Froid and the relational database query quandary with Dr. Karthik Ramachandra
Episode 73, April 24, 2019 - In the world of relational databases, structured query language, or SQL, has long been King of the Queries, primarily because of its ubiquity and unparalleled performance. But many users prefer a mix of imperative…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Dear Spark developers: Welcome to Azure Cognitive Services
Integrating the power of Azure Cognitive Services into your big data workflows on Apache Spark™ Today at Spark + AI Summit 2019, we're excited to introduce a new set of models in the SparkML ecosystem that make it easy to…
In the news | The AI Blog
Machine teaching: How people’s expertise makes AI even more powerful
As the desire to use AI for more scenarios has grown, Microsoft scientists and product developers have pioneered a complementary approach called machine teaching. This relies on people's expertise to break a problem into easier tasks and give machine learning…
In the news | Fast Company
Machine Teaching is a thing, and Microsoft wants to own it
Microsoft is rallying behind 'machine teaching,' and it's loosely defined by Microsoft as a set of tools that human experts in any field can use to train AI on their own.
In the news | The AI Blog
Machine teaching: How people’s expertise makes AI even more powerful
Most people wouldn’t think to teach five-year-olds how to hit a baseball by handing them a bat and ball, telling them to toss the objects into the air in a zillion different combinations and hoping they figure out how the…
WMT 2019国际机器翻译大赛：微软亚洲研究院以8项第一成为冠军
近日，由国际计算语言学协会ACL（The Association for Computational Linguistics）举办的WMT 2019国际机器翻译比赛的客观评测结果揭晓 (opens in new tab)，微软亚洲研究院机器学习组在参加的11项机器翻译任务中，有8项获得了第一名，另外3项获得第二名，凭借多维度的技术创新成为冠军团队。 WMT的全称为Conference on Mac...
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Scientists at Work: Teaching Robots to Think
Will robots take our jobs? They’ll need a key human skill first—the ability to think. To find out just how near such a future is, we visited Ashley J. Llorens, chief of the Intelligent Systems Center at the Johns Hopkins…
In the news | Forbes
4 Super Simple Ways You Can Proactively Reduce Stress
In honor of April Awareness Month, I spoke to Margaret Price and Mary Czerwinski, two behavioral researchers from Microsoft, on proactive ways of dealing with stress. Price researches human behavior through our relationship with technology, and Czerwinski studies emotions and…
Advancing accessibility on the web, in virtual reality, and in the classroom
| Meredith Ringel Morris
At the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems conference in Glasgow, Scotland this May, researchers from Microsoft’s Redmond and UK labs, together with our university collaborators, will be presenting several papers and demos that explore how to…