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  <psc:chapter start="54:22" title="PhD in Waterloo: Writing papers outside his main research area" />
  <psc:chapter start="55:51" title="Accidentally seeking a political asylum in Canada! The Story" />
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  <psc:chapter start="1:23:14" title="Thoughts on Diversity in CS/STEM: 50% of his PhD students have been women" />
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  <psc:chapter start="1:29:31" title="Thank you and Ending" />
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    <itunes:title>Rada Mihalcea Interview</itunes:title>
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  <psc:chapter start="27:47" title="Going to the National Math Olympiad in Romania, 1980s" />
  <psc:chapter start="29:36" title="Languages she learnt at school, with friends, and at home" />
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  <psc:chapter start="33:09" title="First Encounters with Tech" />
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  <psc:chapter start="46:00" title="The advantage of having the same cohorts at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca" />
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    <itunes:title>Ion Stoica Interview</itunes:title>
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  <psc:chapter start="16:46" title="Rada Mihalcea: Lack of Money, and Family treasure hunt to find money for food and essentials. And a Collective Bank among Parents’ Colleagues" />
  <psc:chapter start="19:49" title="Ion Stoica: Centralized assignment of jobs in Communist Romania" />
  <psc:chapter start="22:17" title="Act 3 – Communist Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and The “Folders”, 1960s, 70s, and 80s" />
  <psc:chapter start="22:18" title="Ion Stoica: Choosing Physics vs. Computer Science" />
  <psc:chapter start="23:38" title="Rada Mihalcea: &quot;The Government blacklisted many members of my family&quot;" />
  <psc:chapter start="26:40" title="Ion Stoica: &quot;The Communist Party tried to recruit me&quot;" />
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  <psc:chapter start="28:49" title="Ion Stoica on the Exam system" />
  <psc:chapter start="31:53" title="Rada Mihalcea on the Exam system" />
  <psc:chapter start="33:56" title="Act 5 – Studying in School and College, 1970s, 80s, and 90s" />
  <psc:chapter start="33:57" title="Rada Mihalcea: Studying at home in candlelight" />
  <psc:chapter start="35:12" title="Ion Stoica: MIlitary service and colleges" />
  <psc:chapter start="37:04" title="Rada Mihalcea: Entrance Exams into Universities, 1990s" />
  <psc:chapter start="40:42" title="Rada Mihalcea: Girls and Women in STEM, 1980s and 90s" />
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  <psc:chapter start="42:30" title="Ion Stoica: The beginnings of discontent in Romania" />
  <psc:chapter start="43:12" title="Rada Mihalcea: Revolution was a long time coming" />
  <psc:chapter start="45:31" title="Ion Stoica: Life, and Tech Industry, after the 1989 Revolution" />
  <psc:chapter start="47:26" title="Rada Mihalcea: Life after the 1989 Revolution" />
  <psc:chapter start="51:34" title="Act 7 – First Encounters with Technology, 1970s-90s" />
  <psc:chapter start="51:35" title="Rada Mihalcea: Pen and Paper Computer Science" />
  <psc:chapter start="53:55" title="Ion Stoica: Punched cards disappeared quickly" />
  <psc:chapter start="56:03" title="Act 8 – Languages, 1960s-90s" />
  <psc:chapter start="56:04" title="Rada Mihalcea: Languages in School, Street, Home" />
  <psc:chapter start="57:45" title="Ion Stoica: Languages in School, Street, Home" />
  <psc:chapter start="59:03" title="Act 9 – Immigrant to the US, mid-1990s" />
  <psc:chapter start="59:04" title="Ion Stoica: Immigrating in 1994 for a PhD at Old Dominion University" />
  <psc:chapter start="59:34" title="Rada Mihalcea: “A mistake”, a chance sequence of events that led her to apply to the US." />
  <psc:chapter start="1:03:05" title="Act 10 – Links to Homeland Romania today" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:03:06" title="Ion Stoica: Giving back" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:04:47" title="Rada Mihalcea: Giving back more to Romania from the US. Working with Romanian government to create the Romanian equivalent of the US PECASE Award" />
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    <itunes:title>Regina Barzilay Interview</itunes:title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Episode 30: Interview with Regina Barzilay, Professor at MIT in the EECS Department, and a faculty at the MIT Jameel Clinic. Double immigrant from Moldova (USSR) to Israel (in 1990), and then Israel to US (1997). Breast cancer survivor. Winner of MacArthur Fellowship or “Genius Grant” 2017, AAAI Fellow, and first recipient of $1M AAAI Squirrel Award 2020 for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity.  ]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>Episode 30: Interview with Regina Barzilay, Professor at MIT in the EECS Department, and a faculty at the MIT Jameel Clinic. Double immigrant from Moldova (USSR) to Israel (in 1990), and then Israel to US (1997). Breast cancer survivor. Winner of MacArthur Fellowship or “Genius Grant” 2017, AAAI Fellow, and first recipient of $1M AAAI Squirrel Award 2020 for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. </p>]]></description>
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  <psc:chapter start="8:26" title="How Anti-Semitism was built into the educational and cultural system in Chisinau, Moldova" />
  <psc:chapter start="18:11" title="Languages" />
  <psc:chapter start="20:57" title="Political changes making a mess of life, 1980s" />
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  <psc:chapter start="31:17" title="Re-starting life as an immigrant in Israel" />
  <psc:chapter start="34:41" title="Act 3 – Re-starting University, in Israel, 1990" />
  <psc:chapter start="38:15" title="Discovering Natural Language Processing by forced random choice" />
  <psc:chapter start="43:15" title="Love for travel! Story of the Madrid Conference trip, and not knowing English" />
  <psc:chapter start="48:05" title="Act 4 – Second Immigration: As a Housewife from Israel to US, 1997" />
  <psc:chapter start="51:01" title="Multiple Stories on—Differences between 1st &amp; 2nd immigrations: Moldova to Israel, vs. Israel to US" />
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  <psc:chapter start="1:01:57" title="Act 6 – Shocking Breast Cancer Diagnosis and how it changed her life and career, 2014" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:16:58" title="Act 7 – Retrospective and Perspective" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:16:58" title="Dealing with Failures and Rejections" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:21:14" title="Dealing with Impostor Syndrome" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:23:42" title="Alternate Realities" />
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    <itunes:title>Moshe Vardi Interview</itunes:title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Episode 29: Interview with Moshe Vardi. Professor of Computer Science at Rice University. Winner of Gödel Prize (2000), and Knuth Prize (2021). ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, AMS Fellow, EATCS Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow. Member of NAE, NAS, and EAS. Topics include: Moshe's childhood and college years in Israel, Fighting in two of Israel's wars (1970s, 1980s), Computing Revolution in the 1960s and 70s, Comparing Industry vs. Academia, and A clarion call to the Computing Comm...]]></itunes:summary>
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  <psc:chapter start="5:43" title="Act 1 - Idyllic childhood in a Kibbutz in Carmel Hills, Israel. 1950s and 1960s" />
  <psc:chapter start="20:22" title="Almost becoming a Rabbi instead of a scientist..." />
  <psc:chapter start="24:00" title="Act 2 - Fighting in multiple wars in the Israeli Army, 1970s and 1980s" />
  <psc:chapter start="29:57" title="Act 3 - Computing in the 1970s, and Entering University (Bar-Ilan University) to study Physics (major) and a minor in Computer Science. 1970s" />
  <psc:chapter start="35:03" title="When punchcards went obsolete..." />
  <psc:chapter start="38:39" title="Act 4 - Starting Research, late 1970s. Language, and state of CS research in Israel" />
  <psc:chapter start="48:52" title="Act 5 -  Moving to US for a Postdoc, 1981. Cultural Differences between Israelis and Americans" />
  <psc:chapter start="54:00" title="Act 6 - The extinct workplace: The industrial research lab. IBM Research, 1984-93. And moving to Rice University, 1993" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:00:09" title="Act 7 - Is the Tech Industry today, like the Tobacco Industry, the &quot;Evil Empire&quot;?" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:13:57" title="Act 8 - Retrospective and Perspective" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:16:11" title="Hypothetical question: Had he grown up in the US completely, would his life and career have been different?" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:20:50" title="Parents - Hungarian Holocaust Survivors" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:22:17" title="Act 9 - Ideas on Improving Diversity in Computer Science" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:32:48" title="Act 10 - Moshe’s call for thinking about the impact of computing on society" />
