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Microsoft Research PodcastIdeas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika BaliThe new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she had to work with low-resource languages. Learn more:The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World | Publication, July 2020Project VeLLM | Project pageKahani: Visual Storytelling | Project pageKahani: Visual Storytelling through Culturally Nuanced Images | Microsoft Research Forum | Episode 1, January 2024Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content | Microsoft Research blog, October 2023Digital Labor: Pr...2024-04-1147 min
Microsoft Threat Intelligence PodcastIran’s Influence OperationsOn this week's episode of The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast, Sherrod DeGrippo is joined by Bryan Prior and Nirit Hinkis from the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center. Sherrod, Bryan, and Nirit discuss Iranian influence operations, distinguishing between influence and information operations. The conversation covers examples of cyber-enabled influence operations, focusing on Iran's actions related to the 2020 U.S. presidential elections and the Israel-Hamas war. The discussion covers tactics Iranian actors use, such as impersonation, recruiting locals, and leveraging email and text messages for amplification. The podcast brings context to the intricacies of Iranian cyber activities, their collaborative efforts, propaganda consumption...2024-02-1443 min
Microsoft Research PodcastWhat’s Your Story: Ivan TashevPartner Software Architect Ivan Tashev talks about applying his expertise in audio signal processing to the design and study of audio components for Microsoft products such as Kinect and shares how a focus on what he can control has fueled professional success.Learn more:Ivan Tashev at Microsoft ResearchDistributed Meetings: A Meeting Capture and Broadcasting System | Publication, December 2002Research Collection: The Unseen History of Audio and Acoustics Research at Microsoft | Microsoft Research blog, August 2020 2024-02-0129 min
KUOW NewsroomCan Microsoft become an AI leader and maintain its ambitious goals to cut carbon emissions?In January 2020, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced one of the most ambitious plans to decarbonize of any tech company. By 2030, Microsoft would be carbon negative, removing more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits. By 2050, Microsoft would remove all of the carbon it has ever emitted since the company’s founding in 1975.2023-12-2804 min
Beyond the Blue BadgeIntentional service with Steve Guggenheimer The path to board service starts with planning, networking When Steve Guggenheimer left Microsoft as a corporate vice president in 2020 after a 27-year career, he had already been thinking about what he wanted his next career milestone to be — board service. He started laying the groundwork for that while still at the company, and now he is a non-executive director for HSBC Holdings, Forrit, Leupold & Stevens and the Software Acquisition Group. He’s also an advisor to 5G Innovation Labs and Tensility Venture Partners. In this episode of Beyond the Blue Badge, Steve talks with host Rich Kapl...2023-11-0142 min
Microsoft Research India PodcastHyWay: Enabling Mingling in the Hybrid World. With Dr. Venkat Padmanabahan and Ajay ManchepalliPodcast- HyWay: Enabling Mingling in the Hybrid WorldAjay Manchepalli: One thing we have learned is that, you know as they say, necessity is the mother of invention. This is a great example of that because it's not that we didn't have remote people before. And it's not that we didn't have technology to support something like this. But we have had this Black Swan moment with COVID, which required us to be not in the same physical location at all time and that accelerated the adoption of digital technologies. You can build all th...2023-08-2136 min
Microsoft Research PodcastCollaborators: Project InnerEye with Javier Alvarez and Raj JenaTransforming research ideas into meaningful impact is no small feat. It often requires the knowledge and experience of individuals from across disciplines and institutions. Collaborators, a new Microsoft Research Podcast series, explores the relationships—both expected and unexpected—behind the projects, products, and services being pursued and delivered by researchers at Microsoft and the diverse range of people they’re teaming up with.In this episode, Dr. Gretchen Huizinga talks with Microsoft Health Futures Senior Director Javier Alvarez and Dr. Raj Jena, a radiation oncologist at Addenbrooke’s hospital, part of Cambridge University Hospitals in the United Kingdom...2023-08-1739 min
Middle Aged GamingMicrosoft and AMD Winning This WeekThe latest episode of the Middle Aged Gaming podcast is now available! In this episode, the hosts discuss the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger finally closing, and the furor surrounding Starfield being exclusively optimized for AMD graphics cards.
