Social sciences
Racist Tropes and Labor Discipline: How Tech Inherits and Reproduces Global Imaginaries of Race and Work
How do histories of race and labor make their way into the tech industry? What is the relationship between these histories and the way new ideas and profits are generated in the tech industry more…
Datamations
datamations is a framework for automatic generation of explanation of plots and tables from analysis code. It automatically turns code into animations, showing the steps that led to a plot or a table.
Anticipate, absorb, and adapt—introducing the societal resilience research agenda
The genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first published in January 2020. Before the end of the year, new vaccines—which typically take five to ten years to develop—were approved for emergency use in multiple nations. This…
Societal Resilience
We research new and reliable ways of anticipating the technology needed for the next crisis, whatever that may be, and making it ready to adapt and deploy when the time comes.
Econ1: Using microeconomics to solve mass incarceration featuring Hunt Allcott and Evan Rose
In this episode, Dr. Hunt Allcott, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, talks with Dr. Evan Rose, Postdoctoral Researcher, whom Allcott describes as “one of the most engaging and talented researchers in applied…
Failures of imagination: Discovering and measuring harms in language technologies
Auditing natural language processing (NLP) systems for computational harms remains an elusive goal. Doing so, however, is critical as there is a proliferation of language technologies (and applications) that are enabled by increasingly powerful natural…
Richard Banks – Human Experience Design
This week on CAS TV, we hear from Richard Banks, principal design manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge, about the place and process of human experience design in the technological development process. In his role of…
Failures of imagination: Discovering and measuring harms in language technologies webinar
Join Microsoft researchers Su Lin Blodgett and Alexandra Olteanu, from the FATE Group at Microsoft Research Montréal, to examine pitfalls in some state-of-the-art approaches to measuring computational harms in language technologies. For such measurements of…
