Curious Minds Podcast
1) Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Pt. I | Curious Minds Podcast
AlphaGo's victory on S. Korea's champion Le SeDol was a shock to many in the computer world - but was only a natural development in the story of Artificial Intelligence, as it unfolds in the last few ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) The Awful and Wonderful History of the Mir Space Station | Curious Minds Podcast
The Mir Space Station was a true Soviet engineering wonder, an achievement comparable with the US landing on the Moon. Yet in its later years, Mir survived some horrific & hair-raising accidents...
The Awful and Wonderful History of the Mir Space Station | Curious Minds Podcast
45:35 | Sep 2nd, 2017
3) The Lost Manuscript of Archimedes | Curious Minds Podcast
Archimedes is famous for being Ancient Greece's greatest engineer. Yet a random discovery - a prayers book found in an old church in Turkish Istanbul, casts this mysterious genius in an even more surp...Show More
4) The Dark Avenger [From: Malicious.Life] | Curious Minds Podcast
In 1989, a message was found in a virus: "Eddie Lives…Somewhere in Time!". 'Eddie' was a particularly nasty virus, and its discovery led a young Bulgarian security researcher down a rabbit hole, on a ...Show More
5) Are Software Bugs Inevitable? Part 2: The Most Expensive Failed Software Project Ever | Curious Minds Podcast
After describing the Software Crisis in the previous episode, we discuss the various methodologies and practices implemented over the years to combat the complexities of software development. We'll te...Show More
6) Are Software Bugs Inevitable? Part 1: FORTRAN and the Denver Airport Baggage Disaster | Curious Minds Podcast
Software errors and random bugs are rather common: We’ve all seen the infamous Windows “blue screen of death”... But is there really nothing we can do about it? Are these errors – from small bugs to c...Show More
7) Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense (SDI) Initiative, AKA – “Star Wars” | Curious Minds Podcast
In 1983, president Ronald Reagan shocked the world when he announced that the United States was developing an ultra-modern defense system against intercontinental ballistic missiles. Hundreds of billi...Show More
8) The History of File Sharing, Part 2: Grokster & BitTorrent | Curious Minds Podcast
The fall of Napster (see Part I of this series) has left a vacuum in the world of file sharing - and as the saying goes, the Internet abhors vacuum... Various File Sharing programs such as Gnutella, K...Show More
The History of File Sharing, Part 2: Grokster & BitTorrent | Curious Minds Podcast
38:57 | Nov 16th, 2016
9) The History of File Sharing, Part 1 (of 2): The Rise & Fall of Napster | Curious Minds Podcast
Napster, a revolutionary Peer-to-Peer file sharing software, was launched in 1999 - and forever changed the media world. In this episode, we'll tell the story of Sean Fanning and Sean Parker, its crea...Show More
10) Heroes Of Podcasting #5: Aaron Mahnke, Lore Podcast | Curious Minds Podcast
Heroes of Podcasting: An interview with Aaron Mahnke about the role of storytelling in podcasting, his inspirations and how he started Lore.
Heroes Of Podcasting #5: Aaron Mahnke, Lore Podcast | Curious Minds Podcast
24:00 | Oct 4th, 2016