Exploring Algorithms of Oppression with Dr. Safiya Noble

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Building the Internet with sendmail's Eric Allman

In this episode, in association with the ACM ByteCast, Scott talks with Eric Allman, one of the foundational figures of the early internet. Best known for creating Sendmail, the mail transfer agent that powered a large portion of global email infrastructure through the formative ...  Show more

A cognition engine for science with Allen Stewart

Scott Hanselman sits down with Allen Stewart, Partner Director of Software Engineering at Microsoft, to explore how AI agents with persistent memory are transforming scientific research and software engineering. Allen explains how his team built an AI system that learns from ever ...  Show more

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