The Tonya Hall Innovation Show

Tonya Hall interviews technology and innovation newsmakers across multiple fields including AI, machine learning, cloud computing, programming and digital health as well as a wide range of enterprise issues.

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Where weather tech is headed
Mike Wolfinbarger, vice president of mobile development for the weather group at DTN, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about where weather technology is headed within the decade.
9 min
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Voting security during the COVID crisis
Tonya Hall sits down with Dr. David Dill, professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University, to talk about why computer-aided voting can never be made secure but voting by mail accommodates social distancing.
13 min
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Data sets: Ways to eliminate bias for more fair...
Tonya Hall sits down with Dr. Ayanna Howard, founder and CTO at Zyrobotics, to learn more about ways to eliminate bias from data sets to work to make technology more fair than humans.
7 min
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IBM on AI and the future of work
Dr. Martin Fleming, vice president and chief economist at IBM, talks to Tonya Hall about what the future of work looks like by incorporating AI into everyday tasks, including what to do about those AI-resistant human skills and attributes.
8 min
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Ransomware targets industrial control systems
Tonya Hall talks to Andy Greenberg, author and senior cybersecurity writer at Wired, to learn more about industrial control systems are being attacked in a widespread fashion.
5 min
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How telemedicine is helping the fight against C...
Dr. Jason Hallock, chief medical officer, SOC Telemed, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about ways that the health and tech industries have had to work together in order to safely combat the dangers of the COVID-19 crisis.
6 min
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COVID-19 spam attacks: Consumers and small busi...
Tonya Hall sits down with Stephanie Carruthers, chief people hacker at IBM X-Force Red, to talk about ways small businesses and consumers can recognize spam attacks, along with what preventative measures should be taken.
5 min
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Building a data lake to address the COVID-19 pa...
Tonya Hall talks to Tom Siebel, chairman and CEO at C3.ai, about the work being done to gather as much data about the virus as possible and why the company is opening the data up for free access to private and public sector organizations.
7 min
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Call of AI Ethics: The origin story
Dr. Francesca Rossi, IBM fellow, AI ethics global leader, and distinguished research staff member, IBM Research, tells Tonya Hall about the Call of AI Ethics that was initiated by the Vatican and presented to Pope Francis.
14 min
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How AI and supercomputing are going green
Tonya Hall talks to Dr. John Cohn, IBM fellow in the MIT-IBM Watson AI research group, about new ways that AI is working to become more green, including how one supercomputer is turning to more power-saving options.
12 min
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Learning to code: The correlation between self-...
Tonya Hall sits down with Dr. Rana El Kaliouby, author and co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, to learn more about the process of learning to code emotion.
7 min
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How to filter out fake news
Tonya Hall sits down with Lindsay Stewart, founder and CEO of Stringr, to talk about various strategies for combating fake news.
7 min
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Ethical AI: Self-governance vs external regulation
Kathy Baxter, architect of ethical AI practice at Salesforce, sits down with Tonya Hall to explain the benefits of ethical AI and the differences between self-governance vs external regulation within the industry.
11 min
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The 2020 election and ransomware attacks
Wendi Whitmore, vice president of IBM X Force, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about the role basic cybersecurity training plays into preventing election ransomware attacks.
7 min
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The status of artificial adversarial intelligence
Tonya Hall speaks with Dr. Una-May O'Reilly, MIT IBM Watson AI lab, to learn more about the current status of artificial adversarial intelligence and the strengths of adversarial dynamics over model-based malware detectors.
6 min
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Explaining the AI black box problem
Sheldon Fernandez, CEO of DarwinAI, explains to Tonya Hall what the AI black box is, what the issues are surrounding it, and how we can transform AI's black box into a glass box.
7 min
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How Pinterest is trying to inspire user creativ...
Tonya Hall sits down with Tina Pukonen, global entertainment marketing and strategy lead at Pinterest, to learn more about ways Pinterest is hoping to spark users' creativity through their app.
10 min
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Microsoft: How XR can be used the enterprise
Tonya Hall sits down with Greg Sullivan, director of mixed reality at Microsoft, to discuss ways that XR could be used in the enterprise, including how the Hololens 2 could be used as a commercial device.
8 min
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Using AI to prevent and detect epidemics
Seth Siegel, North American head of AI consulting at Infosys, tells Tonya Hall ways that AI can be used to detect and prevent epidemics, the importance of sharing data between countries during a pandemic, and what businesses need to do in order to protect themselves in a crisis.
9 min
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Accelerating space commerce, exploration, and d...
Tonya Hall sits down with Rob Meyerson, founder and CEO of Delalune Space and executive producer at ASCEND for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, to learn more about how the ASCEND conference is helping businesses expand into space and why .NASA wants to partner with businesses that may have no space experience.
9 min
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How open source solved e-commerce's biggest issues
Dietmar Rietsch, CEO at Pimcore, talks to Tonya Hall about the e-commerce issues that were solved by the open source community, and what the future of an open source e-commerce world looks like.
5 min
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HoloLens 2 review: Demoing Microsoft's AR headset
Dr. Brian Woolf, optometrist and owner of Woolf Eye Lab, sits down with Tonya Hall to show off the HoloLens 2 while predicting what he believes the future of smart glasses looks like.
7 min
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Where machine written and verbal communication ...
Dr. Melanie Mitchell, Davis professor at the Santa Fe Institute, talks to Tonya Hall about training machines to predict conversations and how that technology will evolve.
6 min
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A bill of rights for programmers
Dr. Kartik Hosanagar, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about the responsibilities of programmers, breaking it down into four main components.
8 min
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Great science is done by everyone, regardless o...
Tonya Hall sits down with Dr. Shohini Ghose, professor of physics and computer science and founding director of the Center for Women in Science at Wilfred Laurier University, to learn more about how great science is done by everyone.
11 min