Social sciences
Studying how people, societies, and technology shape one another to create more equitable and effective computing experiences.
Econ1: Using microeconomics to solve mass incarceration featuring Hunt Allcott and Evan Rose
In this episode, Dr. Hunt Allcott, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, talks with Dr. Evan Rose, Postdoctoral Researcher, whom Allcott describes as “one of the most engaging and talented researchers in applied…
Failures of imagination: Discovering and measuring harms in language technologies
Auditing natural language processing (NLP) systems for computational harms remains an elusive goal. Doing so, however, is critical as there is a proliferation of language technologies (and applications) that are enabled by increasingly powerful natural…
Richard Banks – Human Experience Design
This week on CAS TV, we hear from Richard Banks, principal design manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge, about the place and process of human experience design in the technological development process. In his role of…
Failures of imagination: Discovering and measuring harms in language technologies webinar
Join Microsoft researchers Su Lin Blodgett and Alexandra Olteanu, from the FATE Group at Microsoft Research Montréal, to examine pitfalls in some state-of-the-art approaches to measuring computational harms in language technologies. For such measurements of…
US Broadband Usage Percentages Dataset
We are publishing datasets we developed as part of our efforts with Microsoft’s Airband Initiative to help close the rural broadband gap. The data can be used for the purpose of analyzing, understanding, improving, or…
Race and Technology: A Research Lecture Series
You’re invited to join us as we bring together leading voices at the intersection of race and technology for discussions around data, the internet, justice, genomics and more. In this virtual speaker series, connect with the distinguished academics and domain experts who are driving this…
