O'Reilly Radar Podcast - O'Reilly Media Podcast
42 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 years ago - ★★★ - 36 ratingsInsight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies from O'Reilly Media.
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Aman Naimat on building a knowlege graph of the entire business world
March 23, 2017 12:25 - 18 minutes - 17.9 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The maturity of AI in enterprise, bridging the AI gaps, and what the U.S. can do with $4 trillion. 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 playing in those companies today and what’s going to drive AI adoption...
AI adoption at the atomic level of jobs and work
March 09, 2017 14:05 - 23 minutes - 22.1 MBO'Reilly Radar Podcast: David Beyer on AI adoption challenges, the complexities of getting an AI ROI, and the dangers of hype. 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. Here are a few highlights: Complexities of AI adoption AI adoption is actually a multifaceted question. It's something that touches...
Sara Watson on optimizing personalized experiences
February 23, 2017 12:00 - 17 minutes - 16.9 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Turning personalization into a two-way conversation. 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 Society at Harvard. They talk about how to optimize personalized experience for consumers, the role of machine learning in ...
Tom Davenport on mitigating AI's impact on jobs and business
February 09, 2017 12:20 - 17 minutes - 16.7 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The value humans bring to AI, guaranteed job programs, and the lack of AI productivity. 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 pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics.” We talk about how his ideas have evolv...
Genevieve Bell on moving from human-computer interactions to human-computer relationships
January 26, 2017 13:15 - 22 minutes - 21.6 MBThe O’Reilly Radar Podcast: AI on the hype curve, imagining nurturing technology, and gaps in the AI conversation. 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 AI conversation. Here are some highlights: AI’s place on the wow-ahh-hmm curve of ...
Pagan Kennedy on how people find, invent, and see opportunities nobody else sees
January 12, 2017 12:24 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The art and science of fostering serendipity skills. 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. Here are some highlights: The roots of serendipity It's really helpful to go back to the original definition of serendipity,...
Giles Colborne on AI's move from academic curiosity to mainstream tech
December 29, 2016 13:15 - 31 minutes - 29.9 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Designing for mainstream AI, natural language interfaces, and the importance of reinventing yourself. 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 ability to reinvent themselves. The conditions are ripe for AI to enter ...
Brad Knox on creating a strong illusion of life
December 15, 2016 14:55 - 59 minutes - 50.9 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Imbuing robots with magic, eschewing deception in AI, and problematic assumptions of human-taught reinforcement learning. 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 transparency should be illegal, and some challenges a...
Fang Yu on using data analytics to catch constantly evolving fraudsters
December 01, 2016 13:40 - 27 minutes - 26.3 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Big data for security, challenges in fraud detection, and the growing complexity of fraudster behavior. 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. Here are some highlights from our chat: Challenges in using supervised mac...
Hilary Mason on the wisdom missing in the AI conversation
November 17, 2016 14:15 - 17 minutes - 16.9 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Thinking critically about AI, modeling language, and overcoming hurdles. 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 ecosystem—what's most intriguing for the short term and what will have the biggest long-term impact. Here are s...
Richard Cook and David Woods on successful anomaly response
November 03, 2016 12:45 - 25 minutes - 24.7 MBO'Reilly Radar Podcast: SNAFU Catchers, knowing how things work, and the proper response to system discrepancies. 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 systems safety at Sweden’s KTH. Woods also is a professor at Ohio State University and is...
Sam Wang on predicting the election, finding truth in mass media, and a new role for the cerebellum
October 20, 2016 13:35 - 36 minutes - 35.1 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Prediction algorithms, cognitive biases, and how our brains come online. 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 crazy election cycle, and the role neuroscience may have played. We also talk about the current res...
John Bassett III on the global economy, the power of people, and how to make it in America
October 06, 2016 14:25 - 21 minutes - 20.8 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Navigating the increasing globalization of industry and commerce. 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 book Factory Man), Bassett's book Making it in America, and what entrepreneurs need to know to succeed in...
