In the news | Microsoft Bing Blogs
Who starts preparing taxes first?
In case you missed it, today is tax day. This year we thought we’d look at several years of Bing data to see if we can learn anything about when people start preparing their taxes. In order to do this,…
今天，我们正式宣布在中国市场推出Skype Translator实时语音翻译技术的中文预览版。自此，英文和中文普通话之间的实时语音对话将成为现实。Skype Translator不仅凝聚了微软在语音识别、自动翻译和机器学习等科技领域几十年的研究成果，更深刻地体现了微软“用户体验至上”的理念。自2014年12月Skype Translator 推出英文和西班牙文之间的实时语音翻译之后，此次在中国市场...
Research moves from the lab to the street
Imagine a street dance in which the participants interact not just with their flesh-and-blood counterparts but also with lights and sounds controlled by the dancers’ own movements. That’s what visitors to SummerSalt, an outdoor arts festival in Melbourne, Australia, experienced.…
Probabilistic programming goes large scale: From reducing email clutter to any machine learning task
Posted by George Thomas Jr. How is it you seem to be spending more and more time every day sifting through and prioritizing email messages? According to research by The Radicati Group, Inc., the legitimate emails you receive — already upwards…
Contest promotes automation of machine learning
Machine learning is the cornerstone of today’s modern data analysis. The gurus of “big data” analytics are all well versed in machine learning, but most domain specialists still must hire data scientists to meet their data-analysis needs. It's inevitable, though,…
Microsoft Azure helps researchers predict traffic jams
More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and suburbs, and as just about any of these billions of people can tell you, urban traffic can be a nightmare. Cars stack up bumper-to-bumper, clogging our highways, jangling…
Collaborative research improves search engine speed
Have you ever found yourself waiting for results from your Internet search engine? Oh, sure, search for Kim Kardashian and the results come flying back at warp speed. But queries with vague terms are often automatically reformulated into complex queries…
In the news | Microsoft Machine Learning Blog
In ML, What They Know Can Hurt You
Imagine you own a restaurant in a city (any city but not Seattle*). From inside the restaurant there’s no way to see the outside. You come up with a marketing plan that if it rains, your restaurant will provide free…
In the news | TechFest
Be There: 3D Audio Virtual Presence [Video]
Demonstration of spatial audio techniques during TechFest 2015 - Microsoft Research Labs.