Social sciences
Distributed Entity Resolution for Computational Social Science
Very often information about social entities is scattered across multiple databases. Combining that information into one database can result in enormous benefits for analysis, resulting in richer and more reliable conclusions. In most practical applications,…
Center for Societal impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI)
MSR India’s Center for Societal impact through Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) focuses on creating, nurturing and deploying technologies that will have large scale impact on society.
Battling Unfair Demons in Peer Review
Peer review is the backbone of scholarly research. It is however faced with a number of challenges (or “demons”) such as subjectivity, bias/mis-calibration, noise, and strategic behavior, which cause unfairness in the process. This talk…
Boosting Innovation and Discovery of Ideas
The explosion of available idea repositories—scientific papers, patents, product descriptions—represents an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate innovation and lead to a wealth of discoveries. Given the scale of the problem and its ever-expanding nature, there is…
