The amount of today’s rich media content is unprecedented. Every second, people are creating and sharing enormous amounts of information, and particularly content that includes complex image and text information. Among these contents, the combination of text and images has…
Will machines one day be as creative as humans?
| Sebastian Nowozin
Recent methods in artificial intelligence enable AI software to produce rich and creative digital artifacts such as text and images painted from scratch. One technique used in creating these artifacts are generative adversarial networks (GANs). Today at NIPS 2017, researchers…
New Microsoft Research Podcast invites you to log on, tune in and geek out
| Gretchen Huizinga
Microsoft Research Podcast Subscribe and listen on iTunes, android or email I’ve spent the better part of the last decade investigating the impact of digital media and technology on culture from an academic perspective. I have conducted my own qualitative…
AI and Our Future With Machines with Dr. Eric Horvitz
| Eric Horvitz
Episode 2, December 4, 2017 - When it comes to artificial intelligence, Dr. Eric Horvitz is as passionate as he is accomplished. His contributions to the field, and service on the boards of nearly every technical academy and association in…
Snippets from the Revolution – An Interview with Dr. Jaime Teevan
| Jaime Teevan
Episode 1, November 28, 2017 - Dr. Jaime Teevan has a lot to say about productivity in a fragmented culture, and some solutions that seem promising, if somewhat counterintuitive. Dr. Teevan is a Microsoft researcher, University of Washington Affiliate Professor,…
In the news | Beyond Tomorrow
Beyond Tomorrow – A vision study by Brüel & Kjær
The Beyond Tomorrow Vision Study is published and a symposium has been assembled with industry experts, including Ivan Tashev, discussing the report findings and their perspectives on the future of product development.
In the news | Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Empowering the Transformation to a More Inclusive and Accessible World
United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (UN IDPD) serves as an important reminder that globally there are over a billion people with a disability. This year’s theme, “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient society for all” is especially relevant…
Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure improve the efficiency and capacity of cloud-scale optical networks
| Victor Bahl
Today, at HotNets 2017, the Sixteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, we shared with you some important research results from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure that show how we can increase the capacity of optical networks without purchasing new…
In the news | The Hindu
Making use of smartphones to ensure road safety
Imagine, if a smartphone could detect when the driver is too tired and yawning, and send an alert to his supervisor. Or, if data transfer could be automatically scheduled in accordance with the strength of the signal, in order to…