Best Humanistic Management Podcasts (2025)

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Ep. 99 The Miracle of the Ministry of Angels 23:45

6h ago23:45

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Episode Overview In this enlightening episode of True North Nation, Pastor Ed Snyder delves into the profound and often overlooked role of angels in our daily lives. Drawing upon scriptural references and personal anecdotes, he explores how these divine messengers serve as instruments of God's will, offering guidance, protection, and comfort to bel…

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When Rocket Science Meets DEI: Measuring Inclusion with Paolo Gaudiano 57:38

3d ago57:38

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In this episode of Culture Stew, host Maria Morukian interviews Paolo Gaudiano, a dynamic voice in the DEI space whose journey to this work is anything but traditional. With advanced degrees in aerospace engineering and neuroscience, Paolo brings a deeply analytical lens to a field often led by personal stories and emotion. As the founder and Chief…

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Reality Proves Possibility- Humanity can do better than THIS: Stuart Hart 43:50

5d ago43:50

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In this Episode of Reality Proves Possibility Stuart Hart, pioneer of Sustainable Business Research and Education is sharing his life experiences and sources of hope. He shares pathways that help us see how we can do much better than THIS.By Michael Pirson

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Ep. 98 Do Miracles Exist? 23:54

7d ago23:54

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In this powerful episode of True North Nation, Pastor Snyder takes us on an inspiring journey into the miraculous. From biblical wonders to modern-day testimonies, his own miraculous testimony, we explore the profound question: Do miracles still happen today? Are they real? Are they relevant? And more importantly, what do they reveal about the hear…

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Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP) 41:46

11d ago41:46

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Back in 2021, John and Elizabeth sat down with Brandeis string theorist Albion Lawrence to discuss cooperation versus solitary study across disciplines. They sink their teeth into the question, “Why do scientists seem to do collaboration and teamwork better than other kinds of scholars and academics?” The conversation ranges from the merits of coll…

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Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:01:55

12d ago1:01:55

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What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, psychology and psycholinguistics, Writing for the Reader’s Brain (Cambridge University Press, 2025) provides a practical, how-to guide on how to write for your reader. It introd…

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Reality Proves Possibility- Humanity can do better than THIS: Sandra Waddock 48:05

14d ago48:05

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This Episode of RPP explores the work of Sandra Waddock and her perspective on how Humanity can collectively do better than THIS.By Michael Pirson

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Facts Don’t Change Minds. People Do. A Conversation with JonRobert ‘Tat’ Tartaglione 55:23

19d ago55:23

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In this episode of Culture Stew, Maria sits down with psychologist and behavioral scientist JonRobert “Tat” Tartaglione to explore the complexities of human behavior, persuasion, and the psychology behind social change. Tat shares how his winding path from philosophy major to behavioral scientist was driven by a deep curiosity about human nature. H…

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The World of Academic Publishing: A Conversation with Robert Dreesen 48:06

19d ago48:06

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How do academic books get published? How do scholars turn dissertations and articles into the books we love? How does academic publishing compare to the world of trade publishing? This week, we speak with Robert Dreesen, a seasoned publishing professional with over 30 years of experience in the industry. Dreesen has worked in trade publishing at Pe…

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The Power of the Pride – Women, Leadership, and the Future of Work 17:25

1M ago17:25

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Welcome back to Culture Stew! In this special Women's History Month episode, your host, Maria Morukian, reflects on the strength of women in leadership, the power of collaboration, and why we need to rethink the way we define workplace success. Inspired by a conversation with her daughter, Maria shares an insightful analogy comparing the cooperativ…

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Project Management for Researchers 1:06:57

1M ago1:06:57

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Our book is: Project Management for Researchers: A Practical, Stress-Free Guide to Getting Organized (U Michigan Press, 2025), by Dr. Shiri Noy, which tackles the how, what, and why of project management. It offers step-by-step guidance on choosing tools and developing a personalized system that will help the reader manage and organize their resear…

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Reality Proves Possibility- Humanity can do better than THIS: Donna Hicks and Michael Pirson 46:44

2M ago46:44

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In this episode of Reality proves Possibility Michael Pirson hosts leading Dignity expert Donna Hicks of Harvard University. They explore the power and reality of dignity based conflict resolution and dignity based leadership and management.By Michael Pirson

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Reality Proves Possibility- Humanity can do better than THIS: David Sloan Wilson 30:33

2M ago30:33

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This show is about what humanity can do at its best. What we experience is part of a paradigmatic clash with reality and it is important to understand what humanity can do to survive and thrive..By Michael Pirson

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Reality Proves Possibility- Humanity can do better than THIS: Hunter Lovins and Michael Pirson 38:52

2M ago38:52

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This conversation with Hunter Lovins, a pioneer in Sustainability, Regeneration and Business with common sense, showcases how we can do better than what we experience currently.

