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 Chris Basoglu, Partner Engineering Manager, Microsoft Technology and Research Earlier this year, Microsoft made its open source Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK), a tool used to speed up advances in artificial intelligence, available on GitHub. Today, with CNTK 1.5, we are adding significant language enhancements,…
By Jaime Puente, Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, Microsoft Research Attendees at the 2016 Microsoft Research Latin America Faculty Summit. Eleven years ago, a few of my colleagues and I envisioned a gathering of the Latin American computer science research community. We imagined the power…
By Kuansan Wang, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Dr. Kuansan Wang is the Managing Director for Microsoft Research Outreach, responsible for overseeing research and innovation in the area of academic services. Photo credit: Scott Eklund, Red Box Pictures Progress in AI research and applications is exploding, and…
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 Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research To many who swim for exercise, workouts come down to the monotony of doing laps—swimming back and forth in a pool. Over and over. Unlike other exercisers, who can make their routines less of a chore…
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…
