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CS50 Podcast

CS50

12 episodes

The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David J. Malan and Brian Yu at Harvard University. Each episode focuses on (and explains!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 11 - Making a CS50 Fair

    · 30 min

    In this episode, David and Brian discuss the origins of the CS50 Fair, the end-of-term exhibition of final projects that capstones CS50 students' experience. Why so many balloons? Why the raffle? And how can others run…

  2. Episode 10 - Teaching Academic Honesty

    · 31 min

    In this episode, David and Brian discuss CS50's experience with matters of academic dishonesty, whereby students sometimes submit work that's not entirely their own. While the course aspires each year to reduce the…

  3. Episode 9 - Restructuring CS50

    · 50 min

    In this episode, a discussion of CS50's underlying pedagogy. David and Brian discuss changes made to CS50 at Harvard in Fall 2019, among them new-and-improved lectures, weekly quizzes, by-appointment tutorials, a…

  4. Episode 8 - FaceApp

    · 24 min

    This week's podcast: David and Brian talk about FaceApp, which uses machine learning to alter photos of people. The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David J. Malan and Brian Yu at Harvard University. Each episode…

  5. Episode 7 - Why C?

    · 36 min

    This week's podcast: David and Brian talk about why CS50 is taught (primarily) in C. The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David J. Malan and Brian Yu at Harvard University. Each episode focuses on (and explains!)…

  6. Episode 6 - Machine Learning

    · 28 min

    This week's podcast: Brian Yu joins David as co-host for the first time and the two share a discussion of a topic very much in vogue: machine learning. The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David J. Malan and…

  7. Episode 5 - Ransomware, WhatsApp Spyware

    · 29 min

    This week's podcast: the woes of ransomware (and the companies that claim to fight it), a vector for spyware injection in WhatsApp, and much more. The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David J. Malan and Colton…

  8. Episode 4 - Internet Explorer, Smart Locks

    · 31 min

    This week's podcast: a tale of how YouTube eliminated Internet Explorer 6, stories of security concerning both digital and physical keys, and much more. The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David J. Malan and…

  9. Episode 3 - Password Security, Incognito Mode

    · 31 min

    This week's podcast: just how many insecure passwords are out in the open (and which ones in particular!), new features added to Chrome's Incognito Mode, and much more. The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David…

  10. Episode 2 - Task Lists, Facial Recognition

    · 31 min

    This week's podcast: the power and simplicity of task lists and the ethical boundaries of present and future facial recognition software. The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David J. Malan and Colton Ogden at…

  11. Episode 1 - Trust

    · 39 min

    This week's podcast: trust, both why it's necessary and why we should be wary of what it may sometimes mean, especially in technology and computer science. The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David J. Malan and…

  12. Episode 0 - Robocalls, Facebook Passwords

    · 35 min

    This week's podcast: the Facebook plain-text password controversy and the new (irritating!) phenomenon of the robocall. The CS50 Podcast is hosted by CS50's own David J. Malan and Colton Ogden at Harvard University.…

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