Maria: A Visual Experience Powered Conversational Agent Link (src. Microsoft Research) Authors: Zujie Liang, Huang Hu, Can Xu, Chongyang Tao, Xiubo Geng, Yining Chen, Liang Fan, Daxin Jiang Date Published: May 2021 Date Accessed: August 28, 2022 Summary: - Visual perception of conversational agents is the keyway for them to…

Postmortem Action Items: Plan the Work and Work the Plan Link (src. Google Research) Authors: Betsy Beyer, John Lunney, Sue Lueder Date Published: 2017 Date Accessed: August 27, 2022 Summary: - Goals of writing postmortems: understand all root causes, incident is documented for further study and future reference, enact effective…

Multiphoton-Excited Fluorescence of Silicon-Vacancy Color Centers in Diamond Link (src. Google Research) Authors: James Higbie, John D. Perreault, Victor Acosta, Chinmay Belthangady, Paul Lebel, Moonhee Kim, Khoa Nguyen, Vicky Demas, Vik Bajaj, Charles Santori Date Published: 2017 Date Accessed: August 27, 2022 Summary: - Nitrogen-vacancy color center in diamond has…

Modeling Ideology and Predicting Policy Change with Social Media: Case of Same-Sex Marriage Link (src. Microsoft Research) Authors: Amy X. Zhang, Scott Counts Date Published: 2015 Date Accessed: August 25, 2022 Summary: - Social media is where people share their feelings about social and political issues - Study the voices…

Fast and Accurate Medication Identification Link (src. Microsoft Research) Authors: Natalia Larios Delgado, Naoto Usuyama, Amanda K. Hall, Rebecca J. Hazen, Max Ma, Siva Sahu, Jessica Lundin Date Published: February 2019 Date Accessed: August 25, 2022 Summary: - AI in healthcare sector is focused around disease prediction but there are…

How Social Information Networks Reflect Major Life Events: Case of Childbirth Link (src. Microsoft Research) Authors: Munmun de Choudhury, Scott Counts, Eric Horvitz Date Published: 2013 Date Accessed: August 24, 2022 Summary: - Research in the past has focused on understanding the large-scale social processes enabled by availability of social…

How Humans Perceive Human-like Behavior in Video Game Navigation Link (src. Microsoft Research) Authors: Evelyn Zuniga, Stephanie Milani, Guy Leroy, Jaroslaw Rzepecki, Raluca Georgescu, Idea Momennejad, Dave Bignell, Mingei Sun, Alison Shaw, Gavin Costello, Mikhail Jacov, Sam Devlin, Katja Hofmann Date Published: April 2022 Date Accessed: August 24, 2022 Summary: …

Round Numbers Can Sharpen Cognition Link (src. Microsoft Research) Authors: Huy Anh Nguyen, Jake Hofman, Daniel G. Goldstein Date Published: 2022 Date Accessed: August 24, 2022 Summary: - Work studies the cognitive costs of processing multi-digit precise numbers - Pre-registered randomized experiment where readers were given many news stories with…

The Broad Value of a PhD in Political Science Link (src. Google Research) Authors: Michael Hughes Murakami Date Published: 2012 Date Accessed: August 23, 2022 Summary: - Experience will always be there; doing things that may not be related to what you studied but give you the opportunity to other…