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• 03.23.2017

  Aman Naimat on building a knowlege graph of the entire business world

  This week, I sit down with Aman Naimat, senior vice president of technology at Demandbase, and co-founder and CTO of Spiderbook. We talk about his project to build a knowledge graph of the entire business world using natural language processing...

  
• 03.09.2017

  AI adoption at the atomic level of jobs and work

  This week, I sit down with David Beyer, an investor with Amplify Partners. We talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence, the challenges he’s seeing in AI adoption, and what he thinks is missing from the AI conversation.

  
• 02.23.2017

  Sara Watson on optimizing personalized experiences

  In this week's Radar Podcast, O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum chats with Sara Watson, a technology critic and writer in residence at Digital Asia Hub. Watson is also a research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia and an...

  
• 02.09.2017

  Tom Davenport on mitigating AI's impact on jobs and business

  This week, I sit down with Tom Davenport. Davenport is a professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business, and a senior...

  
• 01.26.2017

  Genevieve Bell on moving from human-computer interactions to human-computer relationships

  This week, I sit down with anthropologist, futurist, Intel Fellow, and director of interaction and experience research at Intel, Genevieve Bell. We talk about what she’s learning from current AI research, why the resurgence of AI is different this time,...

  
• 01.12.2017

  Pagan Kennedy on how people find, invent, and see opportunities nobody else sees

  On this week's episode of the Radar Podcast, O'Reilly's Mac Slocum chats with award-winning author Pagan Kennedy about the art and science of serendipity—how people find, invent, and see opportunities nobody else sees, and why serendipity is actually a skill...

  
• 12.29.2016

  Giles Colborne on AI's move from academic curiosity to mainstream tech

  This week we're featuring a conversation from earlier this year—O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Giles Colborne, managing director of cxpartners. They talk about the transformative effects of AI on design, designing for natural language interactions, and why designers need to...

  
• 12.15.2016

  Brad Knox on creating a strong illusion of life

  In this episode, I sit down with Brad Knox, founder and CEO of Emoters, a startup building a product called bots_alive—animal-like robots that have a strong illusion of life. We chat about the approach the company is taking, why robots...

  
• 12.01.2016

  Fang Yu on using data analytics to catch constantly evolving fraudsters

  This week, I sit down with Fang Yu, cofounder and CTO of DataVisor, where she focuses on big data for security. We talk about the current state of the fraud landscape, how fraudsters are evolving, and how data analytics and...

  
• 11.17.2016

  Hilary Mason on the wisdom missing in the AI conversation

  This week, I sit down with Hilary Mason, who is a data scientist in residence at Accel Partners and founder and CEO of Fast Forward Labs. We chat about current research projects at Fast Forward Labs, adoption hurdles companies face...

  
• 11.03.2016

  Richard Cook and David Woods on successful anomaly response

  In this week's episode, O'Reilly's Mac Slocum sits down with Richard Cook and David Woods. Cook is a physician, researcher, and educator, who is currently a research scientist in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at Ohio State University, and...

  
• 10.20.2016

  Sam Wang on predicting the election, finding truth in mass media, and a new role for the cerebellum

  On this week's episode, I chat with Sam Wang, professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton. Wang is also a co-founder of the Princeton Election Consortium, a site focused on analyzing and predicting U.S. national elections. We talk about...

  
• 10.06.2016

  John Bassett III on the global economy, the power of people, and how to make it in America

  In this episode of the Radar Podcast, I chat with John Bassett III, chairman of the board of the Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company. We talk about globalization and the effect it's had on the furniture industry, the international trade battle he...

  
• 09.22.2016

  Haakon Faste on designing for a "post-human" world

  In this Radar Podcast episode, I chat with Haakon Faste, a design educator and innovation consultant. We talk about his interesting career path, including his perceptual robotics work, his teaching approaches, and his mission with the Ralf A. Faste Foundation....

  
• 09.08.2016

  Pete Skomoroch on the current state and future potential of bots

  This week on the Radar Podcast, we're featuring the first episode of the newly launched O'Reilly Bots Podcast, which you can find on Stitcher, iTunes, SoundCloud and RSS. O'Reilly's Jon Bruner is joined by Pete Skomoroch, the co-founder and CEO of Skipflag, to talk...

