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Wanted: the next generation of data scientists
By Jake Hofman and Justin Rao, Senior Researchers, Microsoft Research New York City You never know when the smallest seed of an idea will lead to groundbreaking work, work with the potential to have a societal impact. If you’re an…
In the news | Microsoft Blog
Project Malmo: Using Minecraft to build more intelligent technology
Microsoft researchers are using Project Malmo for their own research, and they have made it available to a small group of academic researchers under a private beta.
Finding a community: Women in Machine Learning workshop celebrates 10th year
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research When Hanna Wallach learned that Jenn Wortman Vaughan also would be attending a major machine learning conference a decade ago, she was happy just to have another woman to share a hotel room…
Awards | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Jennifer Chayes receives John von Neumann Lecture Award
Jennifer Chayes was the recipient of the 2015 John von Neumann Lecture Award, the highest honor of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for her leadership in the research community, as well as seminal contributions to the study of phase transitions in…
In the news | ACM
ACM Athena Lecturer Award (2014)
For contributions to algorithms and interfaces for interactive information retrieval.
Addressing Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning
| Hanna Wallach
Posted by Microsoft Research Machine learning and big data are certainly hot topics that emerged within the tech community in 2014. But what are the real-world implications for how we interpret what happens inside the data centers that churn through…
A Data-Driven Crystal Ball
“Scottish independence: polls show it’s too close to call.” “Scotland’s vote likely to be a nail-biter.” “Scottish independence vote on a knife edge as polls put both Yes AND No ahead.” If there was any consensus in the days running…
Let’s HereHere It for NYC
If any city can be called opinionated, it would be New York City, so it’s somehow inevitable that HereHere is making its debut in the Big Apple. It’s Friday in Manhattan, and despite reports of several broken parking meters on…
Chatting with the Author of ‘It’s Complicated’
On Feb. 25, Yale University Press released the highly anticipated new book by danah boyd, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, titled It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. As one of the world’s pre-eminent authorities on…