Haakon Faste on designing for a "post-human" world
September 22, 2016 11:34 - 49 minutes - 47.4 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: perceptual robotics, post-evolutionary humans, and designing our future with intent. 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 way to a "post-human" world and the importance of designing to make the world a more hu...
Pete Skomoroch on the current state and future potential of bots
September 08, 2016 15:05 - 42 minutes - 41 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Bot hype, bot UX, and bots in the workplace. 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 the sudden interest, what we can expect from the technology, and some interesting emerging applications. Here are some high...
Cory Doctorow on nascent pro-security industries
August 25, 2016 13:00 - 47 minutes - 45.3 MBIn this O’Reilly Radar Podcast: The impact of minimal IoT product security and the case for new pro-security business models. 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 talk about nascent pro-security industries, the EFF's lawsuit against the U...
Alyona Medelyan on applications of NLU
August 11, 2016 14:00 - 17 minutes - 16.8 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Natural language understanding and natural language processing applications, our future with chatbots, and open source indexing. 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. Here are some highlights: Use cases of Natural Lang...
Designing better security outcomes for human beings
July 28, 2016 13:55 - 26 minutes - 25.6 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Eleanor Saitta on security countermeasures at the human level, the relationship between security and design, and understanding security design as a separate discipline. 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 in...
Othman Laraki on achieving the long-tail distribution of genetic insights
July 14, 2016 13:20 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Color Genomics, genetic testing access, and the future of precision medicine. 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). Here are some highlights: Genetics testing for everyone Genetics, we felt, had come to a point where there was an opportunity t...
Smart cities need to inject a dose of humanity to be truly great cities
June 30, 2016 11:15 - 29 minutes - 28.6 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Conversations with Daniele Quercia and Frank Cuypers. 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 technology shouldn't just aim to make a city smart, but to improve the day-to-day quality of life of it's citizens; and...
Ame Elliott on making security usable and delightful
June 16, 2016 11:30 - 19 minutes - 38.2 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: UX for security, architectural inspirations, and problem finding over problem solving. 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 a product and getting the right values out in the world. Elliott also talks about ...
Ben Lorica on the emergence of intelligent, real-time data applications
June 02, 2016 11:30 - 32 minutes - 62.9 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Emerging themes in the data space. 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 another and how they're fueling real-time data applications. Lorica also talks about how the concept of a data center is evolving, the imp...
Scalable and sustainable approaches to product design
May 19, 2016 16:00 - 45 minutes - 88.1 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Ben Yoskovitz on a bottom-up approach to building products and the importance of poking holes in the reality distortion field. 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 to fall down, and why a bottom-up approach...
Marc Warner on AI's fundamental shift: Supplemental thinking
May 05, 2016 12:50 - 26 minutes - 50.7 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The short-term and long-term future of artificial intelligence. 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 survey Warner recently conducted with data science companies in London, where he uncovered a data scientist sk...
Designing with code and computation
April 21, 2016 18:20 - 32 minutes - 62.8 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Scott Murray on creative coding, data visualization, and STEAM. 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. Here are some highlights from their chat: Design, code, and computation I use to call myself a code artist but I really struggl...
Using technology to design across the senses
April 07, 2016 12:45 - 15 minutes - 15.1 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Designing a framework to shape how humans experience technology in the physical world. 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 the role they play in the user experience, and they also chat about how multi-modal...
Timoni West on nailing the virtual reality user experience
March 24, 2016 15:45 - 31 minutes - 75.1 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: VR UX hurdles, bringing VR mainstream, and preparing for user behavior. 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 can expect from VR in the future. West will be talking more about VR at Strata + Hadoop World San Jose 2016 in her session "Virtual reality in 2016 and...
The sharing economy: A big step toward making Marshall McLuhan's Global Village a reality
March 10, 2016 14:00 - 14 minutes - 34.9 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Alyssa Ravasio on founding a company, mining government data, and the future of the sharing economy. 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. Here are some highlights: Mining government data Some states don't have any database we can query, and in that case, we actually have ...
Matt Harris on fintech sectors ripe for innovation and those where elephants have entered the dance hall
February 25, 2016 12:45 - 33 minutes - 80.2 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The maturing payments battleground, bitcoin and blockchain, and insurance 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 opportunity. Harris also talks about why the merchants payment battleground is no lo...
