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Introducing the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative
Addressing and mitigating the effects of climate change requires a collective effort, bringing our strengths to bear across industry, government, academia, and civil society.
Dans l’actualité | Data.org
Project Resolve and the Healthy Community Hub Deploy Data Science that Works for Communities
The Healthy Community Hub and Project Resolve, a multi-stakeholder collaboration that brings Microsoft Research’s social science, engineering, and computer science expertise to the table with the North Carolina CBO leaders. Microsoft’s team is building out the tool while also leveraging the…
Prix | Committee of President of Statistical Societies
Lester Mackey selected to the 2022 COPSS Leadership Academy
Lester Mackey was selected to be a member of the 2022 COPSS Leadership Academy. Started in 2021, the Academy is comprised of emerging leaders who play an important role in shaping the future of the statistics discipline. This is an…
Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins episode 1 with Desmond Patton and Mary L. Gray
In “Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins,” Senior Principal Researcher Mary L. Gray explores how technology and community intertwine and the role technology can play in supporting community-driven innovation and community-based organizations. Dr. Gray and her team are…
Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
Over the past 30 years, Microsoft Research has undergone a shift in how it approaches innovation, broadening its mission to include not only advancing the state of computing but also using technology to tackle some of the world’s most pressing…
Prix | El Economista
Citibanamex award won by Diego Jimenez Hernandez
Diego Jimenez Hernandez and Enrique Seira awarded the prestigious Citabanamex top prize in the research category for their paper «Should the Government Sell You Goods? Evidence from the Milk Market in Mexico».
Dans l’actualité | The Hill
How human-centered tech can beat COVID-19 through contact tracing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working on a proposal to massively scale-up testing and contact tracing to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. This effort will involve identifying all of those infected with the coronavirus and notifying everyone…
Facebook faced a great deal of criticism in September, following revelations published in the Wall Street Journal. One example was that Facebook had begun a program, called XCheck, to route public figures away from their content moderation process, to be…
Lecture series aims to help spur dialogue around race and technology
In November, NYU media professor Charlton McIlwain (opens in new tab) joined fellow scholars Safiya Noble, Ruha Benjamin, and André Brock for a virtual discussion on anti-Blackness and technology hosted by the University of California Santa Barbara. The conversation was…