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Machine Learning and Crowdsourcing
Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research New England—in association with Serge Belongie of the University of California, San Diego; Ce Liu of Microsoft Research New England; George Pierrakos of University of California, Berkeley; Ohad Shamir of…
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Welcome to Microsoft Research India
P. Anandan, managing director of Microsoft Research India, gives an overview of Microsoft Research’s mission. The organization’s foremost goal is to advance the science in areas such as cloud computing, computer science, and computing, and…
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Designing Auction-Based Marketplaces: Research and Practice at MSR
Platform markets have two groups of users, and these have both direct and indirect network effects throughout the market as a whole. Platform markets include media markets, credit cards, dating, and video games. There are…
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Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality
Alessandro Acquisti, an economist by training and a self-described behavioral economist, explains that across history, time, and culture, people have felt the need for publicity, as well as the need for privacy. These are not…
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Economics of Privacy
Markus Mobius and Susan Athey of Harvard University discuss changes over the last five years in the way people consume online news. In the past, individuals would consume online news similarly to how they would…
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Mobile Indoor Navigation
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily find a particular store in a crowded shopping mall, or locate an office in an unfamiliar building, using just your cell phone? Feng Zhao, assistant managing director…
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Privacy: Issues and Perspectives
Moderator Ethan Zuckerman hosts a panel in Cambridge, Mass., discussing issues of human rights, as well as individual and public privacy. Difficult questions on privacy include personal privacy and marketing data, and technology and tagging…
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Advancing the State of the Art: 20th Anniversary and Beyond
At Microsoft Research, we are celebrating over 20 years of turning ideas into products that continuously improve the way people interact with technology. We advance the state of the art in computer science through exploration…
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