Social sciences - Microsoft Research

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Raffles

Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier, Joshua Mollner, E. Glen Weyl

February 2017

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Partitioned Sampling of Public Opinions Based on Their Social Dynamics

Weiran Huang, Liang Li, Wei Chen

Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2017), San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA, Feb. 2017 | February 2017

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Surfacing Small Worlds through Data-In-Place

Siân Lindley, Anja Thieme, Alex Taylor, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Tim Regan, David Sweeney

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | February 2017

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Quadratic voting and the public good: introduction

Eric A. Posner, E. Glen Weyl

Public Choice | February 2017, Vol 172: pp. 1-22

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Prediction and explanation in social systems

Jake Hofman, Amit Sharma, Duncan Watts

Science | February 2017, Vol 355: pp. 486-488

Microsoft Research Blog

Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers

February 2, 2017

By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are…

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Fukushima Daiichi – Six Years Later

February 2, 2017 | Joe Shepherd

Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunamis off the northeastern coast of Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant personnel encountered extraordinary challenges in managing the loss of electrical power, control, and instrumentation at…