Social sciences
Mobile Robotic Telepresence
From field studies to exotic prototypes This umbrella workstream covers the issues of using mobile robotic telepresence in the field, as well as a more exotic project in which mobile robotic telepresence was combined with…
Exploring a potential wormhole between Quadratic Funding and Quantum Mechanics – Schelling Point Bogota
Michael H. Freedman, Distinguished Scientist, at Schelling Point Bogota 2022 presenting “Exploring a potential wormhole between Quadratic Funding and Quantum Mechanics” with an introduction from E. Glen Weyl, Research Lead, DSTC and Founder of RadicalxChange.
How to build great products, learnings & inspirations from GitHub – Kyiv Tech Summit Day 2
Kyiv Tech Summit 2022 Day 2 Workshop featuring Kasia Sitkiewicz of GitHub How to build great products, learnings & inspirations from GitHub Go on a journey of discovery with Kasia Sitkiewicz, staff product manager at…
Lightning talks: The identity revolution: Centering trust on people
Today, our online identities are composed of disjointed and siloed relationships with various governments and commercial and social providers. The internet is missing a suitable layer to represent and manage the complexities of real-life identity…
Research talks: An investigation into user expectations for differential privacy
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…
Responsible AI: An Interdisciplinary Approach Workshop
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…
Plural Technology Collaboratory
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…