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Microsoft scientist predicts Oscar winners using big data
Last year, David Rothschild of Microsoft Research New York City used a versatile, data-driven model to predict correctly the results of the U.S. presidential election in 50 of 51 jurisdictions—the...
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Complicated is sexy: Microsoft Office versus Google Docs in situations where...
When I’m visiting New York, I have a bit of a routine I like to perform on weekends. I crave books, and I crave pizza. As it happens, two of my favorite places for doing these two things are around the...
View ArticleCode.org Uses Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Many More to...
Code.org has a great new video out about creativity, collaboration, and education, specifically about coding — what it is, how it works, and why it’s important and exciting....
View ArticleWhere are all the tech people on Washington Life magazine’s Young and the...
Mayor Vincent Gray was there. So was Rep. Darrell Issa. And entrepreneur and investor Steve Case. No, not some event in Washington, DC, but rather the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin,...
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Four Fundamental Ways To Think About Social Media
What do you say to a group of Georgetown masters’ students studying the future of communications and media? That’s what I had to figure out last week when I spoke at the Gnovis Digital Cultures...
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New York City and San Francisco’s data-centric approaches to hyperlocal open...
“All we do is take and process massive amounts of information and use it to do things more effectively,” says Michael Flowers, head of New York City’s Office of Policy and Strategic Planning (OPSP) in...
View ArticleTechnology and Tragedy at the Boston Marathon
On 9/11, I was a grad student at UC-Irvine in California. I found out about the terrorist attacks from a professor on the elevator on the way up to my laboratory. I hadn’t watched TV that morning...
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A Microsoft approach to thinking about lean government
In entrepreneurship, the idea of a “lean startup” has caught on like a firestorm. Inspired by Eric Ries’ book of the same name, lessons about doing more with less and launching “minimum viable...
View ArticleThe Rise of Citizen Developers and the Reshaping of Social Good
This is a guest post by Joel Reyes, a Microsoft Technology Evangelist working with Public Sector focused on Windows Phone and Windows 8. In his career working as a developer, project manager, people...
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Microsoft’s Geek 2 Chic charity fashion show with Bloomingdale’s coming to...
Today I am pleased to announce that the charity fashion show series Geek 2 Chic that I produce for Microsoft in partnership with Bloomingdale’s is coming to San Francisco. Geek 2 Chic: SF will take...
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