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  1. Preview of ACM’s Multimedia Conference Oct 29 keynote address 

    October 26, 2015

    Zhengyou Zhang, research manager and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, will present his team’s latest advances in immersive human-human telecommunications at ACM’s annual multimedia conference in Brisbane, Australia. The 2015 ACM Multimedia Conference runs from October 26-30. View the full conference program. In an October 29…

  2. ACM MM: Best Papers 

    October 26, 2015

    Below are the best papers from ACM Multimedia 2015. Analyzing Free-standing Conversational Groups: A Multimodal Approach Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Yan Yan (University of Trento, Italy), Elisa Ricci, Oswald Lanz (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy), Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy) During natural social gatherings, humans tend to…

  3. CIKM: Sports bookie wins machine learning competition 

    October 21, 2015

    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…

  4. Here’s why Microsoft cares about basic research — and you should, too 

    October 19, 2015

    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…

  5. CIKM: “Slow Search with People” highlights welcoming keynote 

    October 18, 2015

    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…

  6. Meeting the data challenges of urban computing 

    September 11, 2015

    Many people living in the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong have a new habit: they check the air pollution index before venturing outside. Air quality has deteriorated rapidly in China, with nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter levels frequently exceeding safety guidelines set by the…

  7. UBICOMP 2015: Best paper awards 

    September 7, 2015

    The winners of the best paper award for UBICOMP 2015 go to:   DeepEar: Robust Smartphone Audio Sensing in Unconstrained Acoustic Environments Using Deep Learning by Nicholas Lane, Petko Georgiev, Lorena Qendro Microphones are remarkably powerful sensors of human behavior and context. However, audio sensing is…

  8. Making machines speak like people 

    August 10, 2015

    In the 1999 American film Bicentennial Man, the late Robin Williams played a robot who strives to achieve the physical, social and legal status of a human being. The character’s growing language capabilities—his capacity to communicate fluently with his human family—proved crucial in his quest.…