By Andrew Fitzgibbon, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge This year, the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) will take place at Caesar's Palace from June 26–July 1 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CVPR is the premier annual computer vision event that includes the…
By Isabelle Guyon, Professor, University Paris-Saclay, and President, ChaLearn If you are attending this year’s ICML conference in New York City, June 19–24, be sure to drop by the AutoML workshop and congratulate Team AAD Freiburg, the winners of the Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) Challenge.…
By Athima Chansanchai, Microsoft News Center Staff Machine learning covers a lot of ground. At Microsoft, it’s being incorporated to detect lies, recognize human responses and forecast finances; as well as improve search, natural language processing, advertising, security and gaming. It’s a broad discipline that…
By Jeannette M. Wing, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research “Self-driving cars. Robots at work, at home, at play. Drones for package delivery and pathogen surveillance. Energy-efficient, earthquake-proof buildings. Jet engines monitored and controlled by networks of sensors and actuators. Embedded medical devices. Unobtrusive assistive technology. …
By Vani Mandava, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Research People often rank public speaking as the number one fear that they face. New cloud-based technology from researchers at the University of Rochester lets speakers polish and practice at home in front of their computer camera, while the…
By Kristin Tolle, Principal Program Manager, Machine Learning and Kenji Takeda, Solutions Architect, Microsoft Research Data science can be a superpower. While we can’t solve all the ills of the world with machine learning, applying data science to just about any problem nudges us a little…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer & George Thomas, Jr., Writer, Microsoft Yuval Peres and Robert Schapire, two Microsoft researchers known for their groundbreaking achievements in their respective fields, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The two researchers are among 84 new members…
By Kristin Tolle, Director, Microsoft Research On October 31, 2013, the city of Austin, Texas, faced a destructive flood. At the time, I was visiting David Maidment, Chaired Professor of the Civil Engineering Center for Research in Water Resources on site at the University of…
By George Thomas, Jr., Writer, Microsoft Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence aren’t just improving the quality of information available to us -- they’re also making it easier to interact with the devices we use to retrieve and manipulate the information. At ACM CHI…
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia When we focus on people first, great projects and new technologies can’t be far behind. This perspective guides Microsoft Research’s activities in every region, and Korea is no exception. Our very first partnership discussions in Korea…
Jeannette M. Wing Photo credit: Scott Eklund/Red Box pictures By Jeannette M. Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research “Think Bolder, Aim Higher” is a mantra I’ve been chanting since my arrival at Microsoft three years ago. I’ve wanted to encourage our scientists and engineers to…
By Daron Green, Director, Microsoft Research Every year since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme has awarded scholarships to fund PhD students’ work on selected projects in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. We are pleased to announce the selected PhD projects…
