Shows
Computing UpBenjamin J. Kuipers: On Space and Time and GOFAIBen Kuipers, emeritus professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), joins Michael and Dave in a nerdly yet accessible conversation on topics ranging from Good Old-Fashioned AI, to how we understand space and time, to ethics and trust in society, to teaching Dave how to LISP properly in the 1970s. [Episode cover based on image used courtesy of Benjamin J. Kuipers]
2025-11-021h 13
Computing UpEfficiency, Resilience, & Robustness With Moshe VardiMoshe Vardi (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, and a multi-award-winning force in theoretical computer science, joins Michael and Dave in a wide-ranging conversation about robustness and resilience in computer science, engineering, and society at large. Moshe's talk "Lessons from Texas, COVID-19, and the 737 Max" is online (🔗, 🔗). [Cover based on an image used by permission of Moshe Vardi] Episode Note: This conversation was recorded in August 2024 but is only becoming available now. Computing Up regrets and apologizes for the extended delay!
2025-07-261h 04
Computing UpComputing Then And Now with Joy Lisi RankinDr. Joy Lisi Rankin (🔗, 🔗, 🔗, 🔗), an author, historian, and academic, joins Michael and Dave in a fast conversation about the history of computing and its systemic biases from the '60s to the techbros of today, and much more. [Cover based on an image used by permission of Joy Rankin] Note: This conversation was recorded in April 2024 but is only becoming available now. Computing Up regrets and apologizes for the extended delay!
2025-04-2758 min
We Own This TownRadio Power with WNXP’s Jason Moon Wilkins & Emily Young
Every few years there will be an inevitable outcry that “Radio is dead.” Fortunately, the team at Nashville’s WNXP 91.1 FM didn’t get the memo. The public radio station launched in late 2020; not exactly an ideal time for anything but the station has flourished in the years since.
Devalued is honored to host the station’s Program Director and Brand Manager Jason Moon Wilkins and Events Director (and lifelong Nashvillian) Emily Young. The duo provide real insights about how radio fits into the modern music industry, how they consciously work to lift the community and how artists ca...
2025-01-281h 11We Own This TownRadio Power with WNXP’s Jason Moon Wilkins & Emily Young
Every few years there will be an inevitable outcry that “Radio is dead.” Fortunately, the team at Nashville’s WNXP 91.1 FM didn’t get the memo. The public radio station launched in late 2020; not exactly an ideal time for anything but the station has flourished in the years since.
Devalued is honored to host the station’s Program Director and Brand Manager Jason Moon Wilkins and Events Director (and lifelong Nashvillian) Emily Young. The duo provide real insights about how radio fits into the modern music industry, how they consciously work to lift the community and how artists ca...
2025-01-281h 11
Growth League PodcastFranchise Marketing Playbook | Growth League Podcast ft. Michael Ackley, at Ascent Hospitality ManagementDiscover why Michael believes franchising is still a powerful vehicle for entrepreneurship and personal legacy. Michael also offers insights into team dynamics, the role of leadership, and how marketing and franchise sales intertwine. Whether you're curious about marketing strategies, leadership, or franchising, this conversation delivers actionable takeaways for business growth.
2024-12-0426 min
Computing UpCollecting Cognition with Steve SlomanCognitive scientist and psychologist Professor Steve Sloman of Brown University (🔗, 🔗, 🔗) joins Michael and Dave in a fun romp through connectionism, collective cognition, the illusion of understanding, and much more. Also, Dave illustrates his illusion of understanding of a bicycle in a true back of the envelope sketch -- [Episode cover based on image used courtesy of Steven Sloman]
2024-12-0148 min
Computing UpManon Revel: Is Democracy a Comma in History?Manon Revel (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), an Employee Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, joins Michael and Dave for a conversation about the past, present, and future of democracy, and ways to understand it in both computational and practical terms. [Thumbnail based on image provided courtesy of Manon Revel]
2024-06-231h 01
Balance of PowerTikTok, Ukraine Aid Bill Head to the SenateWatch Joe and Kailey LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from the White House and Capitol Hill, including conversations with influential lawmakers and key figures in politics and policy. On this edition, Joe and Kailey speak with: Bloomberg News Senior Editor for Technology and Strategic Industries Michael Shepard about what the TikTok legislation that passed in the House of Representatives would mean for the company. Former US Ambassador to Morocco and President of the Coalition for a...
