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Transportation Data Science at Microsoft
Microsoft Outreach, through its partnership with the Big Data Hubs organized an Azure workshop and participated in a panel discussion on 'How Cloud Computing Can Enable Transportation Data Science.'
Background Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) is Microsoft’s fundamental research facility in the Asia Pacific region. By attracting the best talent from Asia and across the globe, it has grown into a world-class research laboratory with more than 220 researchers and…
Relevance of Unsupervised Metrics in Task-Oriented Dialogue for Evaluating Natural Language Generation
The vision of the researchers at the Microsoft Research Montreal lab is to create machines that can comprehend, reason and communicate with humans. As part of this vision, our dialogue team has been doing research on task-oriented dialogue systems. We…
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Watch: A sneak peek inside Microsoft’s AI research labs
BBC Newsnight's technology editor David Grossman has been given exclusive access to Microsoft's AI labs in Seattle to see how the future of Artificial Intelligence is shaping up.
What problems will we solve with a quantum computer?
New paper suggests quantum computers will address problems that could have substantial scientific and economic impact With rapid recent advances in quantum technology, we have drawn ever closer to the threshold of quantum devices whose computational powers can exceed those…
Watch the livestream of the 2017 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit—The Edge of AI
By Evelyne Viegas, Program Co-Chair of Faculty Summit and Director, Microsoft We are looking forward to another informative Microsoft Research Faculty Summit (July 17-18, 2017) where this year’s theme is The Edge of AI. The event will consist of keynotes, sessions,…
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Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi receive 2017 Visionary Award
The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce in Massachusetts honored Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi and their colleague John Doench at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with a 2017 Visionary Award (opens in new tab) for their application of machine learning techniques to…
In the news | The AI Blog
AI’s big leap to tiny devices opens world of possibilities
Ofer Dekel leads a multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, software engineers and interns at research labs in Redmond and Bangalore, India, that is developing a new class of machine-learning software and tools to embed artificial intelligence onto bread-crumb size computer…
In the news | The Science Times
Listeners Seeing What They Hear: Virtual Reality & 3D Acoustics Integration
Researchers Ivan J. Tashev and Hannes Gamper, with Microsoft's Audio and Research Group, say that an individual interpretation of acoustic reception depends on the bodily motion while listening to sound. Even head movements could vary when the listener is moving.