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Making better use of the crowd
By Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Over the last decade, computer scientists have harnessed crowds of Internet users to solve tasks that are notoriously difficult to crack with computers alone, such as determining whether an image contains a…
Prix | Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
Hanna Wallach honored with the Borg Early Career Award
Hanna Wallach was honored with the Borg Early Career Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). For a woman in computer science and/or engineering who has made significant research contributions and who has contributed…
Prix | National Academy of Sciences
Yuval Peres and Robert Schapire join the National Academy of Sciences
Yuval Peres elected as Foreign Associate and Robert Schapire elected as a member to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Read more >
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…
Dans l’actualité | 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…
Prix | 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…
Dans l’actualité | 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…