2024-04-2255 min
Computing UpMartha White: Sparse is RichMartha White, associate professor of Computing Science at University of Alberta (🔗, 🔗) joins Michael and Dave in a conversation about AI, system prediction and control, the power of sparse representations, and many aspects of machine learning from new mathematical theory to the absolutely practical control of a real water treatment plant. [Thumbnail based on image used courtesy of Martha White]
2024-03-0256 minBalance of PowerBiden Responds to Special Counsel ReportWatch Joe and Kailey LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF.Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz deliver insight and analysis on the latest headlines from the White House and Capitol Hill, including conversations with influential lawmakers and key figures in politics and policy. On this edition, Joe and Kailey speak with: Former Federal Prosecutor Michael Zeldin about the Special counsel report over President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents. Bloomberg White House Correspondent Josh Wingrove about Biden's response to reporters last night. Former US Ambassador to Poland Daniel Fried about Ukraine's...
2024-02-0941 min
Computing UpRich Sutton Brings ReinforcementsComputer scientist Rich Sutton, FRS (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), a quiet giant of machine learning, joins Michael and Dave in a sprawling conversation touching on reinforcement learning, a hopeful view of AI, the importance of ideas, and a host of other topics. [Thumbnail image used courtesy of Rich Sutton]
2024-01-0154 min
Computing UpThe Living Computation Theory of EverythingMichael interviews Dave about his recent video (YouTube) on a 'theory of everything'. The conversation begins with Michael praising Dave for finally doing some theory, and descends from there.
2023-11-281h 19
Computing UpOren Etzioni All OverOren Etzioni, founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at University of Washington, (🔗, 🔗, 🔗) joins Michael and Dave in a conversation that ranges all over, from AI hype and language models to alignment and existential risk and ethics and morality to information pollution and cryptography and politics and more. [Thumbnail based on image licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by Carissapod link]
2023-10-2253 min
Computing UpBeautiful Messiness with Jonathan FrankleJonathan Frankle, the new Chief Scientist - Neural Networks at Databricks (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), joins Michael and Dave in a fast conversation about topics ranging from AI risks and fairness to the problems of Computer Science education to the beautiful messiness of modern deep learning. [Thumbnail based on image courtesy of Jonathan Frankle]
2023-09-0258 min
Computing UpLove Hate WritingMichael and Dave talk about their love and hate relationships with writing, in the context of Dave's foray into publishing "Companionate Caring" and Michael's upcoming MIT Press book "Code to Joy". (This conversation is Part 2 of Where The Hell Have Michael & Dave Been?)
2023-07-021h 00
Computing UpBusy Busy / Let's Blame AIMichael and Dave catch up on where the hell they've been for the last couple months. (Mostly it's about busy, but Dave wants to blame everything on AI.)
2023-06-081h 03
Computing UpMichael Levin TAMEs LifeMichael Levin (🔗, 🔗, 🔗) is the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, and Distinguished Professor of Biology and Vannevar Bush Chair, among several other roles. In this episode he talks with Michael and Dave about computing writ very large indeed, with topics ranging from the meaning of life and agency to the problems of computability theory to the ways Levin's TAME model - Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere (🔗) - envisions a reality full of adaptive machines made of adaptive parts adapting to each other with everything they've got.
2023-03-051h 03
Computing UpThe Understandable Cynthia RudinCynthia Rudin, the Earl D. McLean, Jr. Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistical Science, Mathematics,and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), joins Michael and Dave for a fast and feisty conversation about how to make machines we can understand and control, with high-stakes examples like predicting power failures in New York City.