  
• 08.25.2016

  Cory Doctorow on nascent pro-security industries

  This week's Radar Podcast episode is a special cross-over edition from the O'Reilly Security Podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, RSS, or SoundCloud. O'Reilly strategic content director Courtney Nash chats with Cory Doctorow, a journalist, activist and science...

  
• 08.11.2016

  Alyona Medelyan on applications of NLU

  This week, I talk with Alyona Medelyan, co-founder and CEO at Thematic and founder and CEO at Entopix. We talk about natural language understanding, the challenges of analyzing unstructured text, and her open source indexing tool Maui that she's been...

  
• 07.28.2016

  Designing better security outcomes for human beings

  This week's episode features a special cross-over conversation from the O'Reilly Security Podcast, which you can find on Stitcher, iTunes, SoundCloud, or RSS. O'Reilly's Courtney Nash chats with Eleanor Saitta, a security architect at Etsy. They talk about the importance...

  
• 07.14.2016

  Othman Laraki on achieving the long-tail distribution of genetic insights

  This week, I chat with Othman Laraki, co-founder of Color Genomics. We chat about challenges and opportunities in genetic testing, the future of precision medicine, and the hurdles medicine and health care are currently facing (and how we can overcome...

  
• 06.30.2016

  Smart cities need to inject a dose of humanity to be truly great cities

  This week's episode features two conversations I've had recently centered around smart cities. First, I chat with Daniele Quercia, research team lead at Bell Labs. We talk about research he's working on now; the launch of goodcitylife.org (including smelly maps...

  
• 06.16.2016

  Ame Elliott on making security usable and delightful

  This week's episode is a cross-post from the O'Reilly Design Podcast. O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Ame Elliott, design director at Simply Secure. They talk about security and privacy design, with a focus on the end user experience, and how...

  
• 06.02.2016

  Ben Lorica on the emergence of intelligent, real-time data applications

  This week, O'Reilly's Mac Slocum chats with Ben Lorica, O'Reilly's chief data scientist and host of the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast. Lorica talks about emerging themes in the data space, from machine learning to deep learning to artificial intelligence, and...

  
• 05.19.2016

  Scalable and sustainable approaches to product design

  This week, we're featuring a special crossover podcast from our O'Reilly Design Podcast. O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with investor, entrepreneur, and former VP of product, Ben Yoskovitz. Yoskovitz talks about product design strategy and the benefits of lean approaches, where...

  
• 05.05.2016

  Marc Warner on AI's fundamental shift: Supplemental thinking

  In this episode, I chat with Marc Warner, CEO of ASI, a data science and business analytics consultancy and training organization in London. We talk about artificial intelligence, speculating about the future and looking at current real-world business applications of...

  
• 04.21.2016

  Designing with code and computation

  This week, O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with designer, creative coder, and artist Scott Murray about coding and computation in design, his book Interactive Data Visualization for the Web and his new book coming out soon Creative Coding and Data Visualization...

  
• 04.07.2016

  Using technology to design across the senses

  In this week's episode of the Radar Podcast, O'Reilly's Mac Slocum chats with Christine Park, senior product designer at Basis, and John Alderman, director of Supereverywhere. They talk about multi-modal design, which is an approach to design that takes into...

  
• 03.24.2016

  Timoni West on nailing the virtual reality user experience

  This week, I chat with Timoni West, the principal designer at Unity Labs, where she specializes in virtual reality (VR) user experience. We talk about VR, the UX hurdles designers are tackling, what will drive mainstream adoption, and what we...

  
• 03.10.2016

  The sharing economy: A big step toward making Marshall McLuhan's Global Village a reality

  In this week's episode, I sit down with Alyssa Ravasio, founder and CEO of Hipcamp. We chat about navigating the challenges of founding a company, mining government data, and the role the sharing economy will play in the future.

  
• 02.25.2016

  Matt Harris on fintech sectors ripe for innovation and those where elephants have entered the dance hall

  In this week's episode, Hannah Grenade, a tech entrepreneur and former partner at McKinsey, chats with Matt Harris, managing director at Bain Capital Ventures. They talk about the most interesting areas in fintech innovation, taking a look at some hits...