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Middle Aged GamingMicrosoft Is Still Going To Get Activision Blizzard and The Indie Game OverbossThe Middle Aged Gaming podcast’s latest episode is episode 95 (season 2). In this episode, the hosts talk about the CMA in the UK blocking the Microsoft Activision Blizzard acquisition. They also talk about the latest game from the indie studio Goblinz. Their game Overboss looks amazing and it is perfect for board game and tile placement lovers.2023-05-0520 min
Climate PositiveClimate impact-driven corporate venture capital | Brandon Middaugh, MicrosoftWay back in early 2020, Microsoft made some of the most ambitious climate pledges of any corporation on the planet. It pledged to be carbon negative by 2030 and by 2050 to remove from the atmosphere all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by way of electricity consumption since its founding nearly 50 years ago. It also launched a $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund to accelerate the global development of technologies required to achieve these pledges.In this episode, Chad Reed chats with Brandon Middaugh – Senior Director of Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. From direct air capture to sustainable avia...2023-02-1733 minMicrosoft Research India PodcastHAMS- Using Smartphones to Make Roads Safer. With Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan and Dr. Akshay NambiEpisode 013 | June 14, 2022Road safety is a very serious public health issue across the world. Estimates put the traffic related death toll at approximately 1.35 million fatalities every year, and the World Health Organization ranks road injuries in the top 10 leading causes of death globally. This raises the question- can we do anything to improve road safety? In this podcast, I speak to Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director of Microsoft Research India and Akshay Nambi, Principal Researcher at MSR India. Venkat and Akshay talk about a research project called Harnessing Automobiles for Safety, or HAMS. The...2022-06-1326 min
Executive Leadership BriefingMicrosoft to boost pay in effort to retain employees - May 17, 2022U.S. employers now say they plan to allow an average of 2.3 days per week at home, up from 1.5 in the summer of 2020, as more ease up on return to office plans. In Manhattan, just 8% of office workers are back in the office five days a week. While executives have often led the charge to return to in-person work, research shows executives are less likely than their employees to work from the office five days a week. More than a third of workers have returned to the office full-time – the highest number since surveying began in June 2020.Mi...2022-05-1703 min
CISO Perspectives (public)Microsoft Azure around the Hash Table.Microsoft Azure adoption with cybersecurity first principle strategies.The cloud revolution is here. How well can we implement our first principle strategies within each environment? Do we need to embrace other security platforms to get it done? In this session, Rick and the Hash Table review Microsoft Azure through the lens of first principle thinking. They review how Azure supports, or doesn’t support, strategies of resilience, zero trust, intrusion kill chains, and risk assessments. The Hash Table gives their detailed technical experiences and strategies using Azure to support cybersecurity.Two members of the CyberWire’s Ha...2022-03-2121 min
