November 22, 2014
Associate Professor Mary Gray is currently working on a book project, co-authored with Computer Scientist Siddharth Suri, that examines the future of employment through case studies of present day crowdwork on four different crowdsourcing platforms - including Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk, Microsoft’s Universal Human Relevance System, and MobileWorks, a startup with a social and entrepreneurial mission - comparing workers' experiences in the United States and India.
Gray is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, New England, in addition to maintaining an appointment as an Associate Professor in the Media School, with adjunct appointments in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies, at Indiana University. She presented a talk about the crowdwork project in a 'hot topics' session of the 2014 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.
Read a January 2016 Op-Ed she wrote for the LA Times about the project.