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Computing Up
Hosted by Dave Ackley · technology · EN
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Conversations about computation writ large, with Michael Littman and Dave Ackley.
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Who hosts Computing Up?
Computing Up is hosted by Dave Ackley. The show has published 79 episodes to date.
What has Computing Up covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Benjamin J. Kuipers: On Space and Time and GOFAI - 78th Conversation" (2 November 2025, 73 minutes), "Efficiency, Resilience, & Robustness With Moshe Vardi - 77th Conversation" (26 July 2025, 65 minutes), and "Computing Then And Now with Joy Lisi Rankin - 76th Conversation" (27 April 2025, 58 minutes).
How often does Computing Up publish?
Computing Up publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 58 minutes across 79 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Computing Up?
Booking probability for Computing Up is 42%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Computing Up requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Computing Up's contact route on record: verified email.
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About the host
Dave Ackley hosts Computing Up, a technology podcast with 79 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Jul 26, 20251h 5mS1Moshe Vardi ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ), the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, and a multi-award-winning force in theoretical computer science, joins Michael and...
Apr 27, 202558 minS1Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ), an author, historian, and academic, joins Michael and Dave in a fast conversation about the history of computing and its systemic biases from the '60s to the techbros of today...
Dec 1, 202449 minS1Cognitive scientist and psychologist Professor Steve Sloman of Brown University ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ) joins Michael and Dave in a fun romp through connectionism, collective cognition, the illusion of understanding, and much...
Jun 23, 20241h 2mS1Manon Revel ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ), an Employee Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, joins Michael and Dave for a conversation about the past, present, and future of democracy, and...
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Mar 2, 202456 minS1Martha White, associate professor of Computing Science at University of Alberta ( 🔗 , 🔗 ) joins Michael and Dave in a conversation about AI, system prediction and control, the power of sparse representations, and many...
Dec 31, 202355 minS1Computer scientist Rich Sutton, FRS ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ), a quiet giant of machine learning, joins Michael and Dave in a sprawling conversation touching on reinforcement learning, a hopeful view of AI, the importance of...
Nov 28, 20231h 20mS1Michael interviews Dave about his recent video ( YouTube ) on a 'theory of everything'. The conversation begins with Michael praising Dave for finally doing some theory, and descends from there.
Episode #70
Oren Etzioni All Over - 70th Conversation
Oct 22, 202353 minS1Oren Etzioni, founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at University of Washington, ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ) joins Michael and Dave in a conversation that ranges...
Sep 2, 202359 minS1Jonathan Frankle, the new Chief Scientist - Neural Networks at Databricks ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ) , joins Michael and Dave in a fast conversation about topics ranging from AI risks and fairness to the problems of Computer...
Episode #68
Love Hate Writing - 68th Conversation
Jul 2, 20231 hourS1Michael and Dave talk about their love and hate relationships with writing, in the context of Dave's foray into publishing "Companionate Caring" and Michael's upcoming MIT Press book "Code to Joy" . (This conversation...
Jun 8, 20231h 3mS1Michael and Dave catch up on where the hell they've been for the last couple months. (Mostly it's about busy, but Dave wants to blame everything on AI.)
Episode #66
Michael Levin TAMEs Life - 66th Conversation
Mar 5, 20231h 3mS1Michael Levin ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ) is the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, and Distinguished Professor of Biology and Vannevar Bush Chair, among several other roles. In this episode he talks with...
Feb 18, 202352 minS1Cynthia Rudin, the Earl D. McLean, Jr. Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistical Science, Mathematics,and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ), joins...
Jan 8, 202356 minS1Vukosi Marivate, Associate Professor of Computer Science and ABSA UP Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ), joins Michael and Dave for a discussion of AI and machine learning research...
Nov 5, 202249 minS1Andrew Davison is Professor of Robot Vision ( 🔗 ) at Imperial College London, and leads the Dyson Robotics Laboratory ( 🔗 ). Andrew invented the SLAM algorithm for robot mapping and navigation, and as this fast...
Episode #62
John Twelve Hawks - 62nd Conversation
Oct 2, 202249 minS1Reclusive New York Times best-selling author John Twelve Hawks ( 🔗 , 🔗 , 🔗 ) joins Michael and Dave to discuss problems of the world today and possibilities of the world tomorrow -- including AI risks, technological...
Sep 5, 202251 minS1Peter Norvig 🔗 , who literally (co)wrote the book 🔗 on Artificial Intelligence in the 1990s, talks with Michael and Dave about how the field has changed over the years, AI fairness and ethics, what is a symbol, and...
Aug 1, 202254 minS1Oriel FeldmanHall, Brown University assistant professor and director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab ( 🔗 , 🔗 ), joins Michael and Dave in a wide-ranging discussion starting with what reinforcement...
Episode #59
Agency IoT Loyalty - 59th Conversation
Jul 1, 20221h 3mS1Michael and Dave tackle the big questions and settle two of them: Is Agency A Zero Sum Game? Why Do (Internet of) Things Suck? How Can We Turn Computation Away From Centralization? [Image of ancient Philips Hue...
Recent guests
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Moshe Vardi
Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering, Rice University
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Rich Sutton
A.M. Turing Award Winner, Mexico Missions and Beyond
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Oren Etzioni
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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Michael Levin
corporate governance expert and host of The Shareholder Primacy Podcast, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University
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