By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Released less than a month ago and among the best new apps for iOS, the popular Microsoft Selfie app is adding new features. Microsoft’s Beijing based team behind the app has been paying close attention to user feedback, and…
By Bei Li, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research “The current development of computer science resembles the Renaissance in Italy of the 15th century,” said Tim Pan, director of Microsoft Research Asia, during a keynote speech on "Interdisciplinary Effect" at the 11th Forum on College Computer…
The 48th International Symposium on Microarchitecture happened last December and brought interesting discussions to bear. On the technical side, there were three very inspiring keynote speeches and a number of great presentations. The regular paper presentations were also very diverse, covering all the way from cache design,…
By Christine Clifton-Thornton, Research News Swedish Nobel organizers whose annual prizes recognize the pinnacle of human achievement turned their attention this month to human and artificial intelligence. The Nobel Week Dialogue convened leading academics, technology leaders, Nobel laureates and other luminaries in Gothenburg, Sweden to consider…
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia It’s incontrovertible that technology is changing the face of education. Today, students throughout the world conduct research online and complete their school assignments digitally. Many students have access to laptops or tablets provided by their…
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research A team led by a Microsoft researcher has won the prestigious Marr prize in computer vision research for a paper that presents an alternative to what is currently the most popular method of teaching computers to recognize images.…
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…
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