Social sciences - Microsoft Research

Publication

Mental Representation and Access of Polymorphic Words in Bangla: Evidence from Cross-modal Priming Experiments

Tirthankar Dasgupta, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, Anupam Basu

In Proceedings of ICON-2010, Kharagpur, India | December 2010

Publication

The Bank Account is not Enough: Examining Strategies for Financial Inclusion in India

Olga Morawczynski, David Hutchful, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell

Proc. of the 4th IEEE/ACM Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and International Development (ICTD) 2010, London, UK, IEEE | December 2010

Publication

Scalable influence maximization in social networks under the linear threshold model

Wei Chen, Yifei Yuan, Li Zhang

Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’2010), Sydney, Australia | December 2010

Publication

Managing Microfinance with Paper, Pen and Digital Slate

Aishwarya Ratan, Sunandan Chakraborty, Pushkar V. Chitnis, Kentaro Toyama, Keng Siang Ooi, Matthew Phiong, Mike Koenig

Proc. of the 4th IEEE/ACM Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and International Development (ICTD) 2010, London, UK, Proc. of ICTD 2010 | December 2010

Proc. of ICTD 2010

Video

27 Powers of Persuasion: Simple Strategies to Seduce Audiences and Win Allies

November 9, 2010 | Chris St. Hilaire

True persuasion is not about arm twisting or out-maneuvering your adversary; true persuasion is the creation of consensus from conflict or indifference. It is about taking an idea or a course of action and creating…

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Publication

News To Me: Twitter and the Personal Networking of News

Kate Crawford

News Online | Published by London: Palgrave | 2010

Project

Horton – Querying Large Distributed Graphs

Horton was a research project to enable querying large distributed graphs. It consists of a graph library built on top of Orleans that targets hosting large graphs in a data center. The library provides a querying…

Publication

Moveable Types: The Emergence of Mobile Social Media in Australia

Kate Crawford, Gerard Goggin

Media Asia Journal | September 2010, Vol 37(4): pp. 224-231

Publication

A Game-theoretic Framework to Identify Overlapping Communities in Social Networks

Wei Chen, Zhenming Liu, Xiaorui Sun, Yajun Wang

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal, special issue on ECML PKDD 2010, 21(2), September, 2010, pp. 224-240. | September 2010

Winner of the best student paper award in data mining at ECML PKDD 2010.

Video

Bury My Heart in Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers

September 16, 2010 | Stan Slap, Kirsten Wiley

The key to a company’s success is the emotional investment of managers, and the key source of emotional commitment is the ability to use your core values at work. Yet a manager’s job description often…

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