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    <itunes:duration>6035</itunes:duration>
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    <itunes:title>Tal Rabin Interview</itunes:title>
    <title>Tal Rabin Interview</title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Episode 28: Interview with Tal Rabin, Prof CIS at Univ. Pennsylvania, and Head of Research at Algorand Foundation (blockchain). Ranked by Business Insider (2014) as #4 on List of "22 Most Powerful  Women Engineers in World". Ranked by Forbes (2018)  among "The World's Top 50 Women In Tech". ACM Fellow, IACR Fellow. Founder of "Women in Theory" Conference. Immigrant from Israel in 1994. ]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>Episode 28: Interview with Tal Rabin, Prof CIS at Univ. Pennsylvania, and Head of Research at Algorand Foundation (blockchain). Ranked by Business Insider (2014) as #4 on List of &quot;22 Most Powerful  Women Engineers in World&quot;. Ranked by Forbes (2018)  among &quot;The World&apos;s Top 50 Women In Tech&quot;. ACM Fellow, IACR Fellow. Founder of &quot;Women in Theory&quot; Conference. Immigrant from Israel in 1994.</p>]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 04:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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  <psc:chapter start="3:04" title="Biography" />
  <psc:chapter start="6:24" title="Early Childhood and Schooling, 1960s and 70s" />
  <psc:chapter start="10:36" title="Her Mother, a lawyer, as her role model" />
  <psc:chapter start="16:20" title="What languages do you think in?" />
  <psc:chapter start="21:53" title="Going to University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), 1980s" />
  <psc:chapter start="25:18" title="An officer in the Israeli Army, and Serving in the Lebanon War and Intifada, early to mid 1980s" />
  <psc:chapter start="32:35" title="Getting into Research, 1980s and 90s" />
  <psc:chapter start="38:17" title="Women and Diversity: Her observations of women around her in STEM/Tech" />
  <psc:chapter start="46:44" title="Immigrating to US. Always wanting to return to Israel. 1994" />
  <psc:chapter start="54:42" title="A researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1996-2019" />
  <psc:chapter start="56:17" title="What should research labs become? The changing face of research labs from 1996 to 2019" />
  <psc:chapter start="59:37" title="Why leave IBM Research for academia? 2019-Present" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:03:20" title="Outreach efforts: Why she started the “Women in Theory” Group/Conference/Workshop (and Network)" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:06:53" title="Retrospectives and Perspectives" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:07:53" title="Dealing with Failures and Rejections" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:09:07" title="Dealing with Impostor Syndrome" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:11:16" title="When some compare her to her father Michael O. Rabin" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:14:25" title="If you grew up in the US, would have life and career been different? (All else being equal) " />
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    <title>From Israel</title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Episode 27: Three distinguished technologists share their experiences of growing up in Israel, of immigrating reluctantly to the US, of fighting in wars, and differences in culture. Three guests who include a Gödel Prize winner, 2 ACM Fellows, 2 AAAI Fellows, 2 AAAS Fellows,  a MacArthur (Genius) Grant winner, and a cancer survivor. Featuring: Tal Rabin (Prof, UPenn and Algorand Foundation), Moshe Vardi (Prof, Rice U.), Regina Barzilay (Prof, MIT). Topics include: Kibbutz upbringing, anc...]]></itunes:summary>
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  <psc:chapter start="14:53" title="Regina Barzilay: Immigrating from Moldova to Israel, and a Kibbutz" />
  <psc:chapter start="18:27" title="Moshe Vardi: First 13 years of life in a Kibbutz" />
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  <psc:chapter start="30:20" title="Tal Rabin - Influence of her Mother" />
