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…
By Kristin Tolle, Principal Program Manager, Machine Learning and Kenji Takeda, Solutions Architect, Microsoft Research Data science can be a superpower. While we can’t solve all the ills of the world with machine learning, applying data science to just about any problem nudges us a little…
By Chris Basoglu, Partner Engineering Manager, Microsoft Technology and Research Earlier this year, Microsoft made its open source Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK), a tool used to speed up advances in artificial intelligence, available on GitHub. Today, with CNTK 1.5, we are adding significant language enhancements,…
Jeannette M. Wing Photo credit: Scott Eklund/Red Box pictures Microsoft’s Jeannette M. Wing will serve as an evaluating judge for a new competition to award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places or the…
By Jaime Puente, Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, Microsoft Research Attendees at the 2016 Microsoft Research Latin America Faculty Summit. Eleven years ago, a few of my colleagues and I envisioned a gathering of the Latin American computer science research community. We imagined the power…
Is Pluto a planet? And how is that question related to Data Science? For sure, physical properties of Pluto do not change if we call it a "planet", a "dwarf planet", a "candelabrum", or a "sea cow". Pluto stays the same Pluto regardless of all…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Microsoft researchers are looking at ways to better secure both the latest, cutting-edge consumer technologies and the more traditional tools that we rely on for everyday activities like accessing bank records and identifying ourselves at work. The researchers will…
Citing 25 years of significant impact on software engineering research, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering has awarded Microsoft Research the 2016 TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award. The award was presented Thursday, May 19, at the International Conference on Software Engineering in Austin,…
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