Social sciences
On Race and Technoculture
Where does Blackness manifest in Western technoculture? Technoculture is our modern ideology; our world structured through our relationships with technology and culture. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, and never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the…
Research talk: New Future of Work Overview
Our experience in the past year with virtual events has emphasized that planning an event in the virtual world must take into account the span of attention of the audience. We are implementing a new…
Panel: Perspectives on the new future of hybrid meetings
Hybrid meetings—meetings in which there is a mix of remote and in-person participants—aren’t a new phenomenon, but the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought their opportunities and challenges to center stage. The Microsoft approach…
Panel: Monitoring for environmental equity: A hyperlocal air quality network in Chicago
Air pollution is an invisible health hazard, responsible for an estimated 10 million premature deaths annually. Pollution is also unequally distributed within cities, producing inequitable exposures that are a key environmental justice concern. This panel…
Practical tips for productivity & wellbeing: Focusing without getting exhausted
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Practical tips for productivity & wellbeing: Microproductivity as a strategy to do work in short bursts
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Technology demo: Project Eclipse: Hyperlocal air quality monitoring for cities
Project Eclipse is a full-stack solution for neighborhood scale air quality monitoring in cities. Custom low-cost, solar powered sensing hardware feeds an Azure-based data and analytics stack that then drives end user experiences for various…
Panel: Characteristics, learnings, and challenges of thriving organizations
First, Nancy Baym gives an over of the six principles of thriving organizations. Organizations of all kinds are seeking new footing as their assumptions about how they can and must function have been disrupted over…
Technology demo: Using technology to combat human trafficking
Microsoft is a founding member of Tech Against Trafficking (TAT) – a coalition of organizations working to combat human trafficking with technology. In this session, we will introduce partnerships with the Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative…
