HCI, IR and the search for better search with Dr. Susan Dumais
Dr. Susan Dumais knows you have things to do, and if you need help finding stuff to get them done (and you probably do) then her long and illustrious career in search technologies has been worth it. Situated firmly in…
Helping first responders achieve more with autonomous systems and AirSim
| Ashish Kapoor
With inputs from: Elizabeth Bondi (Harvard University), Bob DeBortoli (Oregon State University), Balinder Malhi (Microsoft) and Jim Piavis (Microsoft) Autonomous systems have the potential to improve safety for people in dangerous jobs, particularly first responders. However, deploying these systems is…
Layer Trajectory BLSTM: New evolution enhances speech recognition technology
Speech is a signal that can enable natural interaction between human and machine. In order to facilitate this exchange, machines have to be able to recognize what a human has spoken, both the words and the context in which those…
Bring your phones to the conference table: creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices
| Takuya Yoshioka, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Andreas Stolcke, and William Hinthorn
Recent advances in machine learning and signal processing, as well as the availability of massive computing power, have resulted in dramatic and steady improvement in speech recognition accuracy. Voice interfaces to digital devices have become more and more common. Lectures…
In the news | Harvard Business Review
How AI in the Exam Room Could Reduce Physician Burnout
Turnaround time for Ambient clinical intelligence to complete reports in the EHR is 50 percent lower than anticipated.
Awards | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
danah boyd receives EFF Barlow/Pioneer award
danah boyd, Principal Researcher, received a 2019 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Barlow/Pioneer award (opens in new tab) in recognition of her leading role as a Trailblazing Technology Scholar. danah boyd has consistently been one of the world’s smartest researchers, thinkers, and…
Inside the Microsoft AI Residency Program with Dr. Brian Broll
In 2018, Microsoft launched the Microsoft AI Residency Program, a year-long, expanded research experience designed to give recent graduates in a variety of fields the opportunity to work alongside prominent researchers at MSR on cutting edge AI technologies to solve…