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Hancock’s high-tech visit
Health Secretary Matt Hancock today visited Cambridge University Hospitals to see how cutting edge technology can reduce cancer waiting times. Consultant oncologist Dr Raj Jena has been working with Microsoft Research for the past eight years on a machine learning…
In the news | Microsoft Garage Blog
MIT students build Mosaic to explore art across cultures at Microsoft Garage
Art is one of the few languages which transcends barriers of country, culture, and time. Most people view art subjectively through a lens shaped by their experiences and environment. Finding commonalities among pieces from different eras and mediums calls for…
In the news | Microsoft Stories
Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed disease with little data available,…
In the news | Visual Studio Blog
The making of Visual Studio IntelliCode’s first deep learning model: a research journey
Since the first IntelliCode code completion model was shipped in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code in 2018, it has become an essential coding assistant for millions of developers around the world. In the past two years, we have been working tirelessly to enable IntelliCode for more programming languages and, in the meantime, researching ways to improve the model precision and coverage to deliver an even more satisfying user experience. One of our major research…
Awards | IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
Johannes Schönberger awarded PAMI Mark Everingham Prize
Johannes Schönberger received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize at ECCV 2020 for his selfless contribution to developing and maintaining the COLMAP SFM and MVS software library which provides an open-source end-to-end pipeline for 3D reconstruction from images. It has become…
Awards | Informs
Rothkopf Prize awarded to Yannai Gonczarowski and co-authors
Yannai Gonczarowski, along with co-authors Lior Kovalio, Noam Nisan, and Assaf Romm, receive Rothkopf Prize for Matching for the Israeli 'Mechinot' Gap-Year Programs: Handling Rich Diversity Requirements
MineRL sample-efficient reinforcement learning challenge—back for a second year—benefits organizers, as well as larger research community
| Noboru Sean Kuno
To unearth a diamond in the block-based open world of Minecraft requires the acquisition of materials and the construction of tools before any diamond mining can even begin. Players need to gather wood, which they’ll use to make a wood…
With the rise of remote work and distance learning, Microsoft Whiteboard, a collaborative design tool, has seen its usage increase, as designers and students look for ways to collaborate with others, without being in the same place. Researchers wanted to…
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Microsoft Research announce TileCode, a game creation app that can run on handhelds
Microsoft Research has announced a new project – Microsoft TileCode, which is a game creation app that allows you to design, code, and play video games directly on low-cost Microsoft MakeCode Arcade gaming handhelds, as well as in the web browser.