CS50 Podcast

Feb 12 2020 12 ep. 711

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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. This is the CS50 Podcast.

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Episode 0 - Robocalls, Facebook Passwords

Apr 12 2019 34 mins

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. Each episode focuses on (and explains!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally. This is the CS50 Podcast.

Episode 1 - Trust

Apr 22 2019 39 mins

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 Colton Ogden at Harvard University. Each episode focuses on (and explains!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally. This is the CS50 Podc

Episode 2 - Task Lists, Facial Recognition

Apr 29 2019 30 mins

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 Harvard University. Each episode focuses on (and explains!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally. This is the CS50 Podcast.

Episode 3 - Password Security, Incognito Mode

May 06 2019 30 mins

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 J. Malan and Colton Ogden at Harvard University. Each episode focuses on (and explains!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally. This is

Episode 4 - Internet Explorer, Smart Locks

May 13 2019 30 mins

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 Colton Ogden at Harvard University. Each episode focuses on (and explains!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally. This is the CS50 Podcast

Episode 5 - Ransomware, WhatsApp Spyware

May 20 2019 29 mins

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 Ogden at Harvard University. Each episode focuses on (and explains!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally. This is the CS50 Podcast.

Episode 6 - Machine Learning

Jul 10 2019 28 mins

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 Brian Yu at Harvard University. Each episode focuses on (and explains!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally. This is the CS50 Podcast.

Episode 7 - Why C?

Jul 19 2019 35 mins

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!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally. This is the CS50 Podcast.

Episode 8 - FaceApp

Jul 24 2019 23 mins

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 focuses on (and explains!) current events and news in tech and computer science more generally. This is the CS50 Podcast.

Episode 9 - Restructuring CS50

Jan 31 2020 50 mins

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 choice of end-of-term "tracks" for students, and lots of new problem sets. Hear the reasons behind those changes as well as what worked well and what didn't. The CS50 Pod