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Inferring Latent User Properties from Texts Published in Social Media

Svitlana Volkova, Yoram Bachrach, Michael Armstrong, Vijay Sharma

AAAI – Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | January 2015

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Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Social Sciences: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Medium | December 2014

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Touchless interaction in surgical settings

Tom Carrell, Helena Mentis, Graeme Penney, Antonio Criminisi, Kenton O'Hara, Abigail Sellen, Mark Rouncefield, Neville Dastur, Varnavas, Bob Corish

Communications of the ACM | December 2014

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The Economic and Cognitive Costs of Annoying Display Advertisements

Daniel G. Goldstein, Siddharth Suri, Preston McAfee, Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Fernando Diaz

Journal of Marketing Research | December 2014

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Sparse Real Estate Ranking with Online User Reviews and Offline Moving Behaviors

Yanjie Fu, Yong Ge, Yu Zheng, Yanchi Liu, Hui Xiong, Nicholas Jing Yuan

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining | December 2014

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Turk-Life in India

Neha Gupta, David Martin, Ben Hanrahan, Jacki O'Neill

Proceedings of Group 2014 | November 2014

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The Pipeline from Computing Research to Surprising Inventions

November 6, 2014 | Peter Lee

One of the most exciting aspects of computer science is that the results of basic research so often end up being applied in completely unexpected ways. At Microsoft Research, we actively seek out these surprising…

Peter Lee wearing a suit and tie

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Do More, Know More, and Be More through Computational Living

November 6, 2014 | Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Computers have become pervasive throughout our daily lives. From the use of computing for communication, work, and entertainment to the use of computing in specific domains such as education and health, computing has become more…

Hsiao-Wuen Hon wearing a suit and tie

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Saving Money While Polling with InterPoll using Power Analysis

Ben Livshits, Todd Mytkowicz

November 2014

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Ethical-Response Survey Report: Fall 2014

Stuart Schechter, Cristian Bravo-Lillo

MSR-TR-2014-140 | November 2014