By John Kaiser, Research News Convex optimization, prized for its efficiency and utility in solving small and medium-size problems across multiple disciplines, could soon be extended to handle much larger problems and tasks, such as those found in image and vision processing. Explaining how and…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft For Sudipta Sengupta, Microsoft Research is a magical place. "At Microsoft and the places I was at previously, my work has often been in collaboration with researchers and engineers, so I have benefitted a lot from interacting with and…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Cynthia Dwork, Mary Czerwinski and Sriram Rajamani Three Microsoft researchers have been honored as Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery for their significant contributions to the development and application of computing across multiple disciplines. Mary Czerwinski, whose work…
By Xuedong Huang, Chief Speech Scientist, Microsoft Xuedong Huang (Photo by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures) For more than 20 years, Microsoft has invested in advanced speech recognition research and development. It’s great to see the return on that investment in products and services such as…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research When Hanna Wallach learned that Jenn Wortman Vaughan also would be attending a major machine learning conference a decade ago, she was happy just to have another woman to share a hotel room with. A conversation in that…
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Deep learning is all around us. As part of the broad discipline that is machine learning, deep learning increasingly is embedded in our daily lives. Skype Translator is learning how to translate spoken words into more and more languages in…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Adding to an already lengthy list of accolades, Li Deng, partner research manager in Microsoft's Redmond, Wash. lab, has received the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep learning and to automatic speech…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Researchers at the Microsoft Asia research lab this week made the Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit openly available to the developer community. The toolkit, available now on GitHub, is designed for distributed machine learning -- using multiple computers in…
By Derek Chiou, Partner Architect, Microsoft At this year’s Supercomputing 2015 Conference in Austin, Texas, Microsoft is announcing the availability of Project Catapult clusters to academic researchers through the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Project Catapult, a Microsoft…
By Dan Fay, Senior Director, Microsoft Research What would you create with a Microsoft HoloLens? Ask a group of gamers and you’ll likely get some cutting-edge suggestions for virtual reality shootouts, but beyond gaming there are many other ways to use Microsoft HoloLens to connect, create,…
By John Kaiser, Research News A 21-month study on the dynamics of crowdsourcing shows workers depend on collaborating with each other, upending platform designers’ long-held assumptions of crowdsourcing tasks performed in isolation. “People spend far more time on a task, trying to get it right,…
Posted by Allison Linn When most people use automated speech recognition technology today, it's because they have a task that needs to get done: A person to call, directions to get, a quick text to send. In China, millions of people are using this type…
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