Social sciences - Microsoft Research

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Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics

Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss, danah boyd

Johns Hopkins University Press | July 2019, Vol 86(2): pp. 449-476

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An End-to-End Conversational Style Matching Agent

Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski, Rens Hoegen, Deepali Aneja

IVA ’19 | July 2019

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Adversarial Learning for Weakly-Supervised Social Network Alignment

Chaozhuo Li, Senzhang Wang, Philip S. Yu, Yanbo Liang, Yun Liu, Zhoujun Li

AAAI | July 2019

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Higher Fidelity Systems for Online Discussion

June 26, 2019 | David Karger

My group develops systems to help people manage information and share it with others. We study both text (online discussion tools) and structured data (information visualization and management applications). Our guiding principle is that humans…

Professor David Karger giving a talk at Microsoft Research

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Measuring Professional Skill Development in U.S. Cities Using Internet Search Queries

Scott Counts, Justin Cranshaw

International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) | June 2019

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AI for Earth’s Land Cover Mapping

June 11, 2019 | Nebojsa Jojic

High-resolution land cover mapping is a process of assigning land use labels, such as “impervious surface,” or “tree canopy” to each pixel in high resolution (<1m) aerial or satellite imagery. Such maps are an essential…

Nebojsa Jojic giving a talk on Land Cover Mapping at Microsoft Research

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Rethinking Financial Inclusion: From Access to Autonomy

Srihari Hulikal Muralidhar, Claus Bossen, Jacki O'Neill

Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work | June 2019, Vol 28(3-4): pp. 511-547

David B. Martin Best Paper Award at European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2019

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Using Search Queries to Understand Health Information Needs in Africa

Rediet Abebe, Shawndra Hill, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Peter M. Small, H. Andrew Schwartz

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media | June 2019

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Maximizing Welfare in Social Networks under a Utility Driven Influence Diffusion Model

Prithu Banerjee, Wei Chen, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan

Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’2019) | June 2019

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Designing and Building Multi-Device Interfaces

May 22, 2019 | Daniel Wigdor

This talk will focus on cross-device interaction, including techniques for integrating multiple devices in knowledge work, with a focus on interaction techniques as realized in working systems. Dr. Wigdor’s team is well known for a…

Daniel Wigdor gives talk on Designing and Building Multi-Device Interfaces

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