Technology for Emerging Markets
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Ethnography for Artificial Intelligence
An introduction to ethnography for Artificial Intelligence as well as conversational analysis and its relevance to AI.
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Fairness in Machine Learning
Machine learning is increasingly being adopted by various domains: governments, credit, recruiting, advertising, and many others. Fairness and equality are critical aspects, especially in light of anti-discriminatory laws in these domains. Opaque machine learning models:…
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Digital Money, Financial Capability and Financial Inclusion
This project explores the impact of different forms of money and financial technologies on financial inclusion for low and variable income communities. It includes a number of interrelated initiatives from understanding the impact of digital money…
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The Making of Project Sangam
Microsoft Research India started project MEC to understand the adoption of quality educational content in India and how technology can help uplift this adoption rate. The platform saw great adoption in India, Middle East, and…
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Innovation at Microsoft: An Overview of Microsoft Research
Analysts visit Microsoft AI +R to learn about research approach and demos of projects.
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Project AVARE
India is home to the largest population of visually-impaired persons (VIPs) in the world, accounting for around 40% of the world’s total blind population as measured by the World Health Organization (WHO). AVARE (Augmented Virtual…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers
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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Mobile Data Collection
We present a health data record management application on a low-cost digital slate prototype (UX’12) built through iterative prototyping.