Social sciences
Project Resolve
Project Resolve is a multistakeholder collaboration that brings Microsoft Research’s social science, engineering, and computer science expertise to the service of the Healthy Community Hub, a coalition of Black and Latinx community-based organizations in North…
Our Genomes, Our Selves?
The initial draft sequence of the human genome, published in 2001, promised to usher the world towards personalized medicine, in which a patient’s genome is used to diagnose, treat, and prevent illness. Almost twenty years…
Pursuing a resilient and sustainable global society
To mark the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Research, Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer, co-moderates a series of panel discussions on the “Generations of Inspirational and Impactful Research”. The panelists, comprised of current and past Microsoft…
Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity
Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity Souti Chattopadhyay, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann CSCW’21: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Session: Online Identities Abstract Developers are more than “nerds behind…
On Race and Technoculture
Where does Blackness manifest in Western technoculture? Technoculture is our modern ideology; our world structured through our relationships with technology and culture. Once enslaved, historically disenfranchised, and never deemed literate, Blackness is understood as the…
Research talk: New Future of Work Overview
Our experience in the past year with virtual events has emphasized that planning an event in the virtual world must take into account the span of attention of the audience. We are implementing a new…
