Social Order in the Age of Big Data: Exploring the Knowledge Problem and the Freedom Problem
This talk will explore how to use social theory to understand problems of social order and its relationship to an era of Big Data. I take as a starting-point of the talk the neglected late…
Intent and Emotions in Image Search and Viewing
The talk is divided into two sections. In the first section, I will talk about behavioral and physiological responses associated with interest, curiosity, and novelty in image viewing. We recorded facial expressions, eye gaze and…
Microsoft @ LISA 2017
Microsoft is a silver sponsor of LISA17, the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The program will address the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, curated…
Microsoft Research @ HCOMP 2017
We are excited to be a gold sponsor of Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2017, the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer…
Engaging the ethics of data science in practice
Microsoft Research @ SPLASH 2017
We are excited to be participating in SPLASH 2017, the ACM SIGPLAN conference that embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and…