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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Read more about Jacob Andreas at: Alliances Researcher Spotlight.