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  1. Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research 

    February 15, 2018 | Meredith Ringel Morris

    Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish line and enter the workforce. The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant…

  2. Improving AI Systems with Human Feedback and no Heartburn 

    February 8, 2018 | Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, and Susan Dumais

    Humans play an indispensable role in many modern AI-enabled services – not just as consumers of the service, but as the actual intelligence behind the artificial intelligence. From news portals to e-commerce websites, it is people’s ratings, clicks, and other interactions which provide a teaching…

  3. Microsoft researchers unlock the black box of network embedding 

    February 7, 2018 | Kuansan Wang

    At the ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining 2018, my team will introduce research that, for the first time, provides a theoretical explanation of popular methods used to automatically map the structure and characteristics of networks, known as network embedding. We then use…

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    Getting LinkedIn to Data Science with Dr. Igor Perisic 

    February 7, 2018

    Episode 11, February 7, 2018 - Big data is a big deal, and if you follow the popular technical press, you’ll have heard all the metaphors: data is the new oil, the new bacon, the new currency, the new electricity. It’s even been called the…

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    New institute explores the future of Cortana 

    February 1, 2018 | Roy Zimmermann

    Today marks the establishment of the Cortana Intelligence Institute – a new, co-funded collaboration between Microsoft Research, Cortana Research and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, to work on next-generation capabilities for Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana. At Microsoft, we are constantly looking for opportunities to learn…

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    Life at the Intersection of AI and Society with Dr. Ece Kamar 

    January 24, 2018

    Episode 9, January 24, 2018 - As the reality of artificial intelligence continues to capture our imagination, and critical AI systems enter our world at a rapid pace, Dr. Ece Kamar, a senior researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research, is…

  7. Class of 2018-19 PhD fellows to push frontiers of AI 

    January 9, 2018 | Sandy Blyth

    Class of 2018-19 PhD fellows to push frontiers of AI By Sandy Blyth A graduate student working on technology that leverages human brain signals to accelerate robot learning and another student who is developing models of human conversations that capture what is explicitly communicated and…