Alex Williams

Principal Applied Sciences Manager @Microsoft | Opinions are my own.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Excel has quietly been Turing complete for a long time. Nice to see it now edging toward "AI complete"—SGD, attention, next-token prediction… all in cells.

[Gagan Bansal @bansalg_]

📢 AI Agent Internships at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers

If you want to work with me/our team apply below!

PhD student in CS/STEM + strong programming skills are a must.

https://t.co/sZ88oAU2eZ

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

What kind of AI does the world really want?

At @MicrosoftAI, we’re working towards Humanist Superintelligence (HSI): incredibly advanced AI capabilities that always work for, in service of, people and humanity.

And to do this we have formed the MAI Superintelligence Team.

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@zachary_horvitz @Google @_rk_singhal Congratulations!

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@_rnbrewer Congratulations, Robin!

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@jdzamfi @bryanhaoenwang It's easy for me to imagine this paper being recognized years from now as being a flagship example of the movement toward "interfaces for navigating the unknown". Excellent work!

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@amyxzh @SocFuturesLab Congratulations, Amy!!!

[Alex Williams @acwio]

Congratulations, @LydiaChilton!

[Sloan Foundation @SloanFoundation]

🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. https://t.co/MO8q8eABH4

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@roryzzhang @yunyao_li @AdobeExpCloud Congratulations, Zheng! Excited to see what you accomplish.

[Alex Williams @acwio]

If you're thinking about doing a PhD in AI/HCI, look no further. 👀

[Dakuo Wang @dakuowang]

📢Hiring fully-funded PhD/Postdoc/MS interested in the broad human+AI research topic.
- How do humans work with humans (#CSCW)?
- How to design AI to support humans work with humans (#HumanCenteredAI)?
- How does AI work with humans? (#HumanAICollaboraiton)

I'm traveling at #cscw2024 from Nov 11 to 13, and at #EMNLP2024 from 13 to 16. Talk to me in person! or, you can also contact me via this form
https://t.co/kuS2EHvknc

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@DavLedo @IanArawjo Literally my go-to reference for justifying all-things toolkit, and to some degree all-things systems. It's a staple!

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

I've seen enough

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@IanArawjo Koji Yatani's reference website on Statistical Methods for HCI Research is sufficient for most use-cases. It's also a stellar educational resource.

https://t.co/XT9mrn6eTh.

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@ShriramKMurthi @AlexKale17 @IanArawjo It might be this one by Lewis et al.?

https://t.co/rWv5n3uqf3

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@infoxiao Pretty stellar. Congratulations to you and the team!

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@julia_kiseleva @MSFTResearch Congratulations, @julia_kiseleva!

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@_sharonferguson @UWaterloo Congratulations! Waterloo is lucky to have you.

[Alex Williams @acwio]

Proud moment!

[Senjuti Dutta @senjutidutta2]

I’ve officially defended my PhD and become Dr. Dutta! Huge thanks to my advisors, committee, collaborators, Dr. @scottruoti , Dr. @AnaKuzminykh , Dr. @acwio , Dr. Audris Mockus , Dr. @rhemalinder and my family members and friends who supported me! 🙏 #PhD #Graduation #Grateful

[Alex Williams @acwio]

@FarnazJ_ If I remember correctly, we asked them to describe how they spent the downtime. We felt like asking them for something more validating (eg. a photograph of what they did). Asking them to video themselves during the break isn't exactly immune to issues either!