Skip to Header Skip to Search Skip to Content Skip to Footer
Research area: Social sciences

Social sciences

Exploring how people use computing in their daily lives and the way people work, play, and connect with each other.

Refine Results

Current Selections
Content Types
People
Published Date
Custom Range:
to
1,276 results found
Publication

Maximizing SocialWelfare in a Competitive Diffusion Model 

by Prithu Banerjee, Wei Chen, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan

Influence maximization (IM) has garnered a lot of attention in the literature owing to applications such as viral marketing and infection containment. It aims to select a small number of seed users to adopt an item such that adoption propagates to a large number of users in the network. Competitive IM focuses on the propagation of competing items in the network. Existing works on competitive IM have several limitations. (1) They fail to incorporate economic…

Career Opportunity

MSR India Research Intern 

Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Working with some of the world’s best researchers, interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Interns not only advance their own careers, but they also contribute to the exciting R&D strides our researchers are making. During the internship, students are paired with mentors and expected to collaborate with other interns and researchers, present findings, and contribute to the vibrant life of the community. MSR India conducts research in…

Career Opportunity

Researcher – MSR India 

Microsoft Research India is inviting applications for researcher positions. A researcher position at Microsoft Research India offers an opportunity to be at the forefront of computer science research and technology development, and work with world class research colleagues on meaningful research problems. Our researchers have a unique opportunity to collaborate with Microsoft’s product groups and influence products used by billions of users and catalyze the design of new products. Our current areas of work range…

Career Opportunity

Principal Program Manager 

We are looking for an experienced program manager with new product and business expertise that can develop a strategy, planning, and operations approach to identify high priority customer, business and tech trends and opportunities for new product ideas. Additionally, this role will be instrumental to help coach and co-develop with new product development teams analytic and data-driven views of their addressable market opportunity. Complementing this focus, this role will also address business and operational areas…

Career Opportunity

Research Intern – Shared productivity 

The Office of the Chief Technology Officer Social Technology (OCTOST) group advises the company’s leaders on the social implications of technology and how Microsoft can help direct the future of technology and the tech industry to address significant social challenges, such as climate change, inequality, stagnant productivity and threats to democracy. We build closely on research in a range of disciplines, especially economics, political science, sociology, law, computer science and philosophy and we engage in…

Career Opportunity

Research Intern – Shared productivity 

The Office of the Chief Technology Officer Social Technology (OCTOST) group advises the company’s leaders on the social implications of technology and how Microsoft can help direct the future of technology and the tech industry to address significant social challenges, such as climate change, inequality, stagnant productivity and threats to democracy. We build closely on research in a range of disciplines, especially economics, political science, sociology, law, computer science and philosophy and we engage in…

Career Opportunity

Research Intern – AI For Good Research Lab 

AI for Humanitarian Action, AI for Earth, AI for Accessibility, and Digital Crimes. These are some of the programs at Microsoft where you can apply your world-class expertise to have a huge impact on global and local challenges. Come to work every day and contribute to projects that help save lives, alleviate suffering, and restore human dignity. Use the power of technology and AI to promote human rights, increase accessibility for those with disabilities, and…

Career Opportunity

Internship Opportunities: Future of Work – Enterprise Knowledge 

The intern will work with the Future of Work team on the Enterprise Knowledge project. The project aim is to develop compelling new user experiences driven by an enterprise knowledge base, by making knowledge available to workers as and when they need it. The knowledge base is generated through unsupervised machine learning (ML) with input from enterprise workers. The intern will research how recent innovations in enterprise technology have the potential to change how workers…

Career Opportunity

Internship Opportunities: Socially Intelligent Meetings (Media Spaces) 

Collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams support formal business momentum, but as remote and hybrid work become the new normal, distributed teams face problems of communicative friction and social isolation. Distributed organizations of all sizes are missing two critical affordances of being ‘in facility’: impromptu informal collaboration between spatially proximate team members throughout a day, and serendipitous work and social encounters with colleagues across a day. Microsoft Research is exploring how to reimagine video-mediated communication…

the video title slide for Michelle Mazurek's session during the Developing Secure Systems Summit
Video

Investigating Secure Development In Practice A Human-Centered Perspective 

Secure development is not just a technical problem: it’s a human and organizational problem as well. To understand the causes of insecurity, and find effective solutions, we must understand how and why security problems happen, and what barriers stand in the way of fixing them. How can we make it easier for developers to write secure code, even without special training? In this talk, I will report on findings from several recent studies addressing these…

Follow us:

Share this page: