Research in Focus: Building a Better Digital Assistant

July 14, 2014
Larry Heck and Mike Calcagno | Microsoft Research, Microsoft

Hear from Larry Heck, distinguished engineer, Microsoft Research, and Mike Calcagano, Microsoft, talk about the research going into Cortana, the Windows Phone 8.1 popular personal assistant.

- Larry Heck
- Lori Stone

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Research in Focus: Building a Better Digital Assistant

Larry Heck

Lori Stone

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