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MIT announced danah boyd is the recipient of the 2022-23 Morison Prize in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). The Morison Prize recognizes an outstanding individual who combines humanistic values with effectiveness in practical affairs, particularly in science and technology. danah…
Awards | Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
Lester Mackey named IMS Fellow
Lester Mackey, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Dr. Mackey received the award for deep theoretical work in statistical machine learning with impactful applications.
AI self-play for algorithm design
| Adam Tauman Kalai and Patrick Haluptzok
Self-play has helped AI systems succeed in games like chess and Go. Can the same method help improve AI programming abilities? Using easy-to-check, hard-to-solve programming problems, researchers show AI can create, solve, and train on its own puzzles.
Awards | ACM SIGecom
Nicole Immorlica receives SIGecom 2023 Test-of-Time Award
The ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago that has significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and…
Awards | ACM
ACM named Yael Tauman Kalai recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthroughs in Cryptography
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Yael Tauman Kalai the recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography. Kalai’s contributions have helped shape modern cryptographic practices and…
Awards | Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Lorin Crawford honored as a 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Awardee
Lorin Crawford is one of eight awardees of the 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Award. For path-breaking research combining theory and methods of mathematics, statistics and computing to generate new knowledge and insight about the genetic basis of disease, and for…
Allison Koenecke who was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the Microsoft Research New England lab was recognized as Forbes 30 under 30 2023 in the Science category. Koenecke’s work is aimed at correcting bias underlying algorithms. She is an expert…
Awards | NeurIPS Conference 2022
Lester Mackey receive Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS 2022
Lester Mackey, Principal Researcher from Microsoft Research New England Lab along with his co-authors Jiaxin Shi, Yuhao Zhou, Jessica Hwang, and Michalis Titsias, received the Outstanding Paper award for their paper Gradient Estimation with Discrete Stein Operators at the Neural…
In the news | The Washington Post
Crypto pulled off its big upgrade. Even larger ambitions await.
The platform that hosts many of the world’s NFT and cryptocurrency trades just completed one of the trickiest upgrades in modern technology. Now come the really big goals. Earlier this week, ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and his team successfully finished…