Best Graph Database Podcasts (2025)

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Agents, MCP, and Graph Databases: Java Developers Navigate the AI Revolution (#86) 1:03:35

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The AI revolution isn't replacing Java developers. No, it's forcing us to think harder. Welcome to another episode of the Foojay Podcast! Today, we're talking about AI and Java, how it's changing the way we work, what we need to watch out for, and why understanding what's really happening matters more than ever. I recorded interviews at Devoxx and …

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Code As You Are 43:36

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In this episode of Data-powered Innovation Jam, hosts Robert Engels and Ron Tolido jam with Craig Wiley, Senior Director of AI/ML Products at Databricks and former founder of AWS SageMaker and Google Vertex AI. From Seattle’s grunge roots in Nirvana, from Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain, then going on to the evolution of AI platforms, Craig shares insi…

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Cracking the Cold Start Problem 39:57

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In this episode of Data Skeptic, we dive deep into the technical foundations of building modern recommender systems. Unlike traditional machine learning classification problems where you can simply apply XGBoost to tabular data, recommender systems require sophisticated hybrid approaches that combine multiple techniques. Our guest, Boya Xu, an assi…

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Code, Community, and Opportunity: Making Tech Accessible for Everyone (#85) 56:52

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Episode 85 of the Foojay Podcast. All info, show notes, and links are available at https://foojay.io/today/category/podcast/. What if the future of Java depends on who we invite to learn it today? In this Foojay Podcast, we're diving into something that affects all of us in the Java community: How can we inspire the next generation of developers, a…

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The Sound of Unpredictability 48:13

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What does the future of AI sound like? In this special year-end episode of Data-powered Innovation Jam, we riff on seven bold predictions for 2026, from security-first AI and multi-agent ecosystems to industry-native intelligence and even synthetic curiosity. Join hosts ex-CTO Ron Tolido and Robert Engels as they jam with thought leaders on trends …

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From pandas to Arrow: Wes McKinney on the Future of Data Infrastructure 1:22:05

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Summary In this episode of Tech on the Rocks, Kostas and Nitay sit down with Wes McKinney the creator of pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow and Ibis, and long-time leader in the Python data ecosystem. Wes walks us through his journey from building pandas in 2008 to rethinking how we represent and move columnar data with Arrow, and why Arrow is f…

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Developing Performant, Cost Efficient, and Eco-friendly Code (#84) 46:06

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In this Foojay Podcast, we're exploring a critical topic that's becoming increasingly important in our industry: developing sustainable software that is both performant and environmentally friendly. At the Devoxx and JFall conferences, I had fascinating conversations about how we as Java developers can make a real impact on both our cloud costs and…

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Designing Recommender Systems for Digital Humanities 36:48

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In this episode of Data Skeptic, we explore the fascinating intersection of recommender systems and digital humanities with guest Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, a PhD student at Graz University of Technology. Florian is working on Monasterium.net, Europe's largest online collection of historical charters, containing millions of medieval and early …

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OpenJDK Evolutions plus Tips and Tricks (#83) 47:12

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Welcome to another episode of the Foojay Podcast! Just like in the previous episode, I bring you conversations from two of Europe's premier Java conferences - Devoxx in Belgium and JFall in the Netherlands. At these conferences, I had the opportunity to speak with members of the Java community about topics ranging from the evolution of Java itself …

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Jam Francisco 53:01

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Bringing you a very special edition of the Data Powered Innovation Jam podcast, recorded live during a tech road trip through San Francisco and Silicon Valley. This episode blends the city’s musical heritage with cutting-edge innovation, exploring how creativity and technology intersect. Hosts Robert Engels, together with our ‘tech guy’ Alex Bulat …

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OpenJDK Projects (Leyden, Babylon, Panama) and TornadoVM (#82) 34:48

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In this Foojay Podcast, we're diving deep into some of the most exciting developments happening within the OpenJDK and TornadoVM projects. At the Devoxx and JFall conferences, we spoke with several speakers and visitors about some of the major themes that are shaping the future of Java development. The first guest is Moritz Halbritter from the Spri…

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DataRec Library for Reproducible in Recommend Systems 32:48

