Jaime Teevan and Andrés Monroy-Hernández along with Elena Agapie received the Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2015) Best Paper Award for work on Crowdsourcing in the Field: A Case Study Using Local Crowds for Event Reporting.
Extensive crowdsourcing study reveals surprising results in reversal of platform design assumptions
By John Kaiser, Research News A 21-month study on the dynamics of crowdsourcing shows workers depend on collaborating with each other, upending platform designers’ long-held assumptions of crowdsourcing tasks performed in isolation. “People spend far more time on a task,…
At Microsoft Research Asia, artificial intelligence is informing, and informed by, the human experience
Posted by Allison Linn When most people use automated speech recognition technology today, it's because they have a task that needs to get done: A person to call, directions to get, a quick text to send. In China, millions of…
Interactive art featured at ACM Multimedia 2015
The Interactive Art Program for ACM Multimedia 2015 was curated around the themes of media, installation and interactivity—meaning the works needed to address and incorporate real and digital space (and media) as essential elements to the work and also be…
Jennifer Chayes opens inaugural Women in Data Science conference
The prospect of forging new business models and drug therapies by analyzing large scale networks will be among the topics explored in the welcoming keynote address as the inaugural Women in Data Science Conference (opens in new tab) opens at Stanford…
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era will interest students and scholars of digital media and their impact on society and will engage readers in a broader dialogue and conversation about their own participatory practices in this digital age.
The Evolution of Bing’s ObjectStore
By Vikas Sabharwal and Vineet Pruthi, Microsoft Shared Platform Group In late 2011, Bing’s shared platform team started looking at different solutions for distributed NoSQL stores. We needed a fast, unified, distributed key value-store that is scalable and can be turned…
Swimming in a deluge of user generated content
The Internet is awash in user generated content (UGC)—from blogs, reviews, and Q&As, to wikis, tweets, and Facebook posts. And let’s not forget photo- and video-sharing sites: every second, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube, and an average…
Preview of ACM’s Multimedia Conference Oct 29 keynote address
Zhengyou Zhang, research manager and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, will present his team’s latest advances in immersive human-human telecommunications at ACM’s annual multimedia conference in Brisbane, Australia. The 2015 ACM Multimedia Conference runs from October 26-30. View the full conference…