Talking to machines to get things done We have become familiar with talking to personal assistants such as SIRI or Cortana to get simple tasks accomplished. A popular feature is setting reminders: it is more efficient to say everything in one sentence instead of entering…
A key tenet of AI research states that intelligent machines should be able to make decisions and learn from environmental feedback similar to humans. To this end, much effort has been made in the area of reinforcement learning (RL). Despite the recent advances in the…
By Christopher Bishop, Distinguished Scientist and Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge Lab This month, I will attend the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), the premier gathering in the machine learning field. I’ve participated in this conference most years since it began…
By Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Over the last decade, computer scientists have harnessed crowds of Internet users to solve tasks that are notoriously difficult to crack with computers alone, such as determining whether an image contains a tree, rating the relevance of…
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Since its inception in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has anointed nearly 400 top researchers with the coveted honor of “Microsoft Research Fellow.” Some of them recently returned to Beijing, sharing their insights and best practices…
By Vanessa Ho, Microsoft News Center Staff. Follow her on Twitter. A well-known Scottish landscape painter, Keith Salmon creates ethereal, moody abstracts of skylines and mountains inspired by the rugged highlands in his country. Trained in fine arts and sculpture, Salmon has broadened his techniques…
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia More than 1,700 students and faculty members attended the 18th annual Computing in the 21st Century Conference 2016 last week in Seoul. It was the second time the conference, organized by Microsoft Research Asia, has…
By Winnie Cui, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia When your grandma posts a video to the cloud, there it lies, lonely and unwatched, unless your grandmother has more tagging and titling skills than mine does. My nana loves taking family videos with her…
By Marc Pollefeys, Partner Director of Science, HoloLens and Jamie Shotton, Partner Scientist Lead, HoloLens We are pleased to announce Microsoft's Platinum sponsorship of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in Amsterdam from October 8-16. ECCV is one of the top international conferences on…
By Kenji Takeda, Director, Azure for Research, Microsoft Research Microsoft is excited to be empowering researchers at The Alan Turing Institute to achieve more by awarding $5 million in Microsoft Azure cloud computing credits. The Turing is the U.K.'s national center for data science, with…
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research A field study exploring the usability of integrating fitness equipment into a workstation environment has researchers looking to tap next-generation machine learning innovations to address the seemingly elusive challenge of burning calories without ever leaving the…
By John Kaiser, Writer, Microsoft Microsoft Research recently concluded its eighth annual summer school in Kazan, Russia, challenging students to conceptualize and build new applications from the sensors and devices emerging from the Internet of Things (IoT). “Our summer schools are an opportunity to expose…