2023-02-1851 min
Computing UpVukosi Marivate: Deep Learning AfricaVukosi Marivate, Associate Professor of Computer Science and ABSA UP Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), joins Michael and Dave for a discussion of AI and machine learning research across Africa and around the world, and the challenges of centralization and efficiency versus diversification at the edge, and what each can learn from the other. [Title card based on image courtesy of Vukosi Marivate]
2023-01-0855 min
DevaluedDevalued Happy Hour with Lilly Hiatt and John P Strohm
You are invited to the first Devalued Happy Hour! On Thursday, December 15th at 5:30pm, get yourself to Vinyl Tap in East Nashville. Our wonderful hosts – Caroline Bowman & Michael Ackley – will be having a panel discussion around the topic “Does Anybody Make it Anymore?”
Guests Lilly Hiatt and John P Strohm will be joining in to talk about all things art, commerce and the collision of the two.
The event is sponsored by Good People Brewing! They’ve been kind enough to offer the first beer of the night free on them.
That’s Thursday...
2022-12-0901 min
Computing UpAndrew Davison's grand SLAMAndrew Davison is Professor of Robot Vision (🔗) at Imperial College London, and leads the Dyson Robotics Laboratory (🔗). Andrew invented the SLAM algorithm for robot mapping and navigation, and as this fast conversation makes clear, Dave and Michael are both big fans. [Thumbnail based on image courtesy of Andrew Davison]
2022-11-0549 min
Solex PodcastUsing the Scanner with CP & Autism, Frequencies for Pets, SEFIdot Clarifications, AO With a Family0:12 More to Learn About SEFIdots7:31 License Plates- Becky Coots-Kimbley & Annelise Werme8:35 Contest From Last Week- Ionex Gold 9:03 Top Enrollers October 10-169:52 The Key to Sharing AO Technology- Stay Simple 12:49 Layton Swan- Frequencies and a Fish13:43 Dr. Gursky and Amber Moseley- Jake the Dog23:08 How Has AO Scan Changed Dr. Gursky’s Practice?24:20 Naomi Fotovich- How I Use AO Scan to Help My Family25:29 Bill and Denise Ackley- The Miracle of Michael32:05 How Do You Use Your SEFIdots?33:37 Even Our Guests Have Bloopers!
2022-10-1934 min
Computing UpJohn Twelve HawksReclusive New York Times best-selling author John Twelve Hawks (🔗, 🔗 , 🔗) joins Michael and Dave to discuss problems of the world today and possibilities of the world tomorrow -- including AI risks, technological centralization, machines acting like people and people acting like machines, sex drives for sexbots, and the question of unintended consequences.
2022-10-0248 min
Computing UpPeter Norvig: AI Then And NowPeter Norvig 🔗, who literally (co)wrote the book 🔗 on Artificial Intelligence in the 1990s, talks with Michael and Dave about how the field has changed over the years, AI fairness and ethics, what is a symbol, and much more. [Cover image based on "Peter Norvig in 2019 at the Interval" 🔗 , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by Christopher Michel (Cmichel67 🔗 on Wikipedia)]
2022-09-0550 min
Computing UpMinds, Brains, & Morals with Oriel FeldmanHallOriel FeldmanHall, Brown University assistant professor and director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab (🔗, 🔗), joins Michael and Dave in a wide-ranging discussion starting with what reinforcement learning does and doesn't mean -- and she turns the tables to ask what computer scientists do and don't get wrong about mind and brain and learning in general.
2022-08-0153 min
"Faith, Family & Friends"Faith, Family & Friends interview with musician/songwriter/author Michael LaceyInterviews with people from all over the world and from all walks of life
because every story counts and everybody has a story!
2022-07-2751 min
Computing UpAgency IoT Loyalty1Michael and Dave tackle the big questions and settle two of them: Is Agency A Zero Sum Game? Why Do (Internet of) Things Suck? How Can We Turn Computation Away From Centralization? [Image of ancient Philips Hue Controller operating without internet access, used by permission of Dave the owner]
2022-07-011h 02
DevaluedIntroducing Devalued with Mike & Caroline
Welcome to Devalued with Mike and Caroline; the place where we talk about art and money and how creative people are navigating the ever changing landscape to make a living for their work.
We started this podcast because as two creative people, we wanted to have the conversation in public that every creative person is having in private: How do I make it? What is ‘making it?’ Why bother creating anything at all? What is my work worth? Should I let the rest of the world define the value of my work?
This series is all...