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Key Components of a Winning Book Proposal 8:17

2M ago8:17

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In this episode of Publish My Book, we break down the key components of a strong book proposal. We discuss essential elements like a well-structured table of contents, a compelling cover letter, a carefully chosen sample chapter, and a narrative author bio that connects emotionally with acquisitions editors. We also explore the importance of a pers…

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Conquering the Peer Review Stage 7:34

2M ago7:34

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In this episode of Publish My Book, we explore the peer review process for book manuscripts. We discuss how securing an acquisitions editor’s support is the first critical step before entering peer review, where feedback can vary in depth and rigor. We share tips on suggesting reviewers, managing the often lengthy review timeline, and effectively a…

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Presenting Yourself to Acquisitions Editors 8:55

2M ago8:55

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In this episode of Publish My Book, we dive into how to approach acquisitions editors with confidence and clarity. We discuss their role in the publishing process, what they're looking for in a manuscript, and how to make a strong first impression—whether at conferences or via email. We share practical tips on tailoring your pitch, respecting their…

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Transforming Your Dissertation Into a Book 8:32

2M ago8:32

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In this episode of Publish My Book, we explore how to transform a dissertation into a compelling book. We begin by examining the key differences between the two: while a dissertation demonstrates our research abilities to advisors, a book communicates core ideas to a broader audience. We discuss how to distill our arguments, streamline dense sectio…

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Demystifying Indexing 7:37

2M ago7:37

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In this episode of Publish My Book, we explore the essential role of a well-crafted book index in academic publishing. A good index helps readers easily locate specific topics, names, or places, making your book more accessible and impactful. Avi discusses different types of indexes—such as subject, author, and sources indexes—and provides guidance…

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Understanding Open Access Publishing 7:15

2M ago7:15

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In this episode of Publish My Book, we explore open-access publishing, a model designed to make publicly funded research freely available to everyone. Unlike traditional publishing, where readers or libraries pay for access, open access requires authors or their institutions to cover upfront fees—often $4,000 to $6,000—to make their books freely ac…

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Transcending the Static: DEI in a Shifting Landscape 19:28

2M ago19:28

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In this solo episode, Maria dives into the pressing challenges facing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the wake of the new administration's executive orders. With DEI programs under increasing scrutiny and pressure, Maria discusses the broader implications for organizations in both the public and private sectors, and what they …

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These Researchers Published at TSE their Research on LMs for Flaky Tests 45:08

3M ago45:08

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Listen to this interview of Sakina Fatima, Research Fellow, University of Ottawa, Canada; and also, Taher Ghaleb, Assistant Professor, Trent University, Canada. We talk about the coauthored paper Flakify: A Black-Box, Language Model-based Predictor for Flaky Tests (TSE 2023). Taher Ghaleb : "With our RQs, it's not just a matter of there being a pro…

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How these Authors Published at TCPS their Research about Cybersecurity Challenges in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry 37:49

3M ago37:49

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Listen to this interview of Abubakar Mohammed, Manager, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, Nigeria. We talk about the coauthored paper Cybersecurity Challenges in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry: An Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) Perspective (TCPS 2022). Abubakar Mohammed : "I would put the success of the paper down to u…

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Reheated: Die Standing with Elmer Dixon 1:02:18

3M ago1:02:18

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Explore the incredible journey of Elmer Dixon, co-founder of the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party. From the turbulent 1960s to his role as a global diversity consultant, Elmer's story offers a unique perspective on the fight for racial justice. In this episode, Elmer Dixon shares his experiences as a Black Panther Party co-founder, detail…

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Timing's not Everything — It Takes Acting at the Right Moment Too 48:55

3M ago48:55

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Listen to this interview of Arjun Guha, Associate Professor, Northeastern University. We talk about his coauthored paper MultiPL-E: A Scalable and Polyglot Approach to Benchmarking Neural Code Generation (TSE 2023). Arjun Guha : "My group and our collaborating colleagues really try to pick problems carefully so that we choose a problem that we can …

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What Academia Don't Know Might Hurt Industry 43:42

3M ago43:42

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Listen to this interview of Ricardo Amaro, Senior Engineering Manager, Acquia, USA, and also a PhD Researcher, ISCTE—University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. We talk about his coauthored paper Capabilities and Practices in DevOps: A Multivocal Literature Review (TSE 2023). Ricardo Amaro : "One of the main challenges we've been experiencing in DevO…

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It Takes a Research Village: How Institutes and Network Connections Make a Research Project 52:04

