Social sciences - Microsoft Research

Project

Intentional Meetings

Exploring how to make remote and hybrid telepresence meetings engaging, effective, adaptive, and inclusive.

Video

Redesigning Democracy in the Digital Age | DAVOS 2020

February 6, 2020 | E. Glen Weyl

From data dignity to quadratic voting, join economist and best-selling author Glen Weyl for an exploration of radical solutions to societal decision-making in the wake of unprecedented technological change. Speakers: E. Glen Weyl, Rana Foroohar…

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Publication

Semantic constraint, reading control, and the granularity of form-based expectations during semantic processing: Evidence from ERPs

Nyssa Z. Bulkes, Kiel Christianson, Darren Tanner

Neuropsychologia | February 2020, Vol 137

Publication

Platforms Throw Content Moderation at Every Problem

Fake News: Mis/Disinformation in a Digital Age (Melissa Zimdars and Kembrew McLeod, eds) | Published by MIT Press | 2020

Project

Publication

Adaptive Greedy versus Non-adaptive Greedy for Influence Maximization

Wei Chen, Binghui Peng, Grant Schoenebeck, Biaoshuai Tao

Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) | February 2020

Publication

Influence Maximization with Spontaneous User Adoption

Lichao Sun, Albert Chen, Philip S. Yu, Wei Chen

Proceedings of the 13th ACM International WSDM Conference (WSDM) | February 2020

Publication

Gradient Method for Continuous Influence Maximization with Budget-Saving Considerations

Wei Chen, Weizhong Zhang, Haoyu Zhao

Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) | February 2020

Video

Data Science Summer School 2019 – Replicating “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force”

January 30, 2020 | Emeka Mbazor, Roymil Terrero, Adnan Hoq, Harpreet Gaur, Etta Rapp, Cindy Muso, Naomi Moreira, Brenda Fried

This project replicates and extends a recent paper on racial bias in police use of force. We selected this paper because it is both widely read and also an ideal candidate for a data analysis…

Video: Data Science Summer School 2019 - Replicating

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Publication

Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems

Andrew D. Selbst, danah boyd, Sorelle Friedler, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Janet Vertesi

FAT* 2019 | January 2020

Event

Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020

January 29, 2020 – January 30, 2020 | Lausanne, Switzerland

The 7th annual workshop of the Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative engagement between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich and EPFL, took place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. Each of the twelve project teams…