Social sciences - Microsoft Research

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“My TV is the family Oven/Toaster/Grill”:Personalizing TV for the Indian Audience

Kentaro Toyama

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction | October 2008

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Learning about the World through Long-Term Query Logs

Matthew Richardson

ACM Transactions on the Web | October 2008, Vol 2

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Can We Make “Distance Matter” Less?

Gina Venolia

October 2008

This is a presentation that I gave at UC Irvine summarizing the research my group has done that relates to distributed development.

Microsoft Research Blog

Innovation Inquiries: The Birth of a Research Lab

September 22, 2008

By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Since Microsoft Research New England was announced on Feb. 4, Jennifer Chayes, managing director of the lab, based in Cambridge, Mass., has been hard at work along with…

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Microsoft Research Asia: 10 Years

September 13, 2008 | Vicki Cao

Microsoft Research Asia: 10 Years

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Ranking of Closeness Centrality for Large-scale Social Networks

Kazuya Okamoto, Wei Chen, Xiang-Yang Li

Proceedings of the 2nd International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop (FAW’2008), Changsha, China, June 2008. | June 2008

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Buying In: The Secret Dialogue between What We Buy and Who We Are

June 25, 2008 | Rob Walker, Kirsten Wiley

Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Weaned on TiVo, the Internet and other emerging technologies, the short-attention-span generation has become immune to marketing. Consumers are in control…or so we’re told. Yet as technology has…