instead of massive amounts of DRAM for big data problems. A transcript of this podcast will be available at cap.csail.mit.edu

MIT Professors Peter Shor and Will Oliver join for a conversation on the current state and future possibilities of quantum computing. A transcription for this podcast can be found at cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor Neil Thompson explains how the end of Moore's Law will affect the computing stack, and what industry leaders should consider when facing this problem. Accessible captions can be found at cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor Gerald Jay Sussman discusses the importance of a breadth of research, lessons academia and industry can learn from each other, and how to be a flexible programmer. Accessible captions can be found at cap.csail.mit.edu

CSAIL Professor John Guttag discusses the process of incorporating AI into healthcare. Guttag also talks about the process of bringing an idea out of the lab and into a full-fledged business.