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  1. 2015 Faculty Summit informs and inspires 

    July 15, 2015

    The 2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit is over, but I am still recovering my voice from all the great hallway conversations! The summit reminded my fellow Microsoft researchers, our myriad collaborators in academia, and me of what we have already accomplished and the exciting opportunities…

  2. Young coders compete in 2015 Beauty of Programming 

    July 10, 2015

    On May 27, 2015, Suzhou, a historic, scenic city in southeast China, hosted this year’s finals of the Beauty of Programming (BoP) competition, a creative contest among talented young programmers. Sponsored by Microsoft in collaboration with IEEE, BoP encourages contestants to use their programming skills…

  3. Exploring the frontiers of computing 

    July 9, 2015

    The sun shone brightly in Redmond yesterday, matching the intensity of 600 experts—each anticipating the sharing and acquisition of computing research knowledge—gathered in the Microsoft Conference Center for day one of the 2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. These days, it is common for most audiences…

  4. The 2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit breaks records 

    July 8, 2015

    Walking into the Microsoft Conference Center this morning, I could feel the excitement in the air as 600 academics and researchers started meeting up for the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington. High on the agenda of this, our sixteenth annual Faculty Summit, are…

  5. Explore advances in artificial intelligence—and much more 

    July 1, 2015

    On July 8–9, more than 350 academic researchers and educators will join Microsoft researchers and engineers for the sixteenth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington. The annual Faculty Summit is one of those rare events that brings together a cross-disciplinary collection of academic…

  6. Microsoft researchers tie for best image captioning technology 

    June 11, 2015

    Posted by Allison Linn Researchers representing Microsoft and Google will present their latest advances Friday in automated image captioning, a hot field that could have broad implications for artificial intelligence. The researchers will be speaking at a workshop that is part of CVPR, an annual…

  7. Eric Horvitz Receives AAAI Feigenbaum Prize; Shares Reflections On AI Research 

    January 27, 2015

    Posted by Eric Horvitz Editor's note: Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond Lab, shares some reflections upon receiving the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize. Horvitz is being recognized by the AAAI for "sustained and high-impact contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through the development…

  8. Platt Plenty Excited About AI 

    August 4, 2014

    Posted by Rob Knies Now, here’s an interesting one: The latest video in Channel 9’s Microsoft Research Luminaries series features John Platt (@johnplattml) and explores his work in the resurgent research area of artificial intelligence (AI), its close cousin, machine learning, and the impact of…

  9. Blake’s Gibbs Lecture Focus: Machines That See, Powered by Probability 

    January 15, 2014

    Tweet Posted by Rob Knies Eighty years ago, Albert Einstein was invited to deliver the 11th installment of the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, established by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 1923 to give the public insight into the intricacies of mathematics and its applications.…