La Wikly👾 ¿Por qué Activision, Microsoft?19 de enero | Nueva YorkHola, maricoper. Me han invitado a participar en una versión de El juego del calamar en Minecraft en la que participarán mogollón de streamers como Ibai, Rubius y Auronplay. No sé si seré el único atontao que no ha jugado al Minecraft en su vida, pero la cosa promete teniendo en cuenta que probablemente no dure más de dos segundos vivo.* Os espero en mi Twitch para animarme a eso de las 18:30 hora peninsular española.Bienvenido a La Wikly diaria, una columna de actualidad y dos ti...2022-01-1912 minMicrosoft Research India PodcastCollaborating to Develop a Low-cost Keratoconus Diagnostic Solution. With Dr. Kaushik Murali and Dr. Mohit JainEpisode 011 | January 18, 2022Keratoconus is a severe eye disease that affects the cornea, causing it to become weak and develop a conical bulge. Keratoconus, if undiagnosed and entreated, can lead to partial or complete blindness in people affected by it. However, the equipment needed to diagnose keratoconus is expensive and non-portable, which makes early detection of keratoconus inaccessible to large populations in low and middle income countries. This makes it a leading cause for partial or complete blindness amongst such populations. Doctors from Sankara Eye Hospital, Bengaluru and researchers from Microsoft Research India have been...2022-01-1727 min
Security UnlockedDecoding NOBELIUMIn December 2020, Microsoft began sharing information with the cybersecurity industry on a group of Russia-based hackers who gained access to multiple enterprises through vulnerable software code, stolen passwords, compromised on-premises servers, and minted SAML tokens. In this supply chain attack, hackers could access the SolarWinds code, slip malicious code into a piece of the software, and use the vendor’s legitimate software updates to spread malware to customer systems. Security Unlocked is excited to share with you, Decoding NOBELIUM. The docuseries gives you an inside look into the NOBELIUM incident, now viewed as one of the most advanced nation...2021-12-0849 min
Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann JohnsonThe Rising Ransomware RisksRinki Sethi; Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Twitter joins Ann Johnson for this conversation focused on the recent rise in cybercrime. Rinki was an Information Security Executive at IBM from 2018 to 2019 before joining Twitter in September 2020. She is responsible for protecting Twitter's information and technology assets and managing the company's continued product innovations in the security space. Rinki talks with Ann about the significant uptick in ransomware attacks, what she enjoys most about her career in cybersecurity, best practices when raising consumer awareness, and Twitter's approach to cybersecurity. In This Episode You Will Learn: ...2021-11-1622 minSecurity UnlockedLooking a Gift Card Horse in the MouthIs it just me, or do you also miss the good ole days of fraudulent activity? You remember the kind I’m talking about, the emails from princes around the world asking for just a couple hundred dollars to help them unfreeze or retrieve their massive fortune which they would share with you. Attacks have grown more nuanced, complex, and invasive since then, but because of the unbelievable talent at Microsoft, we’re constantly getting better at defending against it. On this episode of Security Unlocked, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla sit down with returning champion, Emily Hacker...2021-07-0730 min
Morning Saas#13 Adrien Chaltiel (Eldorado) - Trouver la bonne solution de financement pour sa solution Saas“Nous sommes toutes et tous, par la force des choses, utilisatrices et utilisateurs de beaucoup solutions Saas qui nous facilitent la vie. J’aime bien le côté universel de ce modèle.”
Entrepreneur depuis une quinzaine d’années, Adrien Chaltiel connaît sur le bout des doigts les hauts et les bas de l'entrepreneuriat : succès, échecs, ventes, rachats et levées de fonds, il a tout expérimenté.
Ce parcours l’a amené à constater un véritable paradoxe entre la démultiplication des sources de financement et la difficulté des entrepreneurs à financer leurs entreprises. Parallèl...2021-05-2642 minMorning Saas#10 Nicolas Fournier (JOB4) - Guerre des talents dans le SaaS, comment recruter ?“Le Saas, c’est un incontournable. Ça touche vraiment tous les secteurs d'activité. Je ne connais pas un acteur qui ne se positionne pas sur du Saas, à l’image de ce qu’était internet il y a 20 ans. Aujourd’hui l’évolution passe par l'aspect Saas et par les nouveaux modèles économiques qui peuvent en découler.”
