Expressive Pixels: A new visual communication platform to support creativity, accessibility, and innovation
The need to express oneself is innate for every person in the world, and its roots run through art, technology, communication, and the acts of learning and building things from the ground up. It’s no coincidence, then, that a new…
In the news | Windows Blog
Microsoft Expressive Pixels: a platform for creativity, inclusion and innovation
You’re sitting at your PC, at home, working remotely. You’ve got a partner who is doing the same. Without requiring you to even turn around, an LED display visible to anyone near you lights up an emoji: a stop sign.…
Microsoft Expressive Pixels Released
We are excited to announce the release of Microsoft Expressive Pixels! Microsoft Expressive Pixels empowers people to create, express, connect, and share animated visualizations in their own unique way. With Expressive Pixels users can make and show both static and…
Platform for Situated Intelligence: An open-source framework for multimodal, integrative AI
| Dan Bohus and Sean Andrist
Over the years at Microsoft Research, we’ve studied how to build AI systems that perceive, understand, and act in a human-filled world in real time. Our motivation has been to create computing systems that can support interactive experiences akin to…
Domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing
| Hoifung Poon and Jianfeng Gao
COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic emerged, tens of thousands of research papers have…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing
COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic emerged, tens of thousands of research papers have…
Microsoft HoloLens 2: Improved Research Mode to facilitate computer vision research
| Marc Pollefeys
Since its launch in November 2019, Microsoft HoloLens 2 has helped enterprises in manufacturing, construction, healthcare, and retail onboard employees more quickly, complete tasks faster, and greatly reduce errors and waste. It sets the high-water mark for intelligent edge devices…
In the news | Addenbrooke's Hospital News
Hancock’s high-tech visit
Health Secretary Matt Hancock today visited Cambridge University Hospitals to see how cutting edge technology can reduce cancer waiting times. Consultant oncologist Dr Raj Jena has been working with Microsoft Research for the past eight years on a machine learning…
In the news | Microsoft Garage Blog
MIT students build Mosaic to explore art across cultures at Microsoft Garage
Art is one of the few languages which transcends barriers of country, culture, and time. Most people view art subjectively through a lens shaped by their experiences and environment. Finding commonalities among pieces from different eras and mediums calls for…