Brent Hecht
Partner Director of Applied Science
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New Future of Work: AI is driving rapid change, uneven benefits
| Jaime Teevan, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Siân Lindley, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Brent Hecht, Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, and Sean Rintel
For the past five years, the New Future of Work report has captured how work is changing. This year, the shift feels especially sharp. Previous editions have focused on technology’s role in increasing productivity by automating tasks, accelerating communication, and…
Awards | Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs
Mengting Wan, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht and Jaime Teevan awarded KDD Best Paper Award 2022
A team of Microsoft researchers led by Mengting Wan and Jing Ma, former intern, along with fellow researchers Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, and Jaime Teevan, won the KDD Best Paper Award 2022 for their paper Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs.
New Future of Work: Driving innovation via cross-company research with Jaime Teevan and Brent Hecht
In this episode of The New Future of Work series of the podcast, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht of the Experiences and Devices group in Microsoft share how an internal SharePoint document led to…
How research can enable more effective remote work
| Jaime Teevan and Brent Hecht
Due to recent events, millions of office workers have needed to rapidly adjust to working from home—learning new collaboration tools and best practices, re-thinking how to stay connected with colleagues outside the office, and adapting to new social norms around…