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In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, host Kyle Polich explores DataRec, a new Python library designed to bring reproducibility and standardization to recommender systems research. Guest Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino, a postdoc researcher from Politecnico di Bari, Italy, discusses the challenges of dataset management in recomm…

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Shilling Attacks on Recommender Systems 34:48

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In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, Kyle sits down with Aditya Chichani, a senior machine learning engineer at Walmart, to explore the darker side of recommendation algorithms. The conversation centers on shilling attacks—a form of manipulation where malicious actors create multiple fake profiles to game recommender system…

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Maven 4 - The Future of Java Build Automation (#81) 1:06:59

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Maven 4 is approaching its release, bringing many improvements to the build tool powering millions of Java projects. In this Foojay Podcast episode, we talk about Apache Maven 4, a significant milestone that has been years in the making. Maven has been the backbone of Java dependency management and build automation since the early 2000s; however, t…

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Music Playlist Recommendations 52:29

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In this episode, Rebecca Salganik, a PhD student at the University of Rochester with a background in vocal performance and composition, discusses her research on fairness in music recommendation systems. She explores three key types of fairness—group, individual, and counterfactual—and examines how algorithms create challenges like popularity bias …

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Mix, Master & Mesh 50:59

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In this genre-blending episode of Data Powered Innovation Jam, hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Arne Rossman welcome Stephen Brobst, CTO of Ab Initio and former CTO of Terradata, for a deep dive into the art of mixing data, AI, and music. From punk rock roots and stage-diving legends to the reinvention of enterprise data platforms, Stephen shar…

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AI4Devs Interviews - Part 2 (#80) 1:06:28

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This is part 2 of the interviews recorded on September 19th, 2025, at the first AI4Devs Conference (https://amsterdam.ai4devs.io/) in Amsterdam. In Part 1, we explored many AI-related topics as libraries, security, infrastructure, use cases, and more. In this second part, we'll dive into data science, tools for better AI development, Java in the cl…

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Bypassing the Popularity Bias 34:33

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Sustainable Recommender Systems for Tourism 38:02

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In this episode, we speak with Ashmi Banerjee, a doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Munich, about her pioneering research on AI-powered recommender systems in tourism. Ashmi illuminates how these systems can address exposure bias while promoting more sustainable tourism practices through innovative approaches to data acquisition and …

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Supply Chain Reaction 45:11

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Welcome to the latest episode of the Data Powered Innovation Jam, where data meets disco and AI grooves with funk. After a long summer break, our hosts return with fresh stories, musical nostalgia, and cutting-edge insights into the world of supply chain superintelligence. In this vibrant and eclectic episode, we’re joined by Guillaume Waline, Seni…

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AI4Devs Interviews - Part 1 (#79) 1:06:35

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On September 19th, 2025, the first AI4Devs conference (https://amsterdam.ai4devs.io/) took place in Amsterdam. I grabbed my camera and microphone to talk with speakers and attendees about the revolution in AI-powered coding and application development. In this first part, we'll explore Spring libraries, security, infrastructure and scaling, real-wo…

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Interpretable Real Estate Recommendations 32:57

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In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, host Kyle Polich interviews Dr. Kunal Mukherjee, a postdoctoral research associate at Virginia Tech, about the paper "Z-REx: Human-Interpretable GNN Explanations for Real Estate Recommendations" The discussion explores how the post-COVID real estate landscape has created a need for bette…

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Welcome to OpenJDK 25! (#78) 1:01:26

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Episode 78 of the Foojay Podcast. All info, show notes, and links are available at https://foojay.io/today/category/podcast/. We're excited to present the first episode of the Foojay Podcast's fifth season, marking the release of OpenJDK 25! For the first time, an OpenJDK release is aligned with the year, and we can welcome release 25 in 2025. As u…

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Why Am I Seeing This? 49:36

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In this episode of Data Skeptic, we explore the challenges of studying social media recommender systems when exposure data isn't accessible. Our guests Sabrina Guidotti, Gregor Donabauer, and Dimitri Ognibene introduce their innovative "recommender neutral user model" for inferring the influence of opaque algorithms.…

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Navigating the Future of AI and Data Infrastructure with Bauplan 58:45

