In the news | DailyMail.UK
Microsoft’s underwater cloud: First subsea datacenter is launched off the coast of Scotland, and could one day improve your internet speeds
Microsoft is testing a shipping-container-sized datacenter that will provide cloud services from the bottom of the ocean. The years-long ‘Project Natick’ effort recently moved into its second phase of development, with a prototype deployed to the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney…
The advance of deep neural networks has brought huge advances in image captioning. However, current work is deficient in several ways. It simply generates “vanilla” sentences, which describe the shallow appearance of things (e.g., color, types) in the photo and…
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Una ingeniera española en Microsoft Research
Una ingeniera española en Microsoft Research: Mar González nos cuenta su trabajo con las HoloLens térmicas y la realidad virtual
Optimizing Barnes-Hut t-SNE
| Tavian Barnes
Ten years ago, while writing a physics engine, I learned about the Barnes-Hut algorithm for the gravitational n-body problem. Normally, computing the Newtonian gravitational forces between n bodies requires evaluations of Newton's law of universal gravitation, as every body exerts…
Making intelligence intelligible with Dr. Rich Caruana
Episode 26, May 30, 2018 - Dr. Rich Caruana talks about how the rise of deep neural networks has made understanding machine predictions more difficult for humans, and discusses an interesting class of smaller, more interpretable models that may help…
Advancing accessibility with Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
Episode 25, May 23, 2018 - Dr. Morris gives us some fascinating insights into the world of “ability,” talks about how technology is augmenting not only sensory and motor abilities, but cognitive and social abilities as well, and shares how…
In the news | Microsoft Blog
Achievement Unlocked – Nearly 200 million images into a national land cover map in about 10 minutes
When we started AI for Earth, we had one simple but huge ambition – to fundamentally transform the way we, as a society, monitor, model and manage Earth’s natural resources. That transformation will ultimately require collecting and processing exceptionally large…
In the news | InfoWorld
Data-driven agriculture: How IoT could change farming
Azure IoT Edge is powering Microsoft Research's agricultural monitoring and machine learning platform, called FarmBeats.
In the news | Microsoft Windows Blog
How to create accessible apps and immersive game experiences with new eye tracking APIs
Last year in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, we introduced Eye Control, an experience that allows customers to control Windows using only their eyes. We continue to design with individuals like Steve Gleason in mind, and always challenge ourselves…