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Celebrating Microsoft Volunteers

Celebrating Microsoft Volunteers

As we wrap up 2025, we are reflecting with gratitude on an incredible Microsoft October Giving Campaign. Since 2022, every October, Microsoft employees have volunteered for the Human Computation Institute’s Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] project, a gamified effort that results in real Alzheimer’s research. Microsoft volunteers

We're not done saying thanks for 2024 yet! Celebrating Microsoft volunteers

We're not done saying thanks for 2024 yet! Celebrating Microsoft volunteers

New year is right around the corner, but we cannot celebrate until we've dotted all i's and crossed all the t's on 2024! 😏 We'd like to give a much deserved shoutout to this year's Microsoft's October Giving Campaign,

A Record-Breaking Month of Volunteerism: Microsoft's Annual Giving Campaign 2023!

A Record-Breaking Month of Volunteerism: Microsoft's Annual Giving Campaign 2023!

Grateful for Every Click – How Microsoft volunteers gave Alzheimer's research a huge boost through Stall Catchers

Microsoft's Volunteers, it's a wrap!

Microsoft's Volunteers, it's a wrap!

What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving? We’re thankful for the Microsoft Giving Campaign!

Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign - a time of year when volunteering blooms

Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign - a time of year when volunteering blooms

Last month alone, the Stall Catchers community grew by 1,167 new catchers! And there’s a great reason for this - October is Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign, during which employees rally to volunteer their time for a cause that feels important to them. This year, Microsoft invited Stall

Early peek at the #Dreamathon research results 📈 📊

Early peek at the #Dreamathon research results 📈 📊

We just took a first peek at the image labels you provided during the Dreamathon and wanted to circle back with some preliminary results! But first, some participation stats... 259 volunteers from around the U.S. and beyond participated in the inaugural Dreamathon by playing Dream Catchers [https://dreamcatchers.app]

Stall Catchers had a baby! 👶🏿 Introducing: Dream Catchers

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Stall Catchers had a baby! 👶🏿 Introducing: Dream Catchers

Yes, you heard that right! Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope], a citizen science game tackling Alzheimer's disease, just had a spin-off, called Dream Catchers [https://dreamcatchers.app/virtualMicroscope]! Dream Catchers is very similar to its predecessor... but it's tackling SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

The human/machine partnership solving Alzheimer's disease 📹

How do we combine the best of humans and machines in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com] - the game crowdsourcing Alzheimer's disease? It took lots of exploration of the existing machine learning algorithms, calibration of crowd wisdom algorithms, and combination of the two in the best possible way.

Are you from Seattle / Redmond area, WA? Participate in the #Megathon headquarters LIVE!

Are you from Seattle / Redmond area, WA? Participate in the #Megathon headquarters LIVE!

If you're local to Redmond / Seattle area, you have an exclusive chance to participate in the #Megathon at it's headquarters! → RSVP here [bit.ly/RedmondRSVP] ← The FREE event starts 10.30 AM PT on April 13 at the Microsoft Redmond Campus, Memphis Room, Building 92! The