Latest Carnegiemellon Podcast Episodes
Season 1 Trailer | The Human Side of Technological Change
Consequential - October 18, 2019 02:07 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOur future isn’t a coin flip. In an age of artificial intelligence and increasing automation, Consequential looks at our digital future and discusses what’s significant, what’s coming and what we can do about it. Over the course of our first season, hosts Lauren Prastien and Eugene Leventhal wil...
This is Consequential
Consequential - October 18, 2019 02:07 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOur future isn’t a coin flip. In an age of artificial intelligence and increasing automation, Consequential looks at our digital future and discusses what’s significant, what’s coming and what we can do about it. Over the course of our first season, hosts Lauren Prastien and Eugene Leventhal wil...
Leadership and Strategy with U.S. Army Colonel Chris Cox
Heinz Radio - October 07, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsEach spring at Heinz College, the U.S. Army War College drops by for a weekend to run the International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE). In this week's special two-part episode, we're finding out what the ISCNE is all about and what kind of lessons the students take away from it. ...
Chris Castro on How to Build Sustainable Cities
Heinz Radio - September 30, 2019 05:16 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsChris Castro, Director of Sustainability for the City of Orlando, stopped by Heinz College last spring to deliver a lecture about urban sustainability. Afterward, he sat down with Heinz Radio to discuss his efforts to incorporate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into Orlando’s su...
Technology for the People: Public Interest Technology with Afua Bruce
Heinz Radio - September 23, 2019 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsDesigning a better foster care application process. Listening to the people. Creating a process that works for (literally) everyone. This week, Afua Bruce, Director of Engineering at New America's Public Interest Technology program, joins us to talk about how technology is being used to benefit...
Social Impact Investing with Joe Blair
Heinz Radio - September 16, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAt Obvious Ventures, where Joe Blair is a Vice President and investor, they invest in companies that have a #worldpositive impact -- AKA businesses that have sustainable positive impact, whose profits further their purpose, and whose margins drive their mission. How does this kind of investi...
Polarization in America with Former Congressman Jason Altmire [Rebroadcast]
Heinz Radio - September 09, 2019 14:27 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsREBROADCAST (Original Publication Date: July 30, 2018) This week, we're republishing one of the original Heinz Radio episodes. In this episode, Eugene Leventhal interviewed Former Congressman Jason Altmire. They talked about his book, Dead Center: How Political Polarization Divided America and...
The Future of Digital Privacy with Dr. Alessandro Acquisti
Heinz Radio - September 04, 2019 13:22 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJoin us this week with Dr. Alessandro Acquisti, a highly esteemed Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at Heinz College. Dr. Acquisti is the recipient of numerous awards for his research in privacy economics and is a trailblazer in the field. We discuss Dr. Acquisti's background...
Social Innovation with Smita Satiani
Heinz Radio - August 19, 2019 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWelcome to this week’s episode of Heinz Radio. Back in April, we had Smita Satiani come to campus to give a talk at Heinz College on moonshots. Smita is the head of Innovation Policy on the F-SOC or Free Space Optical Communications project at X. If you haven’t heard of X before, they are the mo...
Opioids in America with Sam Quinones
Heinz Radio - July 15, 2019 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWelcome to this week's episode of Heinz Radio with host, Eugene Leventhal. Back in April, Sam Quinones came to CMU's campus to give a talk as part of the University Lecture Series. Sam is a journalist and author of the book Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - a really engagin...
Democratic Debate Special Edition!
Heinz Radio - July 01, 2019 07:10 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWith 216 days until the Iowa Caucuses and 491 days until the 2020 Election, the campaign to nominate the next Democratic Presidential candidate has already started to heat up. Twenty candidates took to the stage last week in Miami for two nights of debates, and loyal Heinz Radio listeners might ...
Risk Assessments at Sentencing in Pennsylvania
Heinz Radio - June 17, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn 2010, the Pennsylvania State Legislature mandated that the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing create a risk assessment tool to be used at sentencing. Since then, the Commission has worked to create a tool that meets this mandate and addresses public concerns about fairness, bias and the cr...
Current Year: 03 AML
Heinz Radio - June 03, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this week's episode, host Vanessa speaks with Dr. Mark Kamlet. Dr. Kamlet is a professor of economics and public policy and a former provost who has been with Carnegie Mellon University since 1976. His research focuses on the economic impacts of automation and AI. In this episode, he explains...
Venezuela Crisis with John Polga-Hecimovich
Heinz Radio - May 20, 2019 02:50 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode of Heinz Radio guest interviewer Claudia Bustamante from Carnegie Mellon’s Latino/a Graduate Student Association sat down with John Polga-Hecimovich, assistant professor of comparative politics at the United States Naval Academy, to discuss the ongoing political and economic turm...
Policy through an Understanding of Data, Systems, and Experiences: A Season 1 Recap
Heinz Radio - May 13, 2019 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this week's episode, we take a walk down memory lane and revisit 12 of the 40 episodes published in the inaugural season of the podcast. Come along with host Matthew Fochs as he explores some of the underlying themes that have popped up each week despite the diverse background and interests o...
