Social sciences - Microsoft Research

Publication

Influence Maximization with Spontaneous User Adoption

Lichao Sun, Albert Chen, Philip S. Yu, Wei Chen

Proceedings of the 13th ACM International WSDM Conference (WSDM) | February 2020

Publication

Gradient Method for Continuous Influence Maximization with Budget-Saving Considerations

Wei Chen, Weizhong Zhang, Haoyu Zhao

Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) | February 2020

Video

Data Science Summer School 2019 – Replicating “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force”

January 30, 2020 | Emeka Mbazor, Roymil Terrero, Adnan Hoq, Harpreet Gaur, Etta Rapp, Cindy Muso, Naomi Moreira, Brenda Fried

This project replicates and extends a recent paper on racial bias in police use of force. We selected this paper because it is both widely read and also an ideal candidate for a data analysis…

Video: Data Science Summer School 2019 - Replicating

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Publication

Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems

Andrew D. Selbst, danah boyd, Sorelle Friedler, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Janet Vertesi

FAT* 2019 | January 2020

Event

Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020

January 29, 2020 – January 30, 2020 | Lausanne, Switzerland

The 7th annual workshop of the Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative engagement between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich and EPFL, took place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. Each of the twelve project teams…

Project

Bali

Bali is paving the path for a personal data ecosystem in which users are in control and can benefit from their data. Like a vault, Bali enables users to aggregate their information securely and privately…

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