Event
WINE 2016 and Microsoft Research
Microsoft is a sponsor and participant of the Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE) on December 11-14, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Economics
Project
ALICE
ALICE Automated Learning and Intelligence for Causation and Economics Alice is a project to direct Artificial Intelligence towards economic decision making. We are building tools that combine state-of-the-art machine learning with econometrics – the measurement…
Publication
Mathematical Foundations for Social Computing
Project
Natick
Transitioned | Project Natick seeks to understand the benefits and difficulties in deploying subsea datacenters worldwide — we designed, built, and deployed our own prototype subsea datacenter in the ocean, all in about a year.
Video
A Fast Polynomial Space Algorithm for Subset Sum
I will describe an algorithm for the subset sum problem that runs in 2^{0.86n} time and uses polynomial pace. Previously, all algorithms with running time less than 2^n used exponential space, and obtaining such a…
Event
SoCal NEGT Symposium 2016
Microsoft was a sponsor and proud to have R. Preston McAfee deliver one of the keynotes at the 2016 SoCal NEGT in Los Angeles, California. Our presenters chatted with attendees about both the application of…
Video
A Neurally-Inspired Model of Habit and its Empirical Implications
The busy human brain creates fast, low-cost habits when choices are frequent and are providing stable rewards. Using evidence from animal learning and cognitive neuroscience, we model a two-controller system in which habit and model-based…
Publication
The Illusion of Wealth and Its Reversal
Project
Understanding the Influence of Government Controlled Media: Evidence from Air Pollution in China
This project establishes several empirical facts to better understand the influence of government-controlled media in autocratic regimes. We document that government control and bias on the controversial topic of air pollution are salient; that individuals…