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Microsoft engineers and City of Bellevue planners have a sci-fi inspired strategy for curbing bike and pedestrian injuries on city streets: By using video analytics, they want to predict and prevent crashes before they happen.
When Vidya Srinivasan returns to the Grace Hopper conference this week, she’ll get a quick answer to her recent tweet about the opening day Code-a-thon—“LOVE #OpenSource?” Affirmations will surely come in the form of the 230 participants signed up for…
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Zuzana Kukelova was quite the troublemaker in her youth. In fact, in elementary school she was always getting kicked out of math class. But the source of her disruption wasn't related to any sort of…
While we live and breathe data science year-round at Microsoft Research, this summer, we offered a broad range of data science education opportunities for young researchers. Participation in these events was extremely rewarding—for both the students and the organizers. Students…
Note: Research News has provided links to papers where available. Best Paper Award (first place) Partially Occluded Object Detection by Finding the Visible Features and Parts By Kai Chi Chan, Alper Ayvaci, and Bernd Heisele Best Paper Award (second place)…
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A new Microsoft Research project could result in a laptop battery that lasts a lot longer.
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Microsoft researchers, working with colleagues from academia, have come up with a system that uses multiple kinds of existing batteries, working in tandem with smarter software, to keep laptops and tablets charged much longer than current standards.
Microsoft researchers have figured out a way to build software systems spanning many computers that can be proven free of bugs, a significant feat in the decades-long quest to create perfect software.
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research Advances in artificial intelligence have improved our lives in many ways. Thanks to methods developed in artificial intelligence, we have GPS systems that help us to get where we are going, smart phones…