By Susan Dumais, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Women are woefully under-represented in computing-related fields. Despite earning more than half of all baccalaureate degrees throughout North America, women make up fewer than 20 percent of graduates in computer and information sciences, according to the latest figures…
By Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology and Research, Microsoft Today we launched the Microsoft Research Alumni Network on LinkedIn as part of the 25th Anniversary of Microsoft Research (MSR). The LinkedIn group is dedicated to connecting the thousands of past MSR employees, postdoctoral researchers…
By Harold Javid, General Chair, Faculty Summit Microsoft Research’s annual Faculty Summit opened Wednesday with a series of talks about how technological innovation can benefit both business and society. In a fireside chat with Jeannette M. Wing, Microsoft's corporate vice president in charge of the company's basic…
By Eric Horvitz, Managing Director, Microsoft Research We are excited to once again support the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), which runs Saturday, July 9, through Friday, July 15, in New York City. IJCAI is a leading international conference in the field…
By Alex Wade, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Research The preliminary results are in for the third and final round of the $10,000 KDD Cup 2016, and it was a squeaker! The top ten finalists, out of a field of 3,773 submissions from 554 teams, were…
By Guobin Wu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia What does it take to make it to the “decisive round for the finest few” in the Beauty of Programming Contest 2016? Earlier this year, 60 young experts gathered at the Microsoft Shanghai campus to…
By Andrew Fitzgibbon, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge This year, the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) will take place at Caesar's Palace from June 26–July 1 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CVPR is the premier annual computer vision event that includes the…
By Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science Outreach, Microsoft Research Microsoft Research is proud to support the US-wide National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs (BD Hubs) program by awarding $3M in Microsoft Azure cloud computing credits. NSF supports four regional hubs for data science innovation,…
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…
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