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2026

Protecting Human Creators from Generative AI | Ben Y. Zhao
September 30, 2026
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AI After Hours: Working Smarter with GenAI
June 11, 2026
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IntentC: An Experimental Compiler of Intent | Patrick Boueri
April 2, 2026
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Effective Data Visualization | David Giard
March 4, 2026
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Quantum computers | Lane Gunderman
February 25, 2026
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Recommender Systems for Local Journalism | Dr. Payam Pourashraf
January 14, 2026
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2025

AI and Gamification: Why Students Cheat and How to Rebuild Learning | Dr. Szymon Machajewski
November 19, 2025
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Bias and Ethics in AIEd in Relation to Equity and Justice in STEM Education | Dr. Okhee Lee
November 12, 2025
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Designing Technology for Low Literacy Individuals | Dr. Francisco Iacobelli
October 29, 2025
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Data Warehousing-the Industrial Perspective-H_Dombrovskaya
October 7, 2025
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Prevention and Detection of Cyberattacks | Rigel Gjomemo
June 25, 2025
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Bridging Diverse Connections through Mobile Social Networking
April 11, 2025
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Dapper | Xiaoguang Wang
April 2, 2025
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Cyber Risk as a Business Imperative | Kayne McGladrey
February 27, 2025
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2024

US-RSE: Empowering Hidden Contributors | Sandra Geising
September 18, 2024
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Generative AI and the Future of Work | Rajendra Shroff
May 8, 2024
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March Madness: Analytical Models for NCAA Men's Basketball
March 20, 2024
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Hallucination-free zone: LLMs + Graph Databases | Jennifer Reif
February 21, 2024
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January meetup with Shengdong
January 2024
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2023

A Pre-History of Computer Graphics | Jacob Gaboury
December 2023
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Journey from Software Engineer to VP and Entrepreneur | Robbie Clutton
November 2023
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September meetup with Bill Guschwan
September 2023
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How to Fund and Launch Your AI Startup | Oana Olteanu
June 14, 2023
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Designing Data Governance for Data Architecture
May 31, 2023
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Webinar with Atul Dhingra of Standard AI
April 4, 2023
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The Non-Protoplasmic Sentience Driving DABUS
March 1, 2023
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Large Language Models and The End of Programming | Matt Welsh
February 8, 2023
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The Metaverse is Coming... and it Could be Dangerous | Louis Rosenberg
January 11, 2023
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2022

Self-Supervised Learning at the Edge | Dario Dematties
November 2022
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Artificially Smart and Trustworthy Cities | Charlie Catlett
October 2022
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Inside Microsoft Research
September 26, 2022
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Automatic Speech Recognition: An Overview | Nikhita Sharma
July 2022
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Flutter: No Slides, All Code | Jorge Coca
June 2022
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Becoming Universal: The New History of Modern Computing
May 2022
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A Nuclear Physicist’s Guide to Quantum Computing
February 16, 2022
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The Great Semiconductor Shortage of 2021–2022
January 25, 2022
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2021

Reinforcement Learning with Ray RLlib | Dean Wampler
December 2021
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Understanding, Predicting and Changing Eating Habits on the Web
November 2021
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Detecting Synthetic Faces by Understanding Real Faces
October 21, 2021
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Careers: Riding the Rapids of Change
July 21, 2021
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No More Dashboards: Why Employees Aren’t Using Data
May 19, 2021
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AI and Creative Writing | Melissa Roemmele
April 21, 2021
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Computational Opportunities at the Digital-Physical Interface in Infrastructure
March 17, 2021
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Collaborative Digital Fabrication Project | Jeff Solin
February 17, 2021
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Explaining and Accelerating Machine Learning for Finance
January 20, 2021
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Conversation with Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson
January 13, 2021
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2020

Supercomputing and ALCF
December 7, 2020
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Cinematic Scientific Visualization
November 18, 2020
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Software Musical Instrument Design with Machine Learning and Listening
October 21, 2020
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Bias on the Web
September 30, 2020
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Microsoft’s AI for Good
May 13, 2020
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More recordings

Machine Learning for the Connected Car

3 Keys to Unlock the Power of Trust to Build the Perfect Agile Team - Danielle Pollard

Trends and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare by Mark Shapiro, Anthem

Earlier events

Explore 53 talks, panels and workshops from 2008–2014 in our archive, organized into expandable year sections.