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O'Reilly Radar Podcast
by O'Reilly Radar
O'Reilly Radar tracks the technologies and people that will shape our world in the years to come. Each episode of O'Reilly Radar features an interview with an industry thought leader, with topics touching on everything from programming to data to experience design. We also take a step back from the breathless pace of the latest tech news to examine why new developments are important and what they might mean down the road.
Episodes
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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 and deep learning. We also talk about the role AI is...
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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.
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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 affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and…
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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 advisor for Deloitte Analytics. He also…
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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, and five things that are missing from the…
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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 rather than just dumb luck.
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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 nurture the…
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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 or agents that pass themselves off as human without any...
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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 behavior analysis can help defend against—and prevent—attacks.
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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 with emerging technologies, and the AI technology…
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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 emeritus professor of health care…
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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 the site's prediction algorithm and this...
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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 waged (which was written about by Beth Macy in her...
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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. We also talk about navigating our…
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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 about bots—about what's driving...
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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 fiction writer. They…
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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 working on for the past 10 years.
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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 of thinking of security…
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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 them).
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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 and happy maps); why our use of...
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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 to give designers a voice in changing the shape of…
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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 how those technologies relate to one...
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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 product teams tend...
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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 AI. We also talk about a…
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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 with p5.js."
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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 consideration the physical senses and...
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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.
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Matt Harris on Fintech Sectors Ripe for Innovation
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 and misses, and potential untapped areas of...
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Risto Miikkulainen on Evolutionary Computation and Making Robots Think For Themselves
David Beyer, co-founder and CEO of Chart.io, principal at Amplify Partners, 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 about evolutionary computation, its...
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Eric McNulty on Real-Time Disaster Reponse 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...
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Mark Burgess on a CS Narrative, Orders of Magnitude, and Approaching Biological Scale
In this week’s Radar Podcast episode, 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...
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Katie Dill on Heading Up Experience Design at Airbnb
In this special holiday episode of the Radar Pocast, we’re featuring a podcast cross-over of the O’Reilly Design Podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, or SoundCloud. O’Reilly’s Mary Treseler host’s the Design Podcast, and in this episode, she chats with Airbnb’s head of...
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Patrick Wendell on Spark's Roadmap, Spark R API, and Deep Learning on the Horizon
In this special holiday episode of the Radar Podcast, we’re featuring a cross-over of the O’Reilly Data Show Podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, or SoundCloud. O’Reilly’s Ben Lorica hosts that podcast, and in this episode, he chats with Apache Spark release manager and...
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Leah Busque and Dan Teran on the Future of Work
In this week’s Radar Podcast episode, 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…
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Dave Zwieback on Learning Reviews and Humans Keeping Pace With Complex Systems
Dave Zwieback, head of engineering at Next Big Sound and CTO of Lotus Outreach, talks about his new book, "Beyond Blame: Learning from Failure and Success," the framework for conducting a “learning review,” and how humans can keep pace with the growing complexity of the systems we’re building.
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Jeff Jonas on Context Computing, Irresistible Surveillance, and Hunting Astroids
O'Reilly's Jenn Webb chats with Jeff Jonas, an IBM fellow and chief scientist of context computing, Ironman triathlete, and contributing author to the new book, "Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions." Jonas talks about applications of context-aware computing, his new G2 software…
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Kristian Hammond on Truly Democratizing Data and the Value of AI in the Enterprise
Kristian Hammond, Narrative Science’s chief scientist, on Natural Language Generation, Narrative Science’s shift into the world of business data, and evolving beyond the dashboard.
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Mike Kuniavsky on the Tectonic Shift of the IoT
Mike Kuniavsky, a principal scientist in the Innovation Services Group at PARC, on designing for the Internet of Things ecosystem and why the most interesting thing about the IoT isn’t the “things” but the sensors. He also talks about his deep-seated love for appliances and furniture, and how...
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Mary Yoko Brannen on Ethnographic Thinking and Contexts of Organizational Cultures
Mary Yoko Brannen is an expert in ethnomethodology and qualitative studies of complex cultural organizational phenomena. She spends a lot of time focused on how changing cultural contexts affect technology and how to leverage cultural identity in the global workplace. We unpack all that in this...
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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, and why getting a seat...
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The First Rule of Management: Resist the Urge to Manage
O'Reilly's Jenn Webb sits down with Google engineering site lead Ben Collins-Sussman and Tock founder and CTO Brian Fitzpatrick. The two have just released a new book, "Debugging Teams," a follow-up to their earlier book, "Team Geek." They talk about the new edition, how managing is a lot like...
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Music and Tech are Not Enemies
Cellist, composer, and performer Zoe Keating talks about why she chooses to retain total control over her music as opposed to signing with a label, she shares her thoughts on the changing landscape of how artists get paid, and she talks about why she’s optimistic about the future of music.
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Mediating the Relationship Between Society and Technology
Suw Charman-Anderson, journalist, consultant, and founder of Ada Lovelace Day, on why she founded Ada Lovelace Day and why it’s been so successful. She also talks about the state of social media, and the past, present, and future of blogging.
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Movement Data is Going to Transform Everything
Rajiv Maheswaran on the science of moving dots, and Claudia Perlich on big data in advertising.
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Transforming the Experience of Sound and Music
Poppy Crum, senior principal scientist at Dolby Laboratories and a consulting professor at Stanford, on sensory perception, algorithm design, and fundamental changes in music.
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Big Data and the Music Industry: Where's the Romance
Alistair Croll chats with musician and performer Amanda Palmer about the current state of the music industry and how she's navigating her way through new platforms, crowdfunding, and an ever-increasing amount of data.
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Reconciling Design Thinking With the Craft of Design Doing
O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Suzanne Pellican, VP and executive creative director at Intuit, about three core principles of design thinking and about Intuit’s journey to become a design-driven organization.
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O'Reilly Radar tracks the technologies and people that will shape our world in the years to come. Each episode of O'Reilly Radar features an interview with an industry thought leader, with topics touching on everything from programming to data to experience design. We also take a step back from the breathless pace of the latest tech news to examine why new developments are important and what they might mean down the road.
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