In the news | The AI Blog
Cancer researchers embrace AI to accelerate development of precision medicine
Biomedical researchers are embracing artificial intelligence to accelerate the implementation of cancer treatments that target patients’ specific genomic profiles, a type of precision medicine that in some cases is more effective than traditional chemotherapy and has fewer side effects.
In the news | Wallpaper
Jenny Sabin’s brainy AI sculpture learns to smile at Microsoft HQ
Pioneering mathematician Ada Lovelace inspires the giant, semi-sentient being that has landed in Microsoft's Redmond campus.
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Microsoft for Healthcare: new people, products, and partnerships
In healthcare and life sciences, advances in research and technology development are providing a deeper understanding of human health and leading to more effective ways to prevent and treat disease. At the same time, the shifting landscape of the business…
From blank canvas unfolds a scene: GAN-based model generates and modifies images based on continual linguistic instruction
| Shikhar Sharma
When people create, it’s not very often they achieve what they’re looking for on the first try. Creating—whether it be a painting, a paper, or a machine learning model—is a process that has a starting point from which new elements…
Machine teaching, LUIS and the democratization of custom AI with Dr. Riham Mansour
Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables conversational agents to provide general question-answer services. But in domains with more specific taxonomies – or simply for requests that are longer and more complicated than “Play Baby Shark” – custom conversational…
In the news | designboom
ada by jenny sabin is an installation that translates people’s expressions into light and color
In collaboration with Microsoft Research, artist-in-residence Jenny Sabin has designed the "ada" installation - an architectural pavilion that incorporates AI to create a wholly immersive experience that transforms personal data into light and colors.
Awards | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Gary J. Sullivan, Rapporteur of the ITU-T Visual Coding Experts Group (VCEG), Congratulates JPEG Committee for Primetime Emmy Engineering Award®
The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), a longstanding partnership of the ITU-T and ISO/IEC standardization organizations, currently coordinated by the ITU-T Study Group 16 Visual Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Working Group 1, was recognized with…
Getting a better visual: RepPoints detect objects with greater accuracy through flexible and adaptive object modeling
| Han Hu and Steve Lin
Visual understanding tasks are typically centered on objects, such as human pose tracking in Microsoft Kinect and obstacle avoidance in autonomous driving. In the deep learning era, these tasks follow a paradigm where bounding boxes are localized in an image,…
In the news | Architect Magazine
Jenny Sabin Studio’s “Ada” Embeds AI in Architecture at Microsoft
To get a sense of the mood in Microsoft (opens in new tab)’s Research Building 99, just take a look at "Ada." Named for the polymath and programming visionary Ada Lovelace, the two-story tall architectural pavilion suspended in the atrium, at…