My Path to AI Residency
Interview with Blake Elias, AI Resident Tell us a bit about your background. I recently completed the Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I always…
Competition win a steppingstone in the greater journey to create sustainable farming
The cucumber plants, their leaves wide and green and veiny, stood tall in neat rows, basking in the Netherland sunlight shining through the glass panes of their greenhouses. Hopes were high for the plants—a bountiful crop in just four months…
No matter time of the year, this reading list provides inspiration for user researchers and data scientists who are looking for something new to learn. With selections that cover various disciplines, readers will find titles that cover things like how…
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Microsoft researchers beat Tencent and Intel in autonomous greenhouse competition
Members of Microsoft Research, together with students from Dutch and Danish universities, have won a cucumber-growing competition held in autonomous greenhouses at Wageningen University and Research in Holland. Team Sonoma, as it’s known, beat out competitors from Tencent, Intel, and…
By Ming Zhou, Nan Duan, Furu Wei, Shujie Liu, and Dongdong Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia Language is the holy grail of Artificial Intelligence. The progress of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies will push the entire AI field forward. Here’s a view…
A Vision for the Future of Systems
When you surf the Internet with your favorite search engine, when you play with Xiaoice or Siri to see if they are smart or dumb, or when you experience the adventure and convenience of autonomous driving, that smooth user experience…
Soundscaping the world with Amos Miller
Episode 54, December 12, 2018 - Amos Miller is a product strategist on the Microsoft Research NeXT Enable team, and he’s played a pivotal role in bringing some of MSR’s most innovative research to users with disabilities. He also happens…
First TextWorld Problems—Microsoft Research Montreal’s latest AI competition is really cooking
| Wendy Tay and Adam Trischler
This week, Microsoft Research threw down the gauntlet with the launch of a competition challenging researchers around the world to develop AI agents that can solve text-based games. Conceived by the Machine Reading Comprehension team at Microsoft Research Montreal, the…
A Deep Learning Theory: Global minima and over-parameterization
| Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, and Zhao Song
One empirical finding in deep learning is that simple methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) have a remarkable ability to fit training data. From a capacity perspective, this may not be surprising— modern neural networks are heavily over-parameterized, with…