Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something closer to friendship or family.
Awards | ACM RecSys Challenge 2018
Ranked at RecSys Challlenge 2018
Finished rank #7 (out of 112 participating teams) on the main track and rank #5 (out of 31 participating teams) on the creative track at RecSys Challlenge 2018.
SIGIR Conference Analytics
In this post, we present analytic insights about the conference SIGIR - Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, taking place in Ann Arbor Michigan, U.S.A. between July 8-12, 2018. We derive insights since 1993 to the latest available year.
In the news | ZDNet
AI and health: Using machine learning to understand the human immune system
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies have partnered on an ambitious immunology project that could see diseases diagnosed much faster.
Examining the social impacts of artificial intelligence with Dr. Fernando Diaz
Episode 30, June 27, 2018 - Dr. Diaz shares his insights on the kinds of questions we need to be asking about artificial intelligence and its impact on society. He also talks about how algorithms can affect your taste in…
After attending the second annual GLEAM conference in 2018, one user researcher began approaching their work with an open mind.
A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online—and the large societal impact of these decisions.
In the news | Microsoft Blog
New team assembled to unlock the innovation potential in healthcare data
It’s an exciting time to be working shoulder-to-shoulder with our healthcare partners and customers, who represent some of the brightest minds in this important industry. We have been approaching the complexities of the healthcare industry with a growth mindset, and…
Probabilistic predicates to accelerate inference queries
| Srikanth Kandula
Imagine having to narrow down a video of passing vehicles captured on a traffic camera to red SUVs that are exceeding the speed limit. Such queries over images, videos and text are an increasingly common use-case for data analytics platforms.…