2022-06-3001 min
Computing UpJames Tompkin Does Visual Computing ResearchJames Tompkin 🔗, assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University 🔗, joins Michael and Dave to talk about visual computing research writ large, with topics ranging from the relevance of traditional computer graphics in the era of machine learning, to differentiable rendering and neural radiance fields, to DALL-E 2 and remixing Hitchcock's "Rear Window" at the Museum of the Moving Image.
2022-06-0449 min
Computing UpEllie Pavlick: As Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural LanguageEllie Pavlick, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University (🔗) and Research Scientist at Google AI (🔗), joins Michael and Dave in a quick discussion of the remarkable new large AI language models. Topics range from what is and isn't known about the models, and by them, to if or how scared should we be of them, to what 'traditional' sciences like linguistics bring to artificial intelligence research and engineering. [Image courtesy of Ellie Pavlick]
2022-05-0152 min
Bigfoot’s Wilderness PodcastMichael Montoya Shares His Stories & Talks Bigfoot ArtMichael Montoya Shares His Stories & Talks Bigfoot ArtI have the pleasure of speaking with Michael about our favorite cryptid. Michaelshares insight and tells a very compelling story from eyewitness Claudia Ackley.Check it out...
2022-04-191h 19
Computing UpAndrew Critch on AIAndrew Critch (🔗), a mathematician, AI researcher, organizer and activist (cofounder 🔗, researcher 🔗, cofounder 🔗), joins Michael and Dave for a fast-moving fifty minutes about existential risks (and opportunities) of AI and other technologies, the limits of intelligence, and the importance of structure at all scales and having a good spirit.
2022-04-0252 min
Haute Honnah presents: Empty TalkYASMIN AL-KHUDHAIRI INTERVIEWIn this episode, Michael and Imeldha interview Ackley Bridge star Yasmin Al-Khudhairi. They discuss Yasmin's journey as an actress, why practice makes perfect and diversity in casting. They also laugh... a lot.
2022-03-1800 min
Computing UpWhat is the Self Image?Dave tries to explain why he thinks the best way to understand people and other living things is via computation and programming languages, via codebases and code transmissions. Michael tries to help Dave sound slightly sane. [Image based on still frame from "We Are Coders"]
2022-03-0255 min
Computing UpBad Ideas and Dangerous Thoughts with Fiery CushmanFiery Cushman @fierycushman, professor of psychology at Harvard University 🔗, joins Michael and Dave in a wonderful conversation about morality seen both cognitively and computationally, with topics ranging from trolley problems and fake guns to the wisdom of the ancestors and the hubris of science to what makes moral thinking special. [Title image courtesy of Fiery Cushman]
2022-02-0753 min
Computing UpNeil Lawrence All Over the MapNeil Lawrence (home, @lawrennd), the DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge, joins Michael and Dave for a rollicking hour discussing everything from cybernetics to machine learning, from oil rigs to New Jersey shopping malls, from inconsistent scientific reviewing to gods and robots and much more. Talking Machines podcast [Image courtesy of Neil Lawrence]
2022-01-011h 01
Computing UpCarla Brodley: From Machine Learning to Inclusive ComputingCarla Brodley, professor and Dean of Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University (link), talks to Michael and Dave about applying Machine Learning to real problems from computer security to medicine, and how to move the needle for diversity, equity, access, and belonging in Computer Science education. [Title image courtesy of Carla Brodley]
2021-12-0448 min
Computing UpKaren Levy Keeps On TruckingKaren Levy, assistant professor in Information Science at Cornell University, joins Michael and Dave in a conversation ranging from AI, law, and smart contracts to CB radio, Road Dog Trucking, and Santa's narcs.