  
• 02.11.2016

  Risto Miikkulainen on evolutionary computation and making robots think for themselves

  In this week’s episode, David Beyer, principal at Amplify Partners, co-founder of Chart.io, and part of the founding team at Patients Know Best, chats with Risto Miikkulainen, professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin. They chat...

  
• 01.28.2016

  Eric McNulty on real-time disaster response and leadership beyond control

  O'Reilly's Jenn Webb chats with Eric McNulty, a consultant, writer, speaker, and catalyst for positive leadership. McNulty talks about real-time disaster response, the connections between disaster response and organizational leadership, and how today's leaders can achieve order beyond control and...

  
• 01.14.2016

  Mark Burgess on a CS narrative, orders of magnitude, and approaching biological scale

  Aneel Lakhani, director of marketing at SignalFx, chats with Mark Burgess, professor emeritus of network and system administration, former founder and CTO of CFEngine, and now an independent technologist and researcher. They talk about the new edition of Burgess' book,...

  
• 01.12.2016

  Charles Fracchia on a new breed of biologists

  In this new episode of the Hardware Podcast—which features our first discussion focusing specifically on synthetic biology—David Cranor and I talk with Charles Fracchia, an IBM Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and founder of the synthetic biology company BioBright.

  
• 12.30.2015

  Katie Dill on heading up experience design at Airbnb

  O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Airbnb's head of experience design Katie Dill about the values that drive design at Airbnb, the triforce structure of the company, and the process of journey mapping their users' experience.

  
• 12.23.2015

  Patrick Wendell on Spark's roadmap, Spark R API, and deep learning on the horizon

  O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with Apache Spark release manager and Databricks co-founder Patrick Wendell about Spark's roadmap and interesting applications he's seeing in the growing Spark ecosystem.

  
• 12.17.2015

  Leah Busque and Dan Teran on the future of work

  O'Reilly's Mac Slocum delves into the economy with two speakers from our recent Next:Economy conference. First, Slocum talks with Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit, about service networking, TaskRabbit's goals, and issues facing the peer economy. In the second segment, Slocum...

  
• 12.10.2015

  Dave Zwieback on learning reviews and humans keeping pace with complex systems

  O'Reilly's Jenn Webb chats with Dave Zwieback, head of engineering at Next Big Sound and CTO of Lotus Outreach. Zwieback is the author of a new book, Beyond Blame: Learning from Failure and Success, that outlines an approach to make...

  
• 12.03.2015

  Jeff Jonas on context computing, irresistible surveillance, and hunting astroids with Space Time Boxes

  O'Reilly's Jenn Webb sits down with Jeff Jonas, an IBM fellow and chief scientist of context computing, Ironman triathlete, and contributing author to Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions. Jonas talks about applications of context-aware computing, his...

  
• 11.25.2015

  Kristian Hammond on truly democratizing data and the value of AI in the enterprise

  O'Reilly's Mac Slocum chats with Kristian Hammond, Narrative Science's chief scientist. Hammond talks about Natural Language Generation, Narrative Science's shift into the world of business data, and evolving beyond the dashboard.

  
• 11.19.2015

  Mike Kuniavsky on the tectonic shift of the IoT

  O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Mike Kuniavsky, a principal scientist in the Innovation Services Group at PARC. Kuniavsky talks about designing for the Internet of Things ecosystem and why the most interesting thing about the IoT isn't the "things" but...

  
• 11.12.2015

  Mary Yoko Brannen on ethnographic thinking and contexts of organizational cultures

  O'Reilly's Jenn Webb sits down with Mary Yoko Brannen, the president and CEO of CLIA Consulting, the Jarislowsky East Asia (Japan) chair at the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, and a professor of international business and research director at the...

  
• 11.05.2015

  Aaron Irizarry on Nasdaq’s journey to embrace product design

  O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Aaron Irizarry, director of user experience for Nasdaq product design, about Nasdaq's journey to become a design-driven organization. Irizarry also talks about the best ways to have solid conversations about the designs you're working on,...