Differential privacy is widely regarded as a gold standard for privacy-preserving computation over users’ data. A key challenge with differential privacy is that its mathematical sophistication can be difficult to communicate to users, leaving them…
When studying responsible AI (artificial intelligence), most of the time we are studying its impact on people and society. Sociologists, psychologists, and media scientists have long-term accumulation and research results in these areas. When we…
The Plural Technology Collaboratory is a Microsoft Research Special Project dedicated to advancing Plural Technologies (PTs), ones that support diverse communities and empower collaboration across them. The PTC is motivated by the rapid recent advances in…
Microsoft Research Summit 2022, held October 18-20, 2022, explores what’s next for technology and humanity.
Meet some of 2022 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship recipients from around the world. The Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship is a global program that identifies and empowers the next generation of exceptional computing research talent. Microsoft…
Harmful technology development is often attributed to the lack of diversity in computing. Yet, this lack of diversity is not always attributed to the harmful academic/professional environments that are dominated by white and Asian, cisgender,…
In Robin D.G. Kelley’s Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, he details a history of Black feminist movements that interrogate what is “normal”, while also envisioning new ways of living and interacting that constitute a…
