Believing is seeing: Insightful research illuminates the newly possible in the realm of natural and synthetic images
A pair of groundbreaking papers in computer vision open new vistas on possibilities in the realms of creating very real-looking natural images and synthesizing realistic, identity-preserving facial images. In CVAE-GAN: Fine-Grained Image Generation through Asymmetric Training, presented this past October…
In the news | WIRED
This economist wants to abolish private property using blockchain
Some months ago, Glen Weyl – a principal researcher at Microsoft Research with a liking for nineteenth-century political economics – noticed that someone had been tweeting about him. A guy called Vitalik Buterin had posted something on Weyl’s proposal for…
Teaching computers to see with Dr. Gang Hua
Episode 28, June 13, 2018 - Dr. Hua talks about how the latest advances in AI and machine learning are making big improvements on image recognition, video understanding and even the arts. He also explains the distributed ensemble approach to…
In the news | Channel 9
Better Understanding and Addressing Your Players’ Negative Online Gaming Experiences
Melissa Boone, Tracey Fuller, Jerome Hagen of Xbox Research share their learnings about the psychological, situational, and structural reasons behind why bad experiences are underreported.
Microsoft Unveils FASTER – a key-value store for large state management
At SIGMOD 2018, a team from Microsoft Research will be presenting a new embedded key-value store called FASTER, described in their paper “FASTER: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates”. As its name suggests, FASTER makes a major leap forward…
In the news | Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock MP on InnerEye in the NHS
All around us, a new generation of technology is changing all of our lives. From the mundane but useful, like the ubiquity of satnavs that stop family arguments and warn us of traffic jams, to the profound and extraordinary, like…
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Microsoft sunk a massive data center in the ocean to boost internet speeds
Microsoft sunk the 40-foot long vessel off the coast of Scotland. The data center contains 12 racks of computers with a total of 864 servers. Microsoft said it can hold data and process information for up to five years without…
Going beyond the research experience – Exceptional mother in 1970s Romania inspired Stefan Saroiu to know his destiny at a very early age.
“Growing up, my mom was a programmer with a computer science degree at a time when there was no computer science department in Romania,” remembers Microsoft senior researcher Stefan Saroiu with a smile that is palpable over the telephone. As…
The democratization of data science with Dr. Chris White
Episode 27, June 6, 2018 - Dr. White talks about his “problem-first” approach to research, explains the vital importance of making data understandable for everyone, and shares the story of how a one-week detour from academia turned into an extended…