3M ago52:04

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Listen to this interview of Isaac da Silva Torres, Postdoctoral Research, TU Delft, Netherlands. We talk about his coauthored paper Guidelines to Derive an e3value Business Model from a BPMN Process Model: An Experiment on Real-world Scenarios (SOSYM 2023). Isaac da Silva Torres : "I'm an industrial engineer, and I've worked in a lot of companies. …

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Small Research Goes Big: When Less Represented Topics Find Resonance across an Entire Field 51:29

3M ago51:29

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Listen to this interview of Sumon Biswas, Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University. We talk about his coauthored paper The Art and Practice of Data Science Pipelines (ICSE 2022). Sumon Biswas : "Yeah, it's true, not many people are working in software design and software architecture — at least at ICSE — and in fact, this has been an im…

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Creativity is a Creation of Collaboration 44:53

3M ago44:53

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Listen to this interview of Steffen Zschaler, Reader, King's College London, UK; and of Fiona Polack, Professor, University of Hull, UK. We talk about their coauthored paper Trustworthy Agent-based Simulation: The Case for Domain-specific Modelling Languages (SOSYM 2023). Fiona Polack : "The sort of collaborative environment that brings together re…

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Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication 1:19:35

3M ago1:19:35

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Peoples and Things host, Lee Vinsel, is joined by guest host and Peoples & Things producer, Joe Forte, Media Projects Manager with Virginia Tech Publishing, in interviewing Marshall Poe, the founder and editor of the New Books Network, the largest academic podcasting platform in the world. The trio discuss how the New Books Network came to be; how …

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Collaborative Research, not Competitive Research 43:42

3M ago43:42

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Listen to this interview of Lianglu Pan, PhD Student, and Shaanan Cohney, Senior Lecturer, and also Thuan Pham, Senior Lecturer — everyone at University of Melbourne, Australia. We talk about their coauthored paper EDEFuzz: A Web API Fuzzer for Excessive Data Exposures (ICSE 2024). Thuan Pham : "The reading pattern in our group goes something like …

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Limitations Are Not a Limitation 41:18

3M ago41:18

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Listen to this interview of Lorenzo Rossi, Research Fellow, University of Camerino, Italy. We talk about his coauthored paper A Technique for Discovering BPMN Collaboration Diagrams (SOSYM 2024). Lorenzo Rossi : "Yeah, this way of structuring the concluding remarks in this paper is a technique we often apply in our research contributions, especiall…

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Use Sequential Internal Review to Improve Your Next Submission 38:32

3M ago38:32

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Listen to this interview of Kangfeng Ye, Research Associate, University of York, UK. We talk about his coauthored paper Probabilistic Modelling and Verification Using RoboChart and PRISM (SOSYM 2022). Kangfeng Ye : "In this paper, I have four coauthors, all of them senior researchers. And when we reviewed the manuscript internally, we adopted a str…

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Your Best Defense Is Honest Offense 39:54

3M ago39:54

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Listen to this interview of Emerson Murphy-Hill, Research Scientist, Microsoft. We talk about his coauthored paper GenderMag Improves Discoverability in the Field, Especially for Women (ICSE 2024). Emerson Murphy-Hill : "Too often in papers, the authors get defensive about limitations or threats to validity. Of course, they'll state outright a limi…

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Unlock Limitations to Enable Community-Level Development of a Line of Research 39:09

3M ago39:09

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Listen to this interview of Ionut Predoaia, Research Fellow, and also, Antonio García-Domínguez, Senior Lecturer — both at the University of York, UK. We talk about their coauthored paper Streamlining the Development of Hybrid Graphical-Textual Model Editors for Domain-Specific Languages (ECMFA 2023). Antonio García-Domínguez : "I think that the li…

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Part of Your Paper Is the Conference Too 32:52

3M ago32:52

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Listen to this interview of Zejun Zhang, Research Scientist, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. We talk about her coauthored paper Hard to Read and Understand Pythonic Idioms? DeIdiom and Explain Them in Non-Idiomatic Equivalent Code (ICSE 2024). Zejun Zhang : "Following my presentation of the paper at ICSE, it was interesting. I mean, th…

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How Only a Few Paragraphs in Your Next Paper Actually Involve All of the Research Community 41:42

3M ago41:42

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Listen to this interview of Roberto Verdecchia, Assistant Professor, University of Florence, Italy; and also, Per Runeson, Professor, Lund University, Sweden. We talk about their coauthored papers Threats to Validity in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Reflection (IST 2023) and Threats to Validity in Software Engineering — hypocritical pap…

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The Introduction — Section in a Paper but also Tool for Discovering New Knowledge 42:12

3M ago42:12

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Listen to this interview of Nan Jiang, PhD candidate, and Lin Tan, Professor — both at Purdue University. We talk about their coauthored paper Impact of Code Language Models on Automated Program Repair (ICSE 2023). Lin Tan : "In my research group, the procedure in every project is to write the Introduction early — very early, in fact. It's the firs…