2021-11-0155 min
Computing UpAnita Nikolich: From Three Letter Agency to AI Security Anita Nikolich, Director of Research and Technology Innovation at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences (webpage), joins Michael and Dave in a conversation ranging over decades and disciplines, from computer network security and the DEFCON hacker conferences to creating games for teaching about mis- and dis-information. [Title image courtesy of Anita Nikolich]
2021-10-0251 min
Computing UpMore than Games with Michael BowlingMichael Bowling, professor of Computer Science at the University of Alberta, talks with Michael and Dave about robots playing robots at soccer, and how a computer program beat professional poker players at heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em, and what it all means. [Image courtesy of Michael Bowling]
2021-09-071h 15
Computing UpThe Embodied George KonidarisMichael and Dave talk to George Konidaris, assistant professor and director of the Intelligent Robot Lab at Brown University, about building generally intelligent robots, or anyway trying, and the importance of both embodiment and abstraction in artificial intelligence. [Title image courtesy of George Konidaris]
2021-07-0659 min
Computing UpMike Lesk: Data Scientist OGRutgers Professor Michael Lesk talks to Michael and Dave about everything from computing and information retrieval in the 1960s, to railroad signaling and recognizing giraffes, to the difference between astronomers and computer scientists, to Colonial Pipeline and the real AI challenge. [Title image courtesy of Mike Lesk]
2021-06-0556 min
Computing UpClosing Triangles with Tina Eliassi-RadProfessor Tina Eliassi-Rad of Northeastern's Network Science Institute talks with Michael and Dave about topics ranging from graph structures and machine learning to AI ethics and the nature of democracy. [Title image courtesy of Tina Eliassi-Rad]
2021-05-0153 min
Computing UpGlum About TechDave is feeling glum about technology -- and by extension about the impacts of computer science, the exploitation of science in general, and the hope for sustainability and truth in society. Michael helps sort it all out.
2021-03-0246 min
Computing UpComputing Penguins with Heather LynchMichael and Dave talk to Heather J. Lynch, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, about awards and leaving physics, about saving penguins and the planet, and more.
2021-02-0151 min
Computing UpHeather LaneHeather Lane, machine learning researcher and senior architect at athenahealth, joins Dave and Michael in a talk of many things, of the thermodynamics of life, of the US healthcare industry and life after academia, of coming out as transgender.
2021-01-0256 min
Computing UpFil Menczer: From Artificial Life To Social BotsFil Menczer, professor and director of the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University, joined Michael and Dave on the day after the 2020 USA presidential election. Fil revealed how his 1990s Artificial Life research set the stage for his current work, focusing not just on the facts of disinformation and hoaxes and conspiracy theories and social bots, but also how to identify and fight them. [Title image based on photograph licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 by Tracey Theriault]
2020-12-011h 01
Computing UpJeff Bigham: Humanizing AIJeff Bigham, an Associate Professor at Carnegie-Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, joins Michael and Dave in a wide-ranging discussion of human-computer interactions, AI threats and opportunities, and systems and organizations made of both computers and humans. [Episode transcript (PDF)] [Cover photo courtesy of Jeff Bigham]
2020-11-0150 min
Computing UpThe Reward Function and the Structure of MeaningMichael and Dave discuss the meaning of the reward function, and its consequences for AI and human society.
2020-10-0642 min
Central Michigan Life PodcastsPast Deadline: Why executive searches?This time on Past Deadline, host Ben Ackley talks to Associate Editor Michael Livingston about the who, what, why and how of executive searches.
2020-10-0212 min
Computing UpEntering HyperspaceDave tries to explain his "We are coders" approach to cognition to Michael, as part of developing the second lecture in the "Introduction to Classical Hyperspace" series. First lecture
2020-09-0644 min
Computing UpChanneling Hari Seldon for Safer and Fairer AIComputer scientists Emma Brunskill of Stanford and Phil Thomas of UMass Amherst join Michael and Dave in a four-way discussion of safety and fairness in AI and machine learning. [The primary paper discussed, Preventing undesirable behavior of intelligent machines, is by Philip S. Thomas, Bruno Castro da Silva, Andrew G. Barto, Stephen Giguere, Yuriy Brun, and Emma Brunskill, and can be accessed for free via paper in Science ]
2020-08-011h 00
Computing UpJenna Burrell Has Some ThoughtsMichael and Dave talk with UC Berkeley sociologist Jenna Burrell about topics ranging from algorithmic fairness and transparency, to anthropology and epistemology, to viral tweets and why small is beautiful. [Title image courtesy of Jenna Burrell]
2020-07-0654 min
2020-06-0744 min
Computing UpCatching up with Peter WinklerMichael and Dave talk with mathematician, computer scientist, and puzzle maker Peter Winkler, about topics ranging from randomness to free will, and combinatorics to Sleeping Beauty, and John Horton Conway to Erdős number 1. And don't miss the bonus puzzle! Conway's (first) Princeton Lecture [Title photo courtesy of Peter Winkler]
2020-05-0341 min
Computing UpArtificial DeathMichael and Dave talk about pandemic models and simulation journalism, programming languages, and what people really want. Washington Post's simulator is here
2020-04-0138 min
Computing UpThe Multilevel Michael FrankMichael and Dave talk to Brown University neuroscientist Michael J Frank about topics from brains and minds, to engineering and machine learning, to dopamine and Parkinson's disease and New Age woo.
