Episodes
Monday Jun 28, 2021
An Interview with Honorary Doctor – Henning Schulzrinne
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
The guest of the 14th episode of An Interview with Honorary Doctor podcast is Henning Schulzrinne, the Levi Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York. Schulzrinne has made fundamental and pioneering contributions to key protocols used in Internet multimedia applications. For years, he has also advised the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), for example, in his role as Chief Technology Officer. Henning Schulzrinne is an award-winning expert in the field of computer science, and he has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.
In the interview, Schulzrinne talks about his research work and describes the greatest challenges in Internet research. In the past, the biggest challenge was to make the internet technically functional. Today, the focus is especially on developing the usability of the Internet and directing the development process into a positive direction. We also get to hear what Schulzrinne’s typical workdays include and what kind of ongoing research projects he currently has. His research interest includes for example applications that support the agencies working for public safety.
An Interview with Honorary Doctor is a podcast series, in which we will get to know the honorary doctors of the 11th Doctoral Conferment Ceremony. The conversations will cover interesting stories about the life and achievements of the guests and their connections to the University of Oulu.
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
An Interview with Honorary Doctor – John McGrath
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
The guest of the 13th episode of An Interview with Honorary Doctor is Professor John Joseph McGrath, one of the world’s leading researchers of schizophrenia. Professor McGrath is the Director of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, and a conjoint Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland.
In this interview, McGrath talks about his interesting and successful research career during which he has focused on the epidemiology of schizophrenia and risk factors for psychoses. Brain research is important in studying mental disorders. According to McGrath, we can truly understand broken brain only by studying how the brain is built.
McGrath also defines more closely his philosophy on research and the qualities of a successful researcher. He emphasizes that the researcher should not fall in love with his hypotheses, as most of them are false. A good researcher, on the contrary, challenges his or her own hypotheses, avoids dogmatic thinking, and engages with outside people to gain fresh perspectives on his or her research.
An Interview with Honorary Doctor is a podcast series, in which we will get to know the honorary doctors of the 11th Doctoral Conferment Ceremony. The conversations will cover interesting stories about the life and achievements of the guests and their connections to the University of Oulu.