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Summary In this conversation, the founders of Bauplan, Jacopo and Ciro, share their extensive backgrounds in AI and data infrastructure, discussing the evolution of NLP and the challenges faced in the industry. They highlight the importance of data pipelines in AI effectiveness and the complexities of building data infrastructure. The discussion al…

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Eco-aware GNN Recommenders 44:42

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In this episode of Data Skeptic, we dive into eco-friendly AI with Antonio Purificato, a PhD student from Sapienza University of Rome. Antonio discusses his research on "EcoAware Graph Neural Networks for Sustainable Recommendations" and explores how we can measure and reduce the environmental impact of recommender systems without sacrificing perfo…

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Email as a Knowledge Graph: Micro CEO Brett on Rebuilding CRM at the Inbox 1:01:28

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Summary Brett — founder & CEO of Micro — joins Nitay and Kostas to share how he’s turning email into a knowledge graph and rebuilding CRM right inside the inbox. He traces a path from Google’s M&A and Allo product team to Clearbit and Launch House, then digs into why most “inbox zero” workflows fail, how interoperability and AI agents shift power t…

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Networks and Recommender Systems 17:45

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Kyle reveals the next season's topic will be "Recommender Systems". Asaf shares insights on how network science contributes to the recommender system field.

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Community, Compilers & the Rust Story with Steve Klabnik 59:02

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Summary Steve Klabnik has spent the last 15 years shaping how developers write code—from teaching Ruby on Rails to stewarding Rust’s explosive growth. In this wide-ranging conversation, Steve joins Kostas and Nitay to unpack the forces behind Rust’s rise and the blueprint for developer-first tooling. From Rails to Rust: How a web-framework luminary…

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DevBcn Report, Part 2 – Spanish Knowledge Sharing (#77) 14:41

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This is the first Foojay podcast in Spanish. It's also the shortest one and the final of season 4 ;-) Jonathan Vila "highjacked" the microphone from Geertjan Wielenga (See episode 76, https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-76-devbcn-report-part-1-learn-from-the-community/) during the DevBcn conference in Barcelona and interviewed a few of the parti…

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Network of Past Guests Collaborations 34:10

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Kyle and Asaf discuss a project in which we link former guests of the podcast based on their co-authorship of academic papers.

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DevBcn Report, Part 1 – Learn from the Community (#76) 1:12:03

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In early July, the DevBcn conference in Barcelona featured a diverse lineup of speakers, covering topics across multiple technology domains. Geertjan Wielenga took the camera and microphone with him to Spain. Together with Nacho Cougil and Jonathan Vila, two of the organizers, he spoke with many visitors about what they like most in Java, how AI in…

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JCON Report, Part 4 - Tips and Tricks for Java Devs (#75) 1:02:04

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This is the final part of the JCON 2025 interviews with a lot of tips and tricks! In the three previous podcasts, we featured interviews from the JCON conference on "Being a better Java developer," "Evolutions in Java," and "How to use AI with Java." However, we talked to many more people during the conference, so this podcast focuses on tips and t…

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The Network Diversion Problem 46:14

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In this episode, Professor Pål Grønås Drange from the University of Bergen, introduces the field of Parameterized Complexity - a powerful framework for tackling hard computational problems by focusing on specific structural aspects of the input. This framework allows researchers to solve NP-complete problems more efficiently when certain parameters…

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The Hour of (data) Power 47:40

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Ready for your Hour of (Data) Power with some Radioactive and Electric Feel thrown in? Ok, so hang tight, get your coffee or lemonade (depending on how your summer looks like!), as we bring you a double whammy from your newest Data-powered Innovation Jam to celebrate the anniversary launch of the 10th edition of the Data Powered Innovation Review. …

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Complex Dynamic in Networks 56:00

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In this episode, we learn why simply analyzing the structure of a network is not enough, and how the dynamics - the actual mechanisms of interaction between components - can drastically change how information or influence spreads. Our guest, Professor Baruch Barzel of Bar-Ilan University, is a leading researcher in network dynamics and complex syst…

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JCON Report, Part 3 - AI, ChatGPT, LLM, ML, RAG, MCP, GenAI, and more! (#74) 50:29

