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Researchers develop new visual intelligence techniques to boost smart home security 

June 16, 2017
By Kangping Liu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Imagine when you leave your house or apartment that a smart home security system can automatically "look after" your home, giving you real-time notices about events happening at home, or providing you with a short…

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  1. QA model

    A Joint Model for Question Answering and Question Generation 

    June 9, 2017

    At the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, one of our primary research focuses is to advance the field of Question Answering. Automatic question-answering systems can provide humans with efficient access to vast amounts of information, and the task also acts as an important proxy for assessing…

  2. NSF Big Data Innovation Hubs collaboration

    NSF Big Data Innovation Hubs collaboration — looking back after one year 

    June 8, 2017

    By Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science Significant technical advancements in cloud computing have led to lower infrastructure costs, making possible big storage and big computing. Big data technology, though, requires cross-discipline research within and beyond non-computing domains. This is where domain experts collaborate with computing…

  3. Malmo Collaborative Challenge

    Presenting the winners of the Project Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge 

    June 5, 2017

    By Noburu Kuno, Senior Research Program Manager; Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Principal Research Program Manager As we move from narrow AI to more general AI, it will be important to instill machines with the ability to work together with both other agents and humans. Project Malmo, which…

  4. A snapshot from AirSim shows an aerial vehicle flying in an urban environment, training for real-world AI

    Toward AI that operates in the real world 

    May 29, 2017

    By Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research It’s an exciting time to be a machine intelligence researcher. Recent successes in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), which span from achieving human-level parity in speech recognition to beating world champions in board games, indicate the promise of…

  5. Holograms: The future of near-eye display?

    Holograms: The future of near-eye display? 

    May 19, 2017

    By Andrew Maimone, Researcher; Andreas Georgiou, Researcher; Joel Kollin, Principal Research Hardware Development Engineer Last week at the SCIEN Workshop on Augmented and Mixed Reality, a group of industry and academic researchers met to discuss the future of virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR). One goal was clear: we’d…

  6. P: A programming language designed for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty

    P: A programming language designed for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty 

    May 19, 2017

    By Shaz Qadeer, Principal Researcher The complexity of emerging software applications requires new approaches to understanding and then efficiently building, testing and debugging these systems. Today’s software uses cloud resources, is often embedded in devices in the physical world and employs artificial intelligence techniques. These…

  7. Maluuba Question Generation video

    Advancing machine comprehension with question generation 

    May 10, 2017

    Microsoft Research Montreal lab's vision is to create machines that can comprehend, reason and communicate with humans. We see a future where humans interact with machines just as they would with another human. We could ask a question in natural language and have the machine…

  8. Supersingular Isogeny

    Where cryptography and quantum computing intersect 

    May 8, 2017

    By Kristin Lauter, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Last week I spent time at the American Institute of Mathematics in San Jose, working with a group of 20 or so mathematicians and computer scientists on questions related to quantum arithmetic, at a conference co-organized by researchers…

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