UCLA computer scientist Judea Pearl joins us to talk about the science of cause and effect.
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Your Brain On Technology
We’ll talk about how computers and smartphone actually diminish our ability to think clearly with UCLA professor Shlomo Benartzi, author of “The Smarter Screen.”
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Technological Intuition
This hour, we’ll talk about creating a world in which computers are able to predict our needs before we’ve even thought of them with Pedro Domingos, author of “The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World.”
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Social Action, Offscreen
This hour, we’ll talk about why personal connections are the key to helping the less fortunate with computer scientist Kentaro Toyama, author of ‘Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology.’
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The Art Of Code
We’ll talk this hour about the intersection between writing for humans and writing for computers with Vikram Chandra, author of Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty.
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