Resources for the General Reader

• On "six degrees of separation" between people (CNBC video), Washington Post, Nature article, short presentation (Princeton, 2009), additional information.
  
  
• Series on Data Analytics: From Data to Knowledge to Action, Computing Community Consortium, September 2010.
  
  
• Discussion on "A Golden Era of Insight", February 2013.
  
  
• TEDx presentation on People, Computation, and Intelliegence, TEDx Austin, February 2013 (fun photo).
  
  
• Challenge and Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Bay Area Science Festival Dialog at the Computer History Museum.
  
  
• Machine Learning and Intelligence in our Midst, Techfest presentation, March 2012.
  
  
• Short video on Lifebrowser, on machine learning about memory landmarks.
  
  
• Predictive analytics in healthcare, on methods shipping in Amalga.
  
  
• Work on predictive analytics for traffic and routing, including methods shipping in Bing Maps
  
  
• Surprise Modeling - video (Technology Review, Ten Emerging Technologies).
  
  
• Minds, Machines, and Intelligence: A Conversation, Behind the Code series.
  
  
• A Fifty-Year Forecast: Reflection on the Future (New Scientist)
  
  
• Presentation on vision systems in human-computer interaction, with focus on work on surface computing (Gartner meeting, San Francisco).
  
  
• AAAI Presidential Panel on Long-Term AI Futures (access interim report; AP news).
  
  
• Overview video on efforts on Situated Interaction project, focused on open-world dialog.
  
  
• Discovery Channel visit to Microsoft Research exploring technology behind an automated admin named PASS (for Personal Assistant for Scheduling System).
  
  
• On Computational Visions of the Holodeck (Science of Start Trek, World Science Festival, 2010).
  
  
• Radio discussion on long-term directions with AI (NPR LA).
  
  
• News story on efforts with dialog systems and speech recognition (New York Times).
  
  
• Backstory of an Avatar Revealed
  
  
• Medical Bayesian kiosk, video demo showing multiparty dialog in a diagnostic triage setting.
  
  
• Study of medical search on the web, "cyberchondria" (NY Times, Washington Post stories; Scientific American and American Public Radio podcasts).
  
  
• Artificial Intelligence Theory and Practice: Hard Challenges and Opportunities Ahead (panel discussion), Faculty Summit, Microsoft Research, July 2008 (video, photo).
  
  
• Presentation of Notification Platform project as part of Bill Gates keynote at CHI 2001, Seattle, April 2001 (photo, video).
  
  
• Man-Made Minds: Living with Thinking Machines (World Science Festival, 2011 - photo).
  
  
• Computing Futures: Directions and Reflections (video) (presentation at Connected Health Conference, June 2009).
  
  
• How Much is Your Time Worth?
  
  
• Overview video on efforts in notifications, attention, interaction
  
  
• Discussion about Artificial Intelligence (Charlie Rose Show).
  
  
• Microsoft Sees Software Agent as Way to Avoid Distractions (NY Times)
  
  
• Considerate Computing (Scientific American)
  
  
• Reflections on Challenges and Promises of Mixed-Initiative Interaction (Forward to a collection of articles, AI Magazine)
  
  
• On the promise of intelligent tutoring systems from Understanding the Odds in Life documentary. Other clips: Decisions vs. outcomes, Human judgment, and Bayes rule.
  
  
• Models of Attention in Computing and Communications: From Principles to Applications (Communications of the ACM)
  
  
• Whitepaper on Data, Predictions, and Decisions from Computing Community Consortium.
  
  
• Whitepaper Directions with Computing in Healthcare from Computing Community Consortium.
  
  
• R. White and E. Horvitz. Predicting Escalations of Medical Queries Based on Web Page Structure and Content, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010.
  
  
• Automated Triage of Email in the Outlook Mobile Manager
  
  
• All the News that Fit to Read
  
  
• Toward Courteous Automated Assistants
  
  
• Preferences about Privacy and Sharing
  
  
• Zooming in on Small Devices
  
  
• Predestination: Where Do You Want to Go Today? (IEEE Computer)
  
  
• A Study of Preferences for Sharing and Privacy. (CHI 2005)
  
  
• A Curse of Riches or a Blessing? Information Access and Awareness under Scarce Cognitive Resources (Keynote summary, Adaptive Hypermedia)
  
  
• Uncertainty, Action, and Interaction: In Pursuit of Mixed-Initiative Computing. (IEEE Intelligent Systems)
  
  
• Challenge Problems for Artificial Intelligence. (AAAI)