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Six Provocations for Big Data
With big data come big responsibilities, specifically in the realm of social media. There is a hint an emergence of a philosophy that big data is all one needs and that other scientific methods and…
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Changing World of Modern Science
Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research Connections, presents the emergence of a Fourth Paradigm of research. The evolution of research has progressed though experimental science, theoretical science, and computational science to present-day data-intensive…
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Wikipedia on TV-DVD for Low-Income Communities
While many technologies remain out-of-reach for households in the developing world, one exception to this rule is that of entertainment technologies. Even in poor communities, there is a strong drive to own devices such as…
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Communication, Computing, and Technology
Madhu Sudan, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, discusses the differences between theoretical computation versus communication. “Communication,” in this context, refers to mobile phones, email, and other messages, while “computation” refers to things one…
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Teen Privacy Strategies in Networked Publics
Microsoft Researcher danah boyd’s research looks at the myths surrounding teens and privacy and the ways different teens reconcile technology with their public and private lives.
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Machine Learning and Crowdsourcing
Adam Kalai of Microsoft Research New England—in association with Serge Belongie of the University of California, San Diego; Ce Liu of Microsoft Research New England; George Pierrakos of University of California, Berkeley; Ohad Shamir of…
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Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality
Alessandro Acquisti, an economist by training and a self-described behavioral economist, explains that across history, time, and culture, people have felt the need for publicity, as well as the need for privacy. These are not…
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Systems Biology: Where Computer Science, Engineering, and Biology Meet
Ernest Fraenkel, associate professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses how the algorithms developed at Microsoft Research have potential impact on biology, specifically investigations into how genetic mutations can cause disease.…
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Health Care Decisions in the Information Age
Benjamin Handel of UC Berkley focuses on how individuals interact with the medical care sector to make important decisions. This involves using the information available and the incentives they face. The incentives can be financial…
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Privacy: Issues and Perspectives
Moderator Ethan Zuckerman hosts a panel in Cambridge, Mass., discussing issues of human rights, as well as individual and public privacy. Difficult questions on privacy include personal privacy and marketing data, and technology and tagging…
