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Substance, not hype, powers AI excitement at premier machine learning conference 

December 1, 2016
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…

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  1. Substance, not hype, powers AI excitement at premier machine learning conference 

    December 1, 2016

    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…

  2. Making better use of the crowd 

    December 1, 2016

    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…

  3. Top PhD students gather at Microsoft Research Asia PhD Forum 2016 

    November 29, 2016

    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…

  4. Interpreting visual art with sound for a more inclusive experience 

    November 18, 2016

    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…

  5. Events in Seoul foster artificial intelligence discussion and collaboration 

    November 11, 2016

    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…

  6. HoloLens future highlights wide ranging vision research at ECCV 

    October 7, 2016

    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…

  7. Boosting fitness and workplace performance looks to machine learning for answers 

    September 16, 2016

    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…

  8. Microsoft Research brings summer school to Russia’s emergent tech hub 

    September 1, 2016

    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…

  9. Summer school data science research could trigger real world changes 

    August 26, 2016

    By John Kaiser, Writer, Microsoft Research Microsoft Research hosted its third annual Data Science Summer School in New York City as a diverse group of undergraduate students deployed some of the latest data crunching techniques on millions of rows of anonymized data in an effort…

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