Social Algorithms at MSR-SVC
This is an umbrella project for several related efforts at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley in the areas of social network analysis and human computation.
Current projects
- Adaptive crowd-selection in crowdsourcing
People: Ittai Abraham, Omar Alonso, Vasilis Kandylas and Alex Slivkins - Latent social structure in a social network
People: Ittai Abraham, David Kempe, Shiri Chechik and Alex Slivkins
Writeups: Latent similarities in a multiplex social network (2012). - Incentives for information propagation in network
People: Moshe Babaioff, Shahar Dobzinski, Sigal Oren and Aviv Zohar
Writeups: On Bitcoin and red baloons; Non-technical summary. - Selection and influence in cultural dynamics
People: David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg, Sigal Oren and Alex Slivkins - Contagion in financial networks
People: Koralai Kirabaeva, Sigal Oren and Alex Slivkins
External visitors and collaborators
Omar Alonso (Microsoft)
Shiri Chechik (Weizmann; intern at MSR-SV in summer 2010)
Shahar Dobzinski (Cornell -> Weizmann)
Vasilis Kandylas (Microsoft)
David Kempe (USC)
Koralai Kirabaeva (IMF)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell)
Sigal Oren (Cornell; intern at MSR-SV in summer 2011)



