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The Power of Local Information in Social Networks

Christian Borgs, Michael Brautbar, Jennifer Chayes, Sanjeev Khanna, Brendan Lucier

Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE) | January 2012

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The Fate of a Digital Slate: Unexpected Issues with Deployment in Rural India

Indrani Medhi Thies, Anuj Tewari, Mohit Jain, Ed Cutrell

User Experience Magazine | January 2012, Vol 11

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Personality and Website Choice

Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, Pushmeet Kohli, , Yoram Bachrach, Thore Graepel

ACM Web Sciences 2012 | January 2012

ACM Web Sciences 2012

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Colonel Blotto On Facebook: The Effect of Social Relations On Strategic Interaction

Yoram Bachrach, David Stillwell, Michael Kearns, Ralf Herbrich, Thore Graepel, Pushmeet Kohli

ACM Web Sciences 2012 | January 2012

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Mind the Gap: Learning to Choose Gaps for Question Generation

Lee Becker, Sumit Basu, Lucy Vanderwende

Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2012 | January 2012

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Predicting Responses to Microblog Posts

Yoav Artzi, Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon

January 2012

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Crowd IQ: Measuring the Intelligence of Crowdsourcing Platforms

Michal Kosinski, Yoram Bachrach, Gjergji Kasneci, Jurgen Van Gael, Thore Graepel

ACM Web Sciences 2012 | January 2012

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Shades of lightweight: Supporting cross-generational communication through home messaging

Universal Access in the Information Society | January 2012, pp. 31-43

Microsoft Research Blog

So.cl Gives Students a New Way to Learn

December 15, 2011

By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center The web, search, and social networking are changing the way students collaborate. To bring these elements together, Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs is launching a site designed to…

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Which Networks Are Least Susceptible to Cascading Failures?

December 8, 2011 | Jon Kleinberg

The spread of a cascading failure through a network is an issue that comes up in many domains: in the contagious failures that spread among financial institutions during a financial crisis, through nodes of a…

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