Hyperscale cloud reliability and the art of organic collaboration
What does it take to build one of the most reliable hyperscale clouds on the planet? It clearly requires astronomical investments and a vast organization that operates at global scale in near seamless coordination. Yet the breakthroughs that fuel this…
Great reads from Microsoft Research
Whether you're looking for help in leveling up your user researcher knowledge, or just a quick read to help pass the time, here's a list of books compiled by our user researchers. Enjoy.
Challenge accepted—MARLÖ competition among conference highlights
| Noboru Sean Kuno
With the latest Project Malmo competition, we’re calling on researchers and engineers to test the limits of their thinking as it pertains to artificial intelligence, particularly multi-task, multi-agent reinforcement learning. Last week, a group of attendees at the 14th Conference…
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Facebook’s Blueprint Needs a Blueprint
Mark Zuckerberg's plan for an independent council to review controversial content moderation decisions leaves some important questions unanswered.
By Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Bin Shao, Wei Chen, and Jiang Bian, Microsoft Research Asia Machine learning is quite hot at present. Technological innovation is a fundamental power behind economic growth. Among these innovations, the most important is what economists label…
Hearing in 3D with Dr. Ivan Tashev
Episode 50, November 14, 2018 - Dr. Tashev gives us an overview of the quest for better sound processing and speech enhancement, tells us about the latest innovations in 3D audio, and explains why the research behind audio processing technology…
Microsoft AirSim now available on Unity
| Ashish Kapoor and Shital Shah
At Microsoft, we have a vision and passion to bring artificial intelligence solutions to real-world systems using the power of simulation. We continually strive to accelerate AI advances with the use of realistic simulators, tools, and environments. Today we are…