Earlier this week Microsoft Research Montreal celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with a one-day symposium: I Chose STEM. More than 200 Canadian STEM students and…
As market design theory increasingly shapes the design and operations of real-life marketplaces, it is important for designers to provide simple policy levers that practitioners can use to optimize platform objectives. In the school choice…
Many theorems in economics can be proven (and hypotheses shown to be false) with available decision algorithms. This paper assembles a few dozen classic examples from economic theory that demonstrate why CAD-based algorithms are practical,…
Harness Machine Learning to Improve People’s Lives At Microsoft, we are committed to leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to benefit people and greater society. Advances in AI can be applied to address some…
Over 13 months in 2016–17 the US Federal Communications Commission conducted an “incentive auction” to repurpose radio spectrum from broadcast television to wireless internet. In the end, the auction yielded $19.8 billion USD, $10.05 billion…
Automation, driven by technological progress, has been increasing inexorably for the past several decades. Two schools of economic thinking have for many years been engaged in a debate about the potential effects of automation on…
