Social sciences
Microsoft Research New York City: 2012 in Review
Posted by Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New York City The inaugural year of Microsoft Research New York City has been stupendous. All of us at Microsoft are thrilled with our newest lab.…
Get Inspired by Aspiration Award Winners
The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing honors young women in high school for their computing-related achievements and interests. Get inspired by women who are Aspiration Award winners.
Bridging the Gender Gap
By 2018, there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs in the United States, yet at the current rate of job growth, only 29 percent of future computer scientists will be women. In order to…
Computational Social Science
With an increasing amount of data on every aspect of our daily activities – from what we buy, to where we travel, to who we know, and beyond – we are able to measure human…
LifeSpec: Learning the Spectrum of Urban Lifestyles
Recent years have witnessed growing availability of human behavioral data, which provides us unprecedented opportunities to gain more in depth understanding of users in both the physical world and cyber world. In this project, we…