Machine learning and the incredible flying robot with Dr. Ashish Kapoor
Episode 22, May 2, 2018 - Dr. Kapoor talks about how cutting-edge machine learning techniques are empowering a new generation of autonomous vehicles, and tells us all about AirSim, an innovative platform that’s helping bridge the simulator-to-reality gap, paving the…
Learning from Source Code
Over the last five years, deep learning-based methods have revolutionised a wide range of applications, for example those requiring understanding of pictures, speech and natural language. For computer scientists, a naturally arising question is whether computers learn to understand source…
In the news | Bing Blogs
Towards More Intelligent Search: Deep Learning for Query Semantics
Deep learning is helping to make Bing’s search results more intelligent. Here’s a peek behind the curtain of how we’re applying some of these techniques.
Boundary-seeking GANs: A new method for adversarial generation of discrete data
| Devon Hjelm and Athul Jacob
Generative models are an important subset of machine learning goals and tasks that require realistic and statistically accurate generation of target data. Among all available generative models, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged recently as a leading and state-of-the-art method,…
Awards | Network Science Society
Duncan Watts honored as an inaugural Fellow of the Network Science Society
Duncan Watts is among seven people elected as an inaugural Fellow of the Network Science Society (opens in new tab). The organization serves and represents a research community that coalesced around Watts’ pioneering research (opens in new tab) that mathematically explains why everyone…
Neural-Guided Deductive Search: A best of both worlds approach to program synthesis
| Alex Polozov
Program synthesis — automatically generating a program that satisfies a given specification — is a major challenge in AI. In addition to changing the way we design software, it has the potential to revolutionize task automation. End users without programming…
In the news | CNET
Microsoft Windows 10 April 2018 Update aims to shield us from notifications
Notifications are both one of the most revolutionary inventions of the mobile age, and one of the most hated features on our devices. The little nudges typically appear as a number sitting atop an app's icon or a text alert…
In the news | Windows Blog
Make the most of your time with the new Windows 10 update
We all get the same 24 hours. And now, more than ever, it seems like it’s never enough. People feel more overwhelmed than ever before and pretty much all of us would love more time – not necessarily time to…
In the news | USA Today
Microsoft’s Windows 10 tries to stop pointless multi-tasking
How do you freshen up a venerable operating system like Windows 10, and get you to care, especially when you release an update to the software as frequently as every six months or so?