Social Networking
Our research focuses on the system design, algorithmic, and phenomenological questions that arise in social and collaborative systems. We are interested in the broad space of networking applications where the actions of humans are a critical factor for efficient system operation – social networking. |
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TagBooster
Ways to recommend tags and their effect on tags selected by users. More... |
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Albatross
Mobile social systems that leverage device to device contacts. More... |
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Ad-hoc channels
Efficient podcast service by leveraging device to device contacts. More... |
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Consensus
Opinion formation with limited processing and communication. More... |
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Faces
Efficient ranking of items grouped in lists, e.g. for polls. More... |
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Email 2.0
Understanding email and its enhancements with social networking features. More... |
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News
- Aug 2008, new technical report (Consensus project) --
Using Three States for Binary Consensus on Complete Graphs, E. Perron, D. Vasudevan, and M. Vojnovic, under submission 2008.
- July 2008, new paper (TagBooster project) -- Social Tags: Meaning and Suggestions,
F. Suchanek, M. Vojnovic, and D. Gunawardena, CIKM 2008.
- July 2008, paper submission -- Ranking and Suggesting Popular Items, M. Vojnovic, J. Cruise,
D. Gunawardena, P. Marbach.
- WOSN 2008, the First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks
- Workshop on Online Social Networks, MSR Cambridge, December 7, 2007
Primary Contact: Milan Vojnovic
Collaborators
Alumni
- Dominic DiPalantino, Stanford University, Intern - summer 08.
- Ingmar Weber, EPFL, Visiting Researcher - summer 08.
- Fabian Suchanek, Max-Planck fur Informatik, Intern - summer 07.
- James Cruise, University of Cambridge, Intern - summer 06.
- Varun Gupta, CMU, Intern - summer 06.
- Peter Marbach, University of Toronto, Visiting Researcher - summer 06.
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- The Cambridge Systems & Networking group is always looking for interns and Post-docs. For more information, visit Microsoft Research Careers.
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