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Protecting People from Algorithms (and Vice Versa)

February 9, 2017 | Steven Wu

Computing technologies today have made it much easier to gather personal data. Algorithms are constantly analyzing such personal information and making consequential decisions on people. The extensive use of algorithms imposes the risks of algorithms…

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On the Rectilinear Steiner Problem

Andreas Blass, Yuri Gurevich

The Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science | February 2017, Vol 121

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Partitioned Sampling of Public Opinions Based on Their Social Dynamics

Weiran Huang, Liang Li, Wei Chen

Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2017), San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA, Feb. 2017 | February 2017

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Algorithms for Active Classifier Selection: Maximizing Recall with Precision Constraints

Paul N. Bennett, David M. Chickering, Christopher Meek, Xiaojin Zhu

Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’17) | February 2017

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Market Pricing for Data Streams

Melika Abolhassani, Hossein Esfandiari, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Brendan Lucier, Hadi Yami

Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2017 | February 2017

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Cell-Specific Computational Modelling of the PIM pathway in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Dana Silverbush, Shaun Grosskurth, Dennis Wang, Francoise Powell, Berthold Gottgens, Jonathan Dry, Jasmin Fisher

Cancer Research | February 2017, Vol 77(4): pp. 1-12

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Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers

February 2, 2017

By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are…

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Natasha: Faster Non-Convex Stochastic Optimization Via Strongly Non-Convex Parameter

Zeyuan Allen-Zhu

February 2017

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A Decomposition of Forecast Error in Prediction Markets

Miro Dudík, Sébastien Lahaie, Ryan Rogers, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) | February 2017

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Generalization Error Bounds for Optimization Algorithms via Stability

Qi Meng, Yue Wang, Wei Chen, Taifeng Wang, Zhi-Ming Ma, Tie-Yan Liu

Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | February 2017