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Survey Data and Human Computation for Improved Flu Tracking

Stefan Wojcik, Avleen Bijral, Richard Johnston, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ryan Kennedy, Alessandro Vespignani, David Lazer

Nature Communications | January 2021

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Tarleton Gillespie

Information: A Historical Companion | Published by Princeton | 2021

(Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton, eds.)

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The New Future of Work: Research from Microsoft into the Pandemic’s Impact on Work Practices

Jaime Teevan, Brent Hecht, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Rachel Bergmann, Matt Brodsky, Bill Buxton, Jenna Butler, Adam Coleman, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Houck, Ginger Hudson, Shamsi Iqbal, Chandra Maddila, Kate Nowak, Emily Peloquin, Ricardo Reyna Fernandez, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Tiffany Smith, Margaret-Anne Storey, Siddharth Suri, Hana Wolf, Longqi Yang

MSR-TR-2021-1 | January 2021

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Collaboration and Meetings – Chapter 1 of the 2021 New Future of Work report

Nancy Baym, Rachel Bergmann, Adam Coleman, Ricardo Reyna Fernandez, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Tiffany Smith

The New Future of Work: Research from Microsoft on the Impact of the Pandemic on Work Practices | Published by Microsoft | 2021

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Birds of a Caste – How Caste Hierarchies Manifest in Retweet Behavior of Indian Politicians

Palashi Vaghela, Ramaravind K Mothilal, Joyojeet Pal

January 2021

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Misinformation as a Window into Prejudice: COVID-19 and the Information Environment in India

Syeda Zainab Akbar, Anmol Panda, Divyanshu Kukreti, Azhagu Meena, Joyojeet Pal

January 2021

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Personal Productivity and Well-being – Chapter 2 of the 2021 New Future of Work report

Jenna Butler, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Sonia Jaffe, Kate Nowak, Emily Peloquin, Longqi Yang

The New Future of Work: Research from Microsoft on the Impact of the Pandemic on Work Practices, 2 | Published by Microsoft | 2021

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Investigating Secure Development In Practice A Human-Centered Perspective

December 16, 2020 | Michelle Mazurek

Secure development is not just a technical problem: it’s a human and organizational problem as well. To understand the causes of insecurity, and find effective solutions, we must understand how and why security problems happen,…

the video title slide for Michelle Mazurek's session during the Developing Secure Systems Summit

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Foundations of causal inference and its impacts on machine learning webinar

December 3, 2020 | Virtual/Online

In this webinar, join Microsoft researchers Amit Sharma and Emre Kıcıman to learn about the fundamentals of causal inference. You will learn how a target question of cause and effect can be captured in a…

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Careers at Microsoft Research Panel & Discussion

December 2, 2020 | Denae Ford Robinson, Bita Darvish Rouhani, Lukas Maas, Martez Mott

A panel of four researchers at Microsoft discuss their experience working at Microsoft as PhDs and their career journeys since then. Speakers: Denae Ford Robinson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft [Discussion Lead] Bita Darvish Rouhani, Senior Researcher…

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