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The next phase of Microsoft Academic: intelligent bots at your service! 

May 20, 2016
By Kuansan Wang, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Dr. Kuansan Wang is the Managing Director for Microsoft Research Outreach, responsible for overseeing research and innovation in the area of academic services. Photo credit: Scott Eklund, Red Box Pictures Progress in AI research and applications is exploding, and…

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  1. The next phase of Microsoft Academic: intelligent bots at your service! 

    May 20, 2016

    By Kuansan Wang, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Dr. Kuansan Wang is the Managing Director for Microsoft Research Outreach, responsible for overseeing research and innovation in the area of academic services. Photo credit: Scott Eklund, Red Box Pictures Progress in AI research and applications is exploding, and…

  2. Microsoft Quantum Challenge results are in! 

    May 16, 2016

    By Judith Bishop, Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research Throughout his life, Albert Einstein, who pioneered the theory of relativity, was skeptical about quantum computing. He was of the opinion that the quantum mechanical theory was incomplete, and was “spooky action at a distance.” How…

  3. Two Microsoft researchers elected to National Academy of Sciences 

    May 13, 2016

    By Allison Linn, Senior Writer & George Thomas, Jr., Writer, Microsoft Yuval Peres and Robert Schapire, two Microsoft researchers known for their groundbreaking achievements in their respective fields, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The two researchers are among 84 new members…

  4. The SwimTrain exergame makes swim workouts fun again 

    May 11, 2016

    By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research To many who swim for exercise, workouts come down to the monotony of doing laps—swimming back and forth in a pool. Over and over. Unlike other exercisers, who can make their routines less of a chore…

  5. Preventing flood disasters with Cortana Intelligence Suite 

    May 5, 2016

    By Kristin Tolle, Director, Microsoft Research On October 31, 2013, the city of Austin, Texas, faced a destructive flood. At the time, I was visiting David Maidment, Chaired Professor of the Civil Engineering Center for Research in Water Resources on site at the University of…

  6. Azure egress fee waiver for the academic community 

    May 2, 2016

    By Brian Hillger, Senior Director, C+E Business Planning, Microsoft Based on Microsoft’s extensive experience engaging and working with the academic community, we strongly believe that educational institutions of all types and sizes can benefit from cloud services, for research as well as for teaching and…

  7. Simon Peyton Jones elected Fellow of the Royal Society 

    May 2, 2016

    By Jessica Watkins, Writer, Microsoft “The scientific endeavour is one of the crowning achievements of humankind, contributing to our culture and civilisation and to improving our quality of life”. The Royal Society Simon Peyton Jones is known for many things – foremost his boundless enthusiasm,…

  8. Enhanced virtual reality among new Microsoft research advances at CHI 2016 

    April 28, 2016

    By George Thomas, Jr., Writer, Microsoft Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence aren’t just improving the quality of information available to us -- they’re also making it easier to interact with the devices we use to retrieve and manipulate the information. At ACM CHI…

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