Glen Weyl
Eric Glen Weyl (born May 6, 1985) is an economist and a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and author of the book ''Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society'' with co-author Eric Posner. Weyl is co-creator of quadratic voting, a collective decision-making procedure designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about an issue, and quadratic funding, a method of democratically disbursing resources. Early life and education Weyl was born in San Francisco, and grew up in Palo Alto, California. He is Jewish. Growing up, his family favored the Democratic Party. As a youth Weyl also embraced free market beliefs after being introduced to the works of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman. Weyl graduated Choate Rosemary Hall preparatory high school in 2003, where he won the Douglass North award for economics and the William Gardner and Mary Atwater Choate Award for outstanding male scholar. He went on to attend Princeton University ...
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Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technological innovation in collaboration with academic, government, and industry researchers. The Microsoft Research team has more than 1,000 computer scientists, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians, including Turing Award winners, Fields Medal winners, MacArthur Fellows, and Dijkstra Prize winners. Between 2010 and 2018, 154,000 AI patents were filed worldwide, with Microsoft having by far the largest percentage of those patents, at 20%.Louis Columbus, January 6, 201Microsoft Leads The AI Patent Race Going Into 2019 ''Forbes'' According to estimates in trade publications, Microsoft spent about $6 billion annually in research initiatives from 2002-2010 and has spent from $10–14 billion annually since 2010. Microsoft Research has made signi ...
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