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Publication

AI Should Challenge, Not Obey

March 2024

Preprint of a paper to appear in Communications of the ACM (CACM) 2024. The published version of the article may differ.

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Augmenting Human Cognition and Decision Making with AI

January 30, 2024 | Jake Hofman

Microsoft Research Forum, January 30, 2024 Jake Hofman, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research NYC discusses recent research in building and evaluating AI tools for helping people make better decisions and improve their own capabilities.…

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Through the Looking-Glass: Transparency Implications and Challenges in Enterprise AI Knowledge Systems

Karina Cortiñas-Lorenzo, Siân Lindley, Ida Larsen-Ledet, Bhaskar Mitra

January 2024

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Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of January 8, 2024

January 10, 2024

Mixture-of-linear-experts for long-term time series forecasting; Weakly-supervised streaming multilingual speech model with truly zero-shot capability; KBFormer: Diffusion model for structured entity completion; Identifying risks of AI-mediated data access:

Research Focus - week of January 8, 2024

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Research at Microsoft 2023: A year of groundbreaking AI advances and discoveries

December 22, 2023

AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage…

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Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023

Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan

MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023

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Publication

Scalable Fair Influence Maximization

Xiaobin Rui, Zhixiao Wang, Jiayu Zhao, Lichao Sun, Wei Chen

Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) | December 2023

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Navigating the new normal: Examining coattendance in a hybrid work environment

Marie Charpignon, Yuan Yuan, Dehao Zhang, Fereshteh Amini, Longqi Yang, Sonia Jaffe, Siddharth Suri

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | December 2023, Vol 120

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Career Opportunity

Post Doc Researcher – Computational Social Science

Type: Post-doc researcher

Posted: December 7, 2023

Location(s): New York, NY, US

Research Area(s): Economics, Mathematics, Social sciences

The Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC is actively seeking a post doc researcher to join us in advancing the state-of-the-art in computational social science and online experimentation. The applicant will possess awareness…

Podcast

Collaborators: Teachable AI with Cecily Morrison and Karolina Pakėnaitė

December 5, 2023

Cecily Morrison and Karolina Pakėnaitė are collaborators on a research prototype designed to help members of the blind community find their personal items. Learn how the work is advancing an approach to empower people to…