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Incentivizing information explorers (when they’d really rather exploit)
Everyone is familiar by now with recommendation systems such as on Netflix for movies, Amazon for products, Yelp for restaurants and TripAdvisor for travel. Indeed, quality recommendations are a crucial part of the value provided by these businesses. Recommendation systems…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services adds reinforcement learning for recommendations and doodle recognition AI
Microsoft is introducing new ways to deploy AI with Azure Cognitive Services, its prebuilt service to make it easier for people without the technical knowledge of a machine learning engineer or data scientist…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft extends its Cognitive Services with personalization service, handwriting recognition APIs and more
As part of its rather bizarre news dump before its flagship Build developer conference next week, Microsoft today announced a slew of new pre-built machine learning models for its Cognitive Services platform. These include an API…
In the news | TWiML
Fairness in Machine Learning with Hanna Wallach
Today we’re joined by Hanna Wallach, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Hanna and I really dig into how bias and a lack of interpretability and transparency show up across machine learning. We discuss the role that human biases, even…
Data Science Summer School students take a fresh look at the world’s largest rapid transit system
| Jake Hofman
This month marked the 5th anniversary of the Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School (DS3). DS3 is an intensive, eight-week hands-on introduction to data science for college students in the New York City area committed to increasing diversity in computer…
Leading labs with Dr. Jennifer Chayes
Episode 45, October 10, 2018 – Dr. Chayes shares her passion for the value of undirected inquiry, talks about her unlikely journey from rebel to researcher, and explains how she believes her research philosophy – more botanist than boss –…
Keeping an Eye on AI with Dr. Kate Crawford
Episode 14, February 28, 2018 – Today, Dr. Crawford talks about both the promises and the problems of AI; why— when it comes to data – bigger isn’t necessarily better; and how – even in an era of increasingly complex…
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast
Keeping an Eye on AI with Dr. Kate Crawford
Dr. Kate Crawford talks about both the promises and the problems of AI; whyâ when it comes to data â bigger isnât necessarily better; and how we can adopt AI design principles that empower people to shape their technical tools…
In the news | Nautilus
How to Understand Extreme Numbers
Dan Goldstein, principal researcher, and Jake Hofman, senior researcher, have been running experiments to see what kinds of contextual clues help people grasp the meaning of large quantities like distances, dollar amounts, population sizes, and more.