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Transforming Reproductive Justice: Advocating for Incarcerated Women with Dr. Carolyn Sufrin 48:04

3M ago48:04

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In this compelling episode of Culture Stew, host Maria Morukian speaks with Dr. Carolyn Sufrin, medical anthropologist, obstetrician/gynecologist, and a leading advocate for the reproductive health and rights of incarcerated women. Dr. Sufrin shares her journey from delivering babies shackled to a bed as a young resident to leading groundbreaking r…

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Define Clearly, Select Carefully, End Compellingly 38:14

3M ago38:14

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Listen to this interview of Jenny Liang, PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University. We talk about her coauthored paper A Qualitative Study on the Implementation Design Decisions of Developers (ICSE 2023). Jenny Liang : "When it comes to selecting specific results or codes, I like to think about it in terms of what was surprising. So, maybe it's not s…

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Inspired Idea turns into Sound Results: The Influence of Creativity and Teamwork on the Research 43:02

3M ago43:02

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Listen to this interview of Yun Peng, Research Associate, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; and also, Cuiyun Gao, Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. We talk about their coauthored paper Static Inference Meets Deep Learning: A Hybrid Type Inference Approach for Python (ICSE 2022). Yun Peng : "And I remember the reviewe…

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Non-Artificial Intelligence: Human Factors in Research and Publishing in Software Engineering 51:54

4M ago51:54

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Listen to this interview of Sterre van Breukelen, engineer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; and Ann Barcomb, Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Canada; and Sebastian Baltes, Full Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany; and Alexander Serebrenik, Full Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. We talk ab…

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When, Why, and How to Review the Literature 43:53

4M ago43:53

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Listen to this interview of Roberto Verdecchia, Assistant Professor, University of Florence, Italy; and also, Luís Cruz, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. We talk about their coauthored paper A systematic review of Green AI (WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2023). Luís Cruz : "Sometimes, especially in system…

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Your Community Use Their Own Language to Publish — Learn it! 41:43

4M ago41:43

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Listen to this interview of Floris Gorter, PhD student, and Cristiano Giuffrida, Associate Professor — both at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. We talk about their coauthored paper Sticky Tags: Efficient and Deterministic Spatial Memory Error Mitigation using Persistent Memory Tags (SP 2024). Cristiano Giuffrida : "But apart from applying…

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Think Security, Write Security 41:08

4M ago41:08

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Listen to this interview of Nicholas Boucher, PhD, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Cambridge University, UK. We talk about his coauthored paper Bad Characters: Imperceptible NLP Attacks (SP 2022) — and check out, too, Nicholas's presentation of the paper here. Nicholas Boucher: "Maybe what is interesting about the security domain is …

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Reheated - Humanistic Leadership: Prioritizing Human Dignity and Well Being for Better Business Results 37:20

4M ago37:20

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We are reheating one of our favorite Culture Stew episodes! If you missed this fascinating interview with Dr. Shaista Khalji from Season June 2020, take a listen. More than ever, we need leaders who are committed to treating all humans with dignity, compassion, and respect. -- Dr. Shaista Khiliji is a professor of Human and Organizational Learning …

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All of a Paper is Research, but All of the Research is not the Paper 46:11

4M ago46:11

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Listen to this interview of Alfonso de la Vega, Assistant Professor, Software Engineering and Real-Time Group, University of Cantabria, Spain. We talk about his coauthored paper FLEXMI: a generic and modular textual syntax for domain-specific modelling (SOSYM 2023). Alfonso de la Vega : "Yeah, we never really get the whole story in just the paper t…

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Topnotch Will Out — When You Persist and See It Through 42:29

4M ago42:29

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Listen to this interview of Amir Mir, PhD candidate, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; and of Sebastian Proksch, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; and also of Georgios Gousios, Head of Research, Endor Labs. We talk about their coauthored paper Type4Py: Practical Deep Similarity Learning-Based Type Inferenc…

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Researchers Influence Research — Research Influences Communication — Communication Influences Researchers 43:38

4M ago43:38

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Listen to this interview of Mathé Hertogh, PhD student, and Cristiano Giuffrida, Associate Professor — both in the Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. We talk about their coauthored paper Leaky Address Masking: Exploiting Unmasked Spectre Gadgets with Noncanonical Address Translation (SP 2024). Cristiano Giuff…

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Research Culture /ˈriːsɜːrtʃ kʌltʃər/, Noun. Knowledge as the Act of Knowing Too 53:34

4M ago53:34

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Listen to this interview of Bran Selic, President and Founder, Malina Software Corporation, Canada. We talk about publishing at ECMFA — that is, at the European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications. Bran Selic : "My experience in both industry and academia has taught me that most innovation actually comes from industry, because indu…

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