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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…
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. The lab officially opened on…
Hopper Event: Inspiring Interest in CS
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Rane Johnson-Stempson recalls vividly the moment last spring when she first encountered Katie Doran. “I had the opportunity to meet Katie in Seattle during the Graduate Cohort Program of the Computing Research Association’s…
’12 Campaign: Predicting the U.S. Election
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research It’s a presidential election year in the United States, and that, we’ve learned, means that pollsters are on the prowl. The electorate for the forthcoming balloting will be sampled, questioned, categorized, sliced, and…
Microsoft Research Debuts N.Y.C. Lab
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research In the two decades since the formation of Microsoft Research, the organization has grown from its beginnings on Microsoft’s corporate headquarters in Redmond, Wash., into a global powerhouse with 12 labs across four…
In the news | NAE
Elected to National Academy of Engineering, 2011
For innovation and leadership in organizing, accessing, and interacting with information.
In the news | SIGIR
ACM SIGIR Salton Award (lifetime achievement), 2009
For nearly thirty years of significant, sustained, and continuing contributions to research, for exceptional mentorship, and for leadership in bridging the fields of information retrieval and human computer interaction.