By Christine Clifton-Thornton, Research News Swedish Nobel organizers whose annual prizes recognize the pinnacle of human achievement turned their attention this month to human and artificial intelligence. The Nobel Week Dialogue convened leading academics, technology leaders, Nobel laureates and other luminaries in Gothenburg, Sweden to consider…
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Deep learning is all around us. As part of the broad discipline that is machine learning, deep learning increasingly is embedded in our daily lives. Skype Translator is learning how to translate spoken words into more and more languages in…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Adding to an already lengthy list of accolades, Li Deng, partner research manager in Microsoft's Redmond, Wash. lab, has received the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep learning and to automatic speech…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Researchers at the Microsoft Asia research lab this week made the Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit openly available to the developer community. The toolkit, available now on GitHub, is designed for distributed machine learning -- using multiple computers in…
Posted by Allison Linn When most people use automated speech recognition technology today, it's because they have a task that needs to get done: A person to call, directions to get, a quick text to send. In China, millions of people are using this type…
Editorial note: The CIKM 2015 Machine Learning Competition asked participants to predict the outcomes of every match in the Australian 2015 football league season. The competition received more than 90 submissions from the machine learning community. Sports bookmaker Hung Doan won the competition using just…
Posted by Jeannette M. Wing The Internet, global positioning systems, the laser, multi-touch displays and search engines. What do these have in common? These technologies, which we take for granted today, came out of basic scientific research. Basic research creates knowledge. It advances our fundamental…
Making search better by slowing it down will be explored in the welcoming keynote when CIKM convenes in Melbourne, Australia this week. In “Slow Search: Improving Information Retrieval Using Human Assistance,” Principal Researcher Jaime Teevan will share some of the latest findings coming out of…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Research Researchers have for years sought to understand the way opinions are formed and disseminated throughout social settings. Is there such a thing as the wisdom of the crowd? New research presented at this year’s International Joint Conference on…
A novel method of structuring the largest and most complex datasets—from social networks to global financial markets—has won a Best Paper award at the world’s leading academic conference on machine learning. In the paper, A Nearly-Linear Time Framework for Graph-Structured Sparsity, by Chinmay Hegde, Piotr…
The first week of July didn’t just see the arrival of extraordinarily high temperatures across Europe—it also brought extraordinarily high energy to Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, as 81 top PhD students gathered for the tenth annual Microsoft Research Cambridge PhD Summer School. Hailing from 35…
A study of new algorithms that improve “online boosting” has won a Best Paper award at the world’s leading academic conference on machine learning. In the paper, Optimal and Adaptive Algorithms for Online Boosting, by Alina Beygelzimer, Satyen Kale, and Haipeng Luo, delivered to the recent…
