Neural fuzzing: applying DNN to software security testing
| William Blum
Microsoft researchers have developed a new method for discovering software security vulnerabilities that uses machine learning and deep neural networks to help the system root out bugs better by learning from past experience. This new research project, called neural fuzzing,…
Computing in the 21st Century: Academic collaboration fosters the art of artificial intelligence
On October 19, 2017, in Harbin, China, Microsoft Research Asia and Harbin Institute of Technology jointly held the 19th annual Computing in the 21st Century conference to share advanced AI research results and opinions with more than 1,600 students and…
Scientists use machine learning to predict DNA binding rates from sequence
By Microsoft Research Lab - Cambridge and Department of Bioengineering, Rice University The binding of DNA strands by Watson-Crick base pairing is a fundamental process in biotechnology, which is used around the world for reading and writing DNA sequences and…
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Microsoft researchers use visual AI to make India’s roads safer
HAMS, which stands for Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety, is a virtual harness for vehicles that focusses on two factors that are critical to road safetyâthe state of the driver, and his or her driving relative to other vehicles.
Awards | Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
Susan Dumais receives inaugural CIKM Test of Time Award
Susan Dumais received the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2017 inaugural Test of Time Award for being the first author of the paper Inductive Learning Algorithms and Representations for Text Categorization, along with John Platt, David Heckerman, and Mehran Sahami, first published in…
Interested users can access the knowledge graph that powers Microsoft Academic search directly via our API. To access the API, you first need to create a free Azure account, and then add the Academic Knowledge API to your dashboards. Follow…
In the news | Mayo Clinic Transform 2017
Mind the Gap: James Weinstein, D.O.
James Weinstein is Chief Executive Officer and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. Under his leadership, Dartmouth-Hitchcock is working to create a “sustainable health system” for the patients and communities it serves, for generations to come.
Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research take giant step towards eliminating network downtime
| Victor Bahl
At the 26th ACM Annual Symposium on Operating Systems and Principles, better known as SOSP 2017, my colleagues described a new technology called CrystalNet - a high-fidelity, cloud-scale emulator that helps network engineers nearly eliminate network downtime related to routine…
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Bringing AI translation to edge devices with Microsoft Translator
An AI-dedicated processor available on the Huawei Mate 10, even in the absence of internet access, enables the system to produce translations whose quality is on par with the online system.