2020-03-0155 min
Computing UpMelanie Moses Scales UpComputer scientist and biologist Melanie Moses joins Michael and Dave in a conversation ranging from biology nerds vs computing nerds to the future of justice in the United States, with a whole lot of scaling along the way.
2020-02-0154 min
Computing UpMichael Carbin Computes the Winning Ticket & MoreMichael Carbin, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, joins Michael and Dave to discuss neural net lottery tickets, computing with uncertainty and more. [Cover photo courtesy of Michael Carbin]
2020-01-0148 min
Central Michigan Life PodcastsSoundcheck S3 E9: The B-52's On this episode of Soundcheck, Andrew and Michael are joined by former Central Michigan Life Editor in Chief Jordyn Hermani and podcast editor Ben Ackley to discuss the career and legacy of seminal new wave band The B-52's. Here comes a bikini whale!
2019-11-291h 04
Computing UpLiving Computation and SocietyDave and Michael revisit the meaning of life (the subject of the second Computing Up conversation) in the context of politics and society and human destiny. [Photo by Jeffrey Lee on Unsplash]
2019-11-0239 min
Computing UpTheories of Theories of EverythingInspired by a WIRED profile of Karl Friston, Dave and Michael talk about theories of everything, and theories thereof. [WIRED Article: https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence/ ]
2019-10-0135 min
Computing UpBrian Christian's AlgorithmsAuthor Brian Christian talks about "Algorithms to Live By", and computing writ large, with Michael and Dave. [Cover photo by Michael Langan courtesy of Brian Christian]
2019-09-0147 min
Computing UpTechnologies more true: Glen Weyl is recomputing democracyGlen Weyl joins Michael and Dave to talk about democracy, mechanism design, quadratic finance, blockchain, and the RadicalXChange. [Image courtesy of Gley Weyl]
2019-07-2748 min
Computing UpDavid Jensen: Because CausalityDavid Jensen, Professor and Director of the Knowledge Discovery Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talks with Michael and Dave because of causality. [Cover image used by permission of David Jensen]
2019-05-0143 min
Computing UpBitter, Better, and BeyondMichael and Dave discuss Rich Sutton's The Bitter Lesson and Rod Brook's A Better Lesson.
2019-03-3136 min
Computing UpWhat is Computation?Michael is preparing an award lecture on computation while Dave, with the sniffles, tries to help.
2019-03-0235 min
Computing UpProgramming in Grad StudentWhen people ask what programming language Michael uses, he basically has to say 'Graduate Students'.
2018-12-2934 min
Computing UpDoes Neutral Point of View Exist?Michael corners Dave-the-extreme-relativist on the meaning of neutrality.
2018-12-0137 min
Computing UpUploading and ImmortalityDave and Michael talk about achieving immortality by 'uploading' yourself into a computer. (Note: There's also this book.) [Episode thumbnail based on public domain image.]
