AI, machine learning and the reasoning machine with Dr. Geoff Gordon
Episode 21, April 25, 2018 - Dr. Gordon gives us a brief history of AI, including his assessment of why we might see a break in the weather-pattern of AI winters, talks about how collaboration is essential to innovation in…
Measuring employment demand with internet search data
| Scott Counts and Justin Cranshaw
The United States, along with much of the world, is in the midst of an economic transition from manual to intellectual labor. The changing nature of work, including the automation of labor, is an important issue facing society, with implications…
23 April 2018, Hong Kong – Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Microsoft’s world-class research arm, and Orient Overseas Container Line Limited (OOCL) announced their partnership in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) research to improve network operations and achieve efficiencies within the shipping industry. The…
In the news | Data Center Knowledge
Why Microsoft Has Bet on FPGAs to Infuse Its Cloud With AI, by Mary Branscombe
April 20th, 2018 Graph Update
The Microsoft Academic Graph that powers Microsoft Academic is updated on a weekly basis to ensure data coverage and accuracy. Here are the numbers for the latest update: Entity April 20 Release Publications 173,763,013 Authors 210,806,214 Affiliations 18,719 Journals 47,939 Conference series 4,027 Fields…
HEARING IS BELIEVING – Researchers’ innovation provides a richer web-browsing experience for people who are blind
Imagine for a moment that you are blind and are navigating the web using a screen reader to hear websites rather than see them. Imagine that the article you have navigated to includes images. To understand the content and significance,…
ChatPainter: Improving text-to-image generation by using dialogue
Generating realistic images from a text description is a challenging task for a bot. A solution to this task has potential applications in the video game and image editing industries, among many others. Recently, researchers at Microsoft and elsewhere have…
Manipulating Space and Time in Mixed Reality
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality each has distinct advantages when it comes to bringing digital capabilities into our everyday lives. Everything users see, including the environment and every object can be controlled and changed. This also means that what users…
In the news | Microsoft Asia News Center
AI and cargo shipping: Full speed ahead for global maritime trade
As the old saying goes: Time is money. And, that’s never been truer than in the competitive world of international shipping, where unforeseen delays or miscalculations can cost millions of dollars.