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In the news | EricHorvitz.com
A Milestone Reached
Strong democracies are built on an informed and compassionate citizenry. Disinformation campaigns, designed to mislead, persuade, and sow division, can disrupt our understandings, and fan the flames of discontent. We just hit a significant milestone in technologies that can bring…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
A promising step forward on disinformation
“What can we do?” Those words continued to echo as I returned home from the World Economic Forum in Davos in early 2019. The director of a major news organization asked me that question point blank after we reviewed several deepfake…
In the news | CNBC
Microsoft unifies research groups as it appoints a science chief
Microsoft is switching the leadership of its research wing after senior executive Harry Shum left the company last month. The change signals Microsoft’s interest in longer-term research efforts. In addition to unifying parts of Microsoft Research under one person, the company…
In the news | MSPoweruser
Peter Lee becomes the head of Microsoft Research
Microsoft today announced leadership changes for Microsoft Research. Peter Lee will be the new leader for the Microsoft Research organization. Peter Lee was already leading several research teams that were developing technology in healthcare and life sciences. In his new…
Advancing Human-Centered AI
| Eric Horvitz
We’re excited about the formal launch of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on Monday, March 18th. We resonate with Fei-Fei Li, John Etchemendy, and other leaders at Stanford on the promise of taking an interdisciplinary approach to…
Guidelines for human-AI interaction design
| Saleema Amershi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, and Eric Horvitz
The increasing availability and accuracy of AI has stimulated uses of AI technologies in mainstream user-facing applications and services. Along with opportunities for infusing valuable AI services in a wide range of products come challenges and questions about best practices…
Traffic updates: Saying a lot while revealing a little
| John Krumm and Eric Horvitz
The idea of crowdsourcing traffic data has been around for a while: If we can get vehicles on the roads to upload their current speeds, then we can get instant, up-to-date data on how fast traffic is moving for well-traveled…
Awards | User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
Meredith Ringel Morris receives UIST 2018 Lasting Impact Award
Meredith (Merrie) Ringel Morris, a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research, received the UIST 2018 Lasting Impact Award for her 2007 paper, co-authored by Eric Horvitz, entitled: “SearchTogether: An interface for collaborative web search.” The award was presented at the 31st ACM User…
Awards | American Philosophical Society
Eric Horvitz elected to American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.” Eric J. Horvitz, Director, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research Labs; Affiliate Associate Professor, Departments of…