Many of the items and objects we use in our daily lives were designed with people in mind. In October, the Reserve Bank of Australia put out into the world its redesigned $100 banknote. Some design elements remained the same—such as color and size, characteristics…
Microsoft researchers pursue the big questions about what the world will be like in the future and the role technology will play. Not only do they take on the responsibility of exploring the long-term vision of their research, but they must also be ready to…
Computer vision has rapidly evolved over the past decade, allowing for such applications as Seeing AI, a camera app that describes aloud a person’s surroundings, helping those who are blind or have low vision; systems that can detect whether a product, such as a computer…
Pretrained language models have been a hot research topic in natural language processing. These models, such as BERT, are usually pretrained on large-scale language corpora with carefully designed pretraining objectives and then fine-tuned on downstream tasks to boost the accuracy. Among these, masked language modeling…
As human beings, we encounter unfamiliar situations all the time—learning to drive, living on our own for the first time, starting a new job. And while we can anticipate what to expect based on what others have told us or what we’ve picked up from…
According to the CDC WONDER Online Database (opens in new tab), heart disease is currently the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. However, most deaths due to cardiovascular diseases could be prevented with suitable interventions. Early detection of…
AI is taking on an increasingly important role in many Microsoft products, such as Bing and Office 365. In some cases, it’s being used to power outward-facing features like semantic search in Microsoft Word or intelligent answers in Bing, and deep neural networks (DNNs) are…
We are going through a new shift in machine learning (ML), where ML models are increasingly being used to automate decision-making in a multitude of domains: what personalized treatment should be administered to a patient, what discount should be offered to an online customer, and…
Editor’s note: The section “Modeling individual players’ styles with Maia” has been updated as of July 12, 2021. As artificial intelligence continues its rapid progress, equaling or surpassing human performance on benchmarks in an increasing range of tasks, researchers in the field are directing more…
Up to half of the population in the United States (opens in new tab) and United Kingdom (opens in new tab) will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. Of those, half will be treated with radiotherapy (RT), often in combination with…
For those of us who have transitioned to working from home over the course of the last year, we must navigate a strange new manifestation of mobility. Far-flung colleagues appear almost magically in grid format on a screen right in front of our faces, despite…
Cloud services have become the new critical infrastructure, and cloud expectations have transformed how developers work. The number of cloud services that are business-critical continues to grow every day, with no end in sight. And the era of boxed software is over: developers are now…