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Let's have an AI Bingo and talk about ChatGPT, LLM, ML, RAG, MCP, GenAI, and more! This is part 3 of the interviews recorded at the JCON conference in May. In the previous parts, you learned more about how to be a better Java developer and how Java has evolved and continues to evolve. Of course, Artificial Intelligence and large language models wer…

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Github Network Analysis 36:46

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In this episode we'll discuss how to use Github data as a network to extract insights about teamwork. Our guest, Gabriel Ramirez, manager of the notifications team at GitHub, will show how to apply network analysis to better understand and improve collaboration within his engineering team by analyzing GitHub metadata - such as pull requests, issues…

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Networks and Complexity 17:49

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In this episode, Kyle does an overview of the intersection of graph theory and computational complexity theory. In complexity theory, we are about the runtime of an algorithm based on its input size. For many graph problems, the interesting questions we want to ask take longer and longer to answer! This episode provides the fundamental vocabulary a…

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JCON Report, Part 2 – Evolutions in the Java Language and Runtime (#73) 47:26

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In the second part of our JCON interviews, recorded at the conference in May, we focuses on general evolutions within the Java world and how they influence how we write code and develop applications. We take a look back at the history of Java, discuss new features in the latest release, how Java evolves with OpenJDK projects and JEPS, how Java is u…

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How Cloudflare Reinvents Serverless at Global Scale with Josh Howard 52:19

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Summary Josh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins Kostas and Nitay to discuss Cloudflare's innovative serverless platform, Durable Objects, and Workers. Learn how Cloudflare enables developers to build stateful applications with global scale, consistency, and simplicity at the network edge. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Backgro…

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Every doc you take 43:30

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From punk rock to process automation, from Blondie to BSON — it’s a genre-defying episode of the Data-Powered Innovation Jam where we grab a virtual bench in Central Park with Andrew Davidson, SVP of Products at MongoDB, and let the data conversation run wild. What follows is an improvisational jam session on the evolution of data, the art of distr…

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JCON Report, Part 1 - Grow your career, public speaking, 30 years of Java, greener coding,... (#72) 53:43

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On May 13th and 14th, Foojay attended the JCON conference in Köln, Germany, where we did over 30 live-stream interviews. In this episode, we present to you the first set of these interviews, in which we focus on celebrating 30 years of Java, how you can grow your career, become a public speaker and writer, make your code more green, a bit of AI (of…

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Graphs for Causal AI 41:00

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How to build artificial intelligence systems that understand cause and effect, moving beyond simple correlations? As we all know, correlation is not causation. "Spurious correlations" can show, for example, how rising ice cream sales might statistically link to more drownings, not because one causes the other, but due to an unobserved common cause …

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The six pistols of technology trends 1:18:45

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Ready for the remix? You might have already listened to one of the most recent episodes of the Cloud Realities podcast, where six dynamic voices from two podcast teams came together to unpack Capgemini’s TechnoVision 2025. From infrastructure and applications to collaboration, user experience, automation, and — naturally — a heavy dose of data and …

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Power Networks 41:50

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Unveiling Graph Datasets 44:12

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Business Physics: How Brand, Pricing, and Product Design Define Success with Erik Swan 1:01:31

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Summary In this episode, Erik reflects on his long and storied tech career—from the days of punch cards to founding multiple startups, including a stint at Splunk. At 61, he offers a unique perspective on how the industry has evolved and shares candid insights into what it takes to build a successful company. He discusses the evolution from buildin…

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Models on the dance floor 43:10

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What happens when Professor Erik Proper of the Technical University of Vienna teams up with the ever-inquisitive ‘Dr. Bob’ Robert Engels – modestly supported by co-hosts Weiwei Feng and Ron Tolido - to discuss AI, models, semantics, ontologies, and context? A true PhD Fest? Or a practical exploration of the synergies between the academic and busine…

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Celebrating 30 Years of Java with James Gosling (#71) 1:14:29

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We are celebrating Java's 30th anniversary this May! This is a very special anniversary episode of the Foojay Podcast! As we approach May 23rd, marking exactly 30 years since Java's first beta release in 1995, we're honored to present our first-ever single-guest format. But we have a very special guest for you: James Gosling, the creator of Java! J…