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Abstract: 
For decades, programming was the way through which we told machines what to do, but modern AI techniques promise new ways of creating software directly from data and natural language. But programming has a number of advantages that have enabled us to build reliable large scale computing infrastructure. In this presentation, I explain some new approaches to learn from data while preserving some of the benefits of programming, and some of their applications in domains ranging from robotics to computational biology.