  <psc:chapter start="34:55" title="Regina Barzilay - Immigrant Jobs in Israel in 1990" />
  <psc:chapter start="36:14" title="Moshe Vardi - Almost becoming a Rabbi" />
  <psc:chapter start="39:00" title="Act 3 - Persecution" />
  <psc:chapter start="39:28" title="Moshe Vardi - Parents in Hungarian Holocaust" />
  <psc:chapter start="40:42" title="Regina Barzilay - Systematic Anti-Semitism in Moldova (USSR System)" />
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  <psc:chapter start="50:10" title="Moshe Vardi - On the frontlines of 2 wars" />
  <psc:chapter start="55:49" title="Tal Rabin - An Officer in the Israeli Army" />
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  <psc:chapter start="1:03:47" title="Tal Rabin - On language " />
  <psc:chapter start="1:06:24" title="Moshe Vardi - On language and Israeli interaction styles" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:12:10" title="Regina Barzilay - On language and foreigner accents" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:22:34" title="Act 6 - The Reluctant Immigrants" />
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  <psc:chapter start="1:27:15" title="Moshe Vardi - And his Relationship" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:28:24" title="Regina Barzilay - The Housewife Programmer" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:30:55" title="Act 7 - It’s a Chance I Started This Research " />
  <psc:chapter start="1:31:38" title="Tal Rabin - A Random Problem from her advisor" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:34:49" title="Regina Barzilay - Forced to do a thesis" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:37:58" title="Moshe Vardi - A Random Paper in a Seminar" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:40:26" title="Act 8 - Computing in 1960s, 70s, and 80s" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:40:56" title="Moshe Vardi - When Punched Cards became obsolete" />
  <psc:chapter start="1:46:19" title="Tal Rabin - Email in 1980 was Monitored! And doing Computer Science on Pen and Paper." />
  <psc:chapter start="1:50:09" title="Act 9 - Adversity, Cancer. Regina Barzilay." />
  <psc:chapter start="2:05:21" title="Act 10 - Impostor Syndrome and Comparisons" />
  <psc:chapter start="2:06:16" title="Regina Barzilay - A Most Unique Philosophy for Impostor Syndrome " />
  <psc:chapter start="2:08:22" title="Tal Rabin - Her Famous Father" />
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  <psc:chapter start="2:13:40" title="Tal Rabin" />
  <psc:chapter start="2:14:50" title="Moshe Vardi" />
  <psc:chapter start="2:19:34" title="Regina Barzilay" />
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    <itunes:title>Pratima Rao Gluckman Interview</itunes:title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Episode 26: Technologist and Author of book “Nevertheless, She Persisted: True Stories of Women Leaders in Tech”. Discussion of her immigration journey from India/Instrumentation Engineering/cricket to US/Computer Science/STEM. And a discussion of how her book came about. And of key themes in the book. ]]></itunes:summary>
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  <psc:chapter start="9:48" title="Thanaweya Amma: Egypt Univ Entrance, 1976" />
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  <psc:chapter start="1:02:18" title="&quot;The Starbucks Test&quot;. East Coast vs. West Coast (in the US)." />
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Episode 6. Interview with Rico Malvar, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. US National Academy of Engineering Member, and IEEE Fellow. Formerly: Managing Director of Microsoft Research, Chief Scientist for Microsoft Research. Also former Professor in Brazil. Twice immigrant from Brazil to US, in 1980s (PhD) and 1990s (work). ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Episode 4. Interview with Dejan Milojicic, Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs. IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist. Leader in the Cloud Computing and Middleware Systems community. Immigrant from Yugoslavia to Germany for PhD and then to  US for work in the mid 1990s. ]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>Episode 4. Interview with Dejan Milojicic, Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs. IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist. Leader in the Cloud Computing and Middleware Systems community. Immigrant from Yugoslavia to Germany for PhD and then to  US for work in the mid 1990s.</p>]]></description>
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