Risto Miikkulainen on evolutionary computation and making robots think for themselves
February 11, 2016 12:22 - 41 minutes - 100 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Evolutionary computation, its applications in deep learning, and how it's inspired by biology. 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 about evolutionary computation, its applications in deep learning, and how it’s inspired by biology. ...
Eric McNulty on real-time disaster response and leadership beyond control
January 28, 2016 11:15 - 14 minutes - 27.1 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: FEMA's Innovation Team and practicing leadership as if it's an Olympic sport. 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 influence beyond authority. McNulty will talk more about instituting effective leadership a...
Mark Burgess on a CS narrative, orders of magnitude, and approaching biological scale
January 14, 2016 11:30 - 27 minutes - 50.1 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: "In Search of Certainty," Promise Theory, and scaling the computational net. 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, In Search of Certainty, Promise Theory and how promises are a kind of service model, and ways of applying promise-orient...
Charles Fracchia on a new breed of biologists
January 12, 2016 00:00 - 40 minutes - 73.7 MBThe O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The merging worlds of software, hardware, and biology. 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. Discussion points: The blurring of the lines between biology, software development, hardware engineering, and electrical engineering BioBright’s ...
Katie Dill on heading up experience design at Airbnb
December 30, 2015 12:10 - 34 minutes - 63.4 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: A triforce company structure, the power of storyboards, and designing business strategy. 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. Here are a few snippets from their conversation: That triforce of product management, engineering, and design, working together from point zero on th...
Patrick Wendell on Spark's roadmap, Spark R API, and deep learning on the horizon
December 23, 2015 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: A special holiday cross-over of the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast. 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. Here are some highlights from their chat: We were really trying to solve research problems, so we were trying to work with the early users of Spark, getting feedback on what issues it had and what types...
Leah Busque and Dan Teran on the future of work
December 17, 2015 00:00 - 15 minutes - 28.2 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Service networking, employees vs contractors, and turning the world into a luxury hotel. 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 talks with Dan Teran, co-founder of Managed by Q, about the on-demand economy and the future of work...
Dave Zwieback on learning reviews and humans keeping pace with complex systems
December 10, 2015 18:05 - 33 minutes - 61.1 MBO'Reilly Radar Podcast: Learning from both failure and success to make our systems more resilient. 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 postmortems not only blameless, but to turn them into a productive learning process. We talk about his book, the framework for conducting a "learning review," and ...
Jeff Jonas on context computing, irresistible surveillance, and hunting astroids with Space Time Boxes
December 03, 2015 00:19 - 12 minutes - 23.1 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Context-aware computing, privacy by design, and predicting astroid collisions. 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 new G2 software, and astroid hunting with astronomers at the University of Honolulu. Here are a few highlights from ou...
Kristian Hammond on truly democratizing data and the value of AI in the enterprise
November 25, 2015 12:01 - 14 minutes - 25.9 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Narrative Science's foray into proprietary business data and humanizing machines to bridge the data gap. 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. Here are a few highlights: We're not telling people what the data are; we're telling people what has happened in the world throug...
Mike Kuniavsky on the tectonic shift of the IoT
November 19, 2015 12:31 - 6 minutes - 11.7 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: The Internet of Things ecosystem, predictive machine learning superpowers, and deep-seated love for appliances and furniture. 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 the sensors. He also talks about his deep-seated love for appliances and furniture, ...
Mary Yoko Brannen on ethnographic thinking and contexts of organizational cultures
November 12, 2015 00:00 - 19 minutes - 34.9 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Organizational cultural identity, HELP systems, and the end of English as the lingua franca. 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 University of Victoria Gustavson School of Business. Brannen is an expert in ethnomethodology and qualitative studies o...
Aaron Irizarry on Nasdaq’s journey to embrace product design
November 05, 2015 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBThe O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Getting a seat at the table is one thing; understanding what to do with it is way more important. 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 at the proverbial table isn't the endgame. Here are a few snippets fro...