Advanced Technology in the Healthcare Sector with Joe Marks
Heinz Radio - April 29, 2019 14:47 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week's episode Corina Paraschiv sits down with the Executive Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at CMU, Joe Marks. After graduating from Harvard University, Mr. Marks has been involved with invention and innovation in applied computing for over 30 years in multiple conte...
An Open and Digital Government with Cori Zarek
Heinz Radio - April 22, 2019 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsCori Zarek has spent her professional life working on transparent, open and digital government. In our interview, Cori describes some of the work she did in these areas during Obama administration, why an open and digital government matters, and how she has continued to fight for it since leavin...
Legacy of Cesar Chavez and Effective Activism
Heinz Radio - April 15, 2019 06:12 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHave you ever felt extremely passionate about a cause but don’t know how to be an effective activist? You might find some inspiration in this week’s episode of Heinz Radio where host Chinmayee interviews Eduardo Chavez, director of the documentary Hailing Cesar and grandson of the legendary civi...
Jeff Meisel: Government Innovation and the 2020 Census
Heinz Radio - April 08, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week, Jeff Meisel sits down with Collin T Hayes to discuss his experience working in the federal government and the 2020 census, which will be the first ever to be conducted online. Jeff discusses the path that led him to public service after a career in the tech industry (2:18). He also ex...
Puerto Rico: The Last Colony with Juan Agustin Marquez
Heinz Radio - April 01, 2019 07:28 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJuan Agustin Marquez is a Puerto Rican filmmaker and a four time Emmy award winner. His documentary "The Last Colony" was released in 2015 and follows the events leading up to Puerto Rico's fourth plebiscite, a national referendum to decide the future of the island's status as US territory. Marq...
Urban Agriculture and Local Government with Shelly Danko+Day
Heinz Radio - March 25, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week's Heinz Radio episode features Shelly Danko+Day from Pittsburgh's Department of City Planning talking with Kate Vander Weide about the ins and outs of local government. Shelly has a broad background in food systems and gets into the weeds on creating a program to allow community...
AI, Ethics, & Regulation with David Danks
Heinz Radio - March 18, 2019 03:24 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this week's episode, Preetha Swamy and Eugene Leventhal interview Professor David Danks. He is the Head of the Philosophy Department, the L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, and teaches cross-listed courses on AI and Ethics. This discussion touched on the state of regulat...
A Roundtable Discussion on Institutional Racism and How Students Can Fight For Diversity with Khalil Muhammad
Heinz Radio - March 11, 2019 19:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week, we’re featuring Khalil G. Muhammad,Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Khalil has spent his professional life examining the intersections of race, democracy, inequity...
Bitcoin & Trust with Ariella, Eugene's Niece
Heinz Radio - March 04, 2019 16:34 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHave you ever wondered why you should care about bitcoin? In this episode, Eugene sat down with his 8-year old niece Ariella to discuss just that! They talk about bitcoin and one of its innovations in terms of adding trust in a peer to peer environment. During this fun little chat, Ariella and...
Bots, Disinformation and Network Analysis with Dr. Kathleen Carley
Heinz Radio - February 25, 2019 13:20 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this week’s episode, hosts Spriha Gupta and Vanessa Kolb speak with Dr. Kathleen Carley about bots and disinformation on social media. Dr. Carley is a professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science and is the director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social an...
The Power of Civil Discourse with Cordell Carter
Heinz Radio - February 18, 2019 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week on Heinz Radio, Sara Jackson sits down with Cordell Carter, Executive Director of the Socrates Program at the Aspen Institute. They talk about Cordell’s journey reviving civil discourse around the world, driving leaders to wrestle with the tensions in every big decision they make, and ...
The Future of Technology in Education with Sam Franklin
Heinz Radio - February 11, 2019 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSam Franklin is the VP of Schools for AltSchool, a network of tuition-funded pre-kindergarten through 8th-grade lab schools throughout San Francisco and New York City. Prior to his current job, Sam worked as the Executive Director for the Office of Teacher Effectiveness at Pittsburgh Public Scho...
Analyzing the Urban Commons with Dan O'Brien
Heinz Radio - February 04, 2019 05:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsDaniel O'Brien is a data analyst with the Boston Area Research Initiative and an associate professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. He visited Heinz College on January 29 to give a lecture about how Boston has used data generated from its 311 system to understand ...
Aiming for Art in Smart Cities with Dr. Brett Crawford and Jenée Iyer
Heinz Radio - January 28, 2019 15:32 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this week’s episode, we explore the world of art and technology. Hosts Abhijit Nimbalkar and Kate Vander Wiede talk with Dr. Brett Crawford and Jenée Iyer about why art is so important to society and how it can and should play a role in cities. They discuss how artificial intelligence, chat...
US-China Battle for Tech Supremacy with Paul Triolo
Heinz Radio - January 21, 2019 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week, Matthew Fochs sits down with Paul Triolo. Paul is a China Digital Economy Fellow at New America focusing on global technology policy issues, cyber-security, internet governance, ICT regulatory issues, and emerging areas such as automation, AI/Big Data, ambient intelligence, and fintec...
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