By Vani Mandava, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Research People often rank public speaking as the number one fear that they face. New cloud-based technology from researchers at the University of Rochester lets speakers polish and practice at home in front of…
By Kristin Tolle, Principal Program Manager, Machine Learning and Kenji Takeda, Solutions Architect, Microsoft Research Data science can be a superpower. While we can’t solve all the ills of the world with machine learning, applying data science to just about any…
By Chris Basoglu, Partner Engineering Manager, Microsoft Technology and Research Earlier this year, Microsoft made its open source Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK), a tool used to speed up advances in artificial intelligence, available on GitHub. Today, with CNTK 1.5, we…
In the news | GeekWire
Your house plants are definitely sending you a message when they wilt or drop leaves on the floor. But what if they could actually "speak" to you and convey how they're feeling?
Jeannette M. Wing Photo credit: Scott Eklund/Red Box pictures Microsoft’s Jeannette M. Wing will serve as an evaluating judge for a new competition to award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem…
In the news | The Windows Club
Thanks to Project Florence, you can now talk to the plants in your garden. We have been hearing and reading that talking to plants or playing music near plants help them grow better.
Awards | Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society
Adam Fourney received the Bill Buxton Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. His dissertation: Web Search, Web Tutorials & Software Applications: Characterizing and Supporting the Coordinated Use of…
In the news | FastcoDesign
Project Florence could have incredible implications for the future of farming–and revolutionize the way we understand our environment.
In the news | Scientific American
Researchers have decoded the genomes of mammoths and a 700,000-year-old horse using DNA fragments extracted from fossils in the past few years. DNA clearly persists far longer than the bodies for which it carries the genetic codes.