2018-08-3133 min
Computing UpRichard Gerrig on Narrative WorldsMichael and Dave talk to Professor Richard Gerrig about the power and the computation and cognitive science of stories and narrative worlds. Watch out! There be monsters! [Title photograph courtesy of Richard Gerrig]
2018-06-3046 min
Computing UpCharles Isbell is Reinventing Computer EducationMichael talks to Professor Charles Isbell about computing education and topics ranging from Sebastian Thrun to whether computer science is a lame name. [Title photograph courtesy of Charles Isbell]
2018-02-1133 min
Computing UpTEDx TwiceDave finds out how Michael ended up doing two TEDx talks in a month and a half. [Title image using screengrabs from Michael's talks at TEDx Providence and TEDx Boston]
2017-11-1832 min
Dev Game ClubDGC Ep 069: Interview with Marc LaidlawWelcome to Dev Game Club, where we are discussing Valve Software's 1998 classic Half-Life. This week we welcome Marc Laidlaw, long-time Valve employee and writer of Half-Life. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Podcast breakdown: 0:40 Interview with Marc Laidlaw 1:04:50 Break 1:05:16 Feedback/Questions Issues covered: getting started at Valve, looking at story in first person games, unshipped game at Valve, getting Quake community people to work on Half-Life, the early plan for the company, finding features by building lots of tests, randomly discussing featu...
2017-07-051h 39
Computing UpHow We Got to BellcoreHow Michael Littman and Dave Ackley met, in the 1980's. [Title image based on a
2017-06-0128 min
Deep To Left With Bucky Dent6/1/16: MLB.com Extras | New York YankeesThe Yankees continue to fight, but haven't had luck on their side. MLB.com's Tim McMaster and Yankees reporter Bryan Hoch discuss the cold bats and Dustin Ackley's 15-day DL stint, then spotlight CC Sabathia's growth and talk about how much patience the Yankees will continue to have for Michael Pineda.
2016-06-0100 min
Stuart Vener Tells It Like It IsStuart Vener Radio - Episode 162Douglas MacKinnon – Author of “The Forty Days: A Vision of Christ’s Lost Week’s”. He’s talking about his book and the loss of Nancy Reagan. He was also a former speech writer for Ronald Reagan.Odin Odzil – He’s the writer and director of the new movie “California Winter” where a Mexican-American woman learns about real estate and is compelled to enter into subprime loans. Her advice for her dad to refinance his house to pay for her sick mom’s medical bills turned sour. He lost his wife, his house, and the trust of his daughter.M...
2016-03-2859 min
Irish & Celtic Music PodcastSt Patrick's Day Playlist for Irish American Heritage MonthPresident Obama declared March to be Irish American Heritage Month. Of course for me, March is the month of all the Celts as we gather to celebrate the musical and culture of the Celtic nations running all the way up to St. Patrick's Day. I have a ton of great episodes planned for the next few weeks starting today with an extra-long St Patrick's Day special featuring the indie Celtic music of Friday Frolics, Wicked Tinkers, Fiddlinda: Linda Relph, Michael Black, Anne Roos, Michael DeAngelis, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Slipjig, Merry Wives of Windsor, Sons of Malarkey, Ginger Ackley...
2016-03-031h 26
System Smarts - System Design with John Ackley016: Franchise Systems with Paul Maskill of Automate Your Franchise PodcastWhile pursuing a Finance Degree at the University of Michigan Paul had dreams of climbing the corporate ladder to the top. Soon after starting his climb in Chicago, he started seeing cracks in the corporate rat race. Lost in a sea of cubicles and endlessly crunching spreadsheets with no sense of gratification, Paul packed his backpack and headed to South America for two months, knowing he would never return to Corporate America. When he did return, Paul began research into home-based businesses that fueled his passion for sports, kids and business leading to investment in his first franchise, an afterschool...
2016-03-0224 minConventions – The Dead Robots' SocietyBalticon 2012 Panel #4 – Small Press Versus Large PressWhat are the pros and cons either way? Agents , authors and publishers discuss. Moderated by Steve Wilson, with panelists Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Ian Randal Strock, Trish Wilson, Elizabeth Black, Joshua Bilmes, Emilie P. Bush, Barbara Friend Ish, Michael Sullivan, and Tad Daley.
2012-06-1000 min
Issues Today RadioIssues Today 11-18(#11-18-Apr. 25-May 2) Gwyneth Cravens will give an update on the nuclear power industry in America. World Net Daily columnist Michael Ackley will talk about modern journalism, and Donald Van de Mark discusses his book "The Good Among the Great."
2011-04-2527 min