C’est avant tout une passion et un savoir-faire dans le recrutement qui anime depuis plus de 10 ans Nicolas Fournier, fondateur et CEO de JOB4. Après une première expérience de conseil en ingénierie, Nicolas a souhaité se rapprocher du se...2021-04-2836 min
OutliersΚανίνης, Σταυρόπουλος, Softomotive: Η ελληνική εταιρεία που αγόρασε η MicrosoftΟ Αργύρης Κανίνης και ο Μάριος Σταυρόπουλος είναι ιδρυτές της Softomotive, της κορυφαίας εταιρείας στον τομέα της ρομποτικής αυτοματοποίησης διεργασιών (RPA). Μέσα στο 2020 η Microsoft ανακοίνωσε την εξαγορά της Softomotive έναντι ενός εντυπωσιακού ποσού. Σκοπός της εξαγοράς: να ενσωματώσει το λογισμικό ρομποτικής αυτοματοποίησης διεργασιών που αναπτύσσει η ελληνική εταιρεία στην αντίστοιχη εφαρμογή που προσφέρει σε χρήστες των Windows η Microsoft. Μέχρι τότε η Softomotive είχε ήδη χτίσει ένα δίκτυο 9.000 πελατών σε 80 χώρες ενώ το 2018 έλαβε χρηματοδότηση ύψους 25 εκατομμυρίων ευρώ από την Grafton Capital. Ο Αργύρης και ο Μάριος μίλησαν για την τελευταία εξέλιξη του λογισμικού που αναπτύσσουν για τη Microsoft αποκλειστικά στην Ελλάδα και για το όραμα τους να γίνει το RPA προσβάσιμο σε όλους.2021-04-2740 min
OutliersΚανίνης, Σταυρόπουλος, Softomotive: Η ελληνική εταιρεία που αγόρασε η MicrosoftΟ Αργύρης Κανίνης και ο Μάριος Σταυρόπουλος είναι ιδρυτές της Softomotive, της κορυφαίας εταιρείας στον τομέα της ρομποτικής αυτοματοποίησης διεργασιών (RPA). Μέσα στο 2020 η Microsoft ανακοίνωσε την εξαγορά της Softomotive έναντι ενός εντυπωσιακού ποσού. Σκοπός της εξαγοράς: να ενσωματώσει το λογισμικό ρομποτικής αυτοματοποίησης διεργασιών που αναπτύσσει η ελληνική εταιρεία στην αντίστοιχη εφαρμογή που προσφέρει σε χρήστες των Windows η Microsoft. Μέχρι τότε η Softomotive είχε ήδη χτίσει ένα δίκτυο 9.000 πελατών σε 80 χώρες ενώ το 2018 έλαβε χρηματοδότηση ύψους 25 εκατομμυρίων ευρώ από την Grafton Capital. Ο Αργύρης και ο Μάριος μίλησαν για την τελευταία εξέλιξη του λογισμικού που αναπτύσσουν για τη Microsoft αποκλειστικά στην Ελλάδα και για το όραμα τους να γίνει το RPA προσβάσιμο σε όλους.2021-04-2740 minMicrosoft Research India PodcastResearch @Microsoft Research India: interdisciplinary and impactful. With Dr. Sriram Rajamani
Episode 008 | April 20, 2021
Microsoft Research India is constantly exploring how research can enable new technologies that positively impact the lives of people while also opening new frontiers in computer science and technology itself. In this podcast we speak to Dr. Sriram Rajamani, distinguished scientist and Managing Director of the Microsoft Research India Lab. We talk about some of the projects in the lab that are making fundamental changes to the computing at Internet scale, computing at the edge and the role he thinks technology should play in the future to ensure digital fairness and inclusion. Sriram a...2021-04-1927 min
Bits: daily tech news bulletinMenulog will employ gig workers; Microsoft buys Nuance; ANU fights space junkFood delivery business Menulog is set to roll out an employee model for delivery drivers in Australia in a big move to change the poor labour practices of the gig economy. Contractor models have been found to pay less than minimum wages and created poor working conditions and job security. The employee program will begin in the Sydney CBD and the company will work with the Transport Workers Union to set its pay rules.After LG's recent decision to exit the smartphone market, the company has announced a 'three year pledge' to deliver...2021-04-1204 minBits: daily tech news bulletinMenulog will employ gig workers; Microsoft buys Nuance; ANU fights space junkFood delivery business Menulog is set to roll out an employee model for delivery drivers in Australia in a big move to change the poor labour practices of the gig economy. Contractor models have been found to pay less than minimum wages and created poor working conditions and job security. The employee program will begin in the Sydney CBD and the company will work with the Transport Workers Union to set its pay rules.After LG's recent decision to exit the smartphone market, the company has announced a 'three year pledge...2021-04-1204 min
