The women who inspire women to pursue careers in STEM
| Anne Loomis Thompson
Halfway through college, I had an identity crisis. Spring was in the air in Hanover, New Hampshire, and my classmates were gearing up for Dartmouth's famed Sophomore Summer term. Most of them would spend much of this term tubing down…
Improving AI Systems with Human Feedback and no Heartburn
| Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, and Susan Dumais
Humans play an indispensable role in many modern AI-enabled services – not just as consumers of the service, but as the actual intelligence behind the artificial intelligence. From news portals to e-commerce websites, it is people’s ratings, clicks, and other…
In the news | LinkedIn
You are what you write
There is a Chinese proverb that says “见文如见人,” which literally means “reading the document is the same as seeing the author.” If we are what we write, then who have we, as a society, become? I was sitting in a technical review…
Microsoft researchers unlock the black box of network embedding
| Kuansan Wang
At the ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining 2018, my team will introduce research that, for the first time, provides a theoretical explanation of popular methods used to automatically map the structure and characteristics of networks, known as…
Getting LinkedIn to Data Science with Dr. Igor Perisic
Episode 11, February 7, 2018 - Big data is a big deal, and if you follow the popular technical press, you’ll have heard all the metaphors: data is the new oil, the new bacon, the new currency, the new electricity.…
Pearson and Microsoft Research Asia Partner to Empower Personalized Learning with AI technologies
Beijing, Jan 31, 2018, Pearson and Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) jointly announced that they have signed a three-year strategic partnership agreement after successfully launching Longman English+, an English language learning application last year.
February 2018 Graph Update
The Microsoft Academic Graph that powers Microsoft Academic is updated on a weekly basis to ensure data coverage and accuracy. You can always see the current numbers on our homepage, and we document them on the blog once a month.…
Typing in the Virtual Office Environment: Examining the Effects of Keyboard and Hand Representation in VR
| Eyal Ofek and Michel Pahud
Much of the hype around Virtual Reality, or VR, has focused on immersive gaming and entertainment, but the technology also has profound implications for enhancing the way we work. Imagine the perfect office environment: multiple large displays, proper lighting, free…
韦福如：做研究，痛并快乐着
也许离真正取代人类劳动力还有很长的距离，但毫无疑问的是，人工智能已经进入了一个“野蛮生长”的阶段。刚刚跨入2018年的人类再次被超越——这一次，是阅读理解。 在斯坦福大学发起的SQuAD（Stanford Question Answering Dataset）文本理解挑战赛中，微软亚洲研究院自然语言计算组于1月3日提交的R-NET模型在EM值（Exact Match, 表示预测答案和真实答案完全匹...