Windows Insider PodcastGoodbye, 2020. Hello, 2021!2020 has come and gone, and 2021 marks the beginning of a new chapter with stories yet to be written. In this episode, we reminisce as we look back across the past year, the changes it brought, and take a look forward to 2021 and what the team expects next. Jason talks with the Windows Insider team, including program lead Amanda Langowski, Brandon LeBlanc, Vivek Elangovan, and Eddie Leonard. Click here for transcript of this episode. Windows Insider Program insider.windows.com Windows Community community.windows.com Windows Insider Twitter | Instagram Listen and sub...2021-01-0647 min
The Intrazone by Microsoft 365SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop December 2020December 2020 brought many new offerings: SharePoint site header updates, send pages to Yammer, “SharePoint Success” site template, add Microsoft Teams to SharePoint team sites update (aka, Teamify), Microsoft Lists adoption center, Microsoft Graph Toolkit v2.0, and more. We share an exclusive chat with Tejas Mehta, principal program manager on the SharePoint team who owns content services integration work with Microsoft Teams. And Mark recaps The Intrazone's top episodes of 2020. Click here for this episode's corresponding blog post. Resource and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | Twitter | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman | Twitter [host...2020-12-3043 min
Middle Aged GamingAfter The Show: 2021 PredictionsHello middle age gamers and welcome to the last show of 2020. Boy are we glad this year is done and we are so looking forward to 2021. This episode was recorded on December 29th 2020. Today on “After The Show” we talk about three predictions each of us have for the coming year. Adam talks about the increasing adoption of cloud gaming; Microsoft’s continuing company purchase and the awesome Dual Sense 5. Crian talks about the increasing influence of VR, FarCry 6 probably not changing a lot and Tech/Gaming shortages. As always if you like what we do, please follow our YouTube...2020-12-2955 minMicrosoft Research India PodcastHelping young students build a career in research through the MSR India Research Fellow program. With Shruti Rijhwani and Dr. Vivek Seshadri
Episode 007 | December 22, 2020
One of Microsoft Research India’s goals is to help strengthen the research ecosystem and encourage young students to look at research as a career. But it is not always easy for students to understand what research is all about and how to figure out if research is the right career for them. The Research Fellow program at Microsoft Research India enables bright young students to work on real-world research problems with top notch researchers across the research lifecycle, including ideation, implementation, evaluation, and deployment. Many of the students who have been pa...2020-12-2122 min
BrakeSec Education Podcast2020-046-solarwinds-fireeye-breaches-GE-medical-device-issues-and-2021_predictionsEnd of year podcast Blumeria sponsorship NEWS: IT company SolarWinds says it may have been hit in 'highly sophisticated' hack | Reuters FireEye hacked: US cybersecurity firm FireEye hit by 'state-sponsored' attack - BBC News https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/ - 16 december 2020 Microsoft flexing muscle to shutdown c2: Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response to breach - GeekWire Little-known SolarWinds gets scrutiny over hack, stock sales (apnews.com...2020-12-1752 min
Climate ConfidentMicrosoft's incredibly ambitious climate emissions initiative - a chat with Lucas JoppaSend me a messageMicrosoft has a stellar track record when it comes to climate emissions. Microsoft rolled out an internal price on carbon in 2012 - something most major companies today have yet to do. And in January 2020 Microsoft announced its plan to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the atmosphere all the carbon Microsoft has been responsible for emitting since it began operations in 1975. Given these audacious commitments, and the stated aim of this podcast to share successful climate emissions strategies and stories, I reached out to Microsoft to...2020-12-1644 min