Awards | ACM SIGAI
Real World Reinforcement Learning Team honored with 2019 ACM SIGAI award
The selection committee selected the Decision Service created by the Real World Reinforcement Learning team as the winner of the inaugural 2019 ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The committee was impressed with the identification and…
2019 Dissertation Grant recipients embarking on diverse paths to scientific and societal impact
| Meredith Ringel Morris
I’m pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grants. Each dissertation grant provides up to $25,000 in funding to doctoral students at North American universities who are underrepresented in the field of computing. This is the…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Microsoft FHIR Server for Azure extends to SQL
Since the launch of the open source FHIR Server for Azure on GitHub last November, we have been humbled by the tremendously positive response and surge in the use of FHIR in the healthcare community. There has been great interest…
Exploring job search trends in Canada with search query data: A collaboration with Bank of Canada
| Scott Counts and Justin Cranshaw
Microsoft Research has teamed up with economists at Bank of Canada to launch an interactive tool for exploring online job search trends in the country. The tool, based on a classification process derived from previous research on how job searches…
Reliability in Reinforcement Learning
| Romain Laroche
Reinforcement Learning (RL), much like scaling a 3,000-foot rock face, is about learning to make sequential decisions. The list of potential RL applications is expansive, spanning robotics (drone control), dialogue systems (personal assistants, automated call centers), the game industry (non-player…
A phonetic matching made inˈhɛvən
| Matthew Dixon
Recently, Microsoft Research Montréal open sourced a phonetic matching component used previously in Maluuba Inc.'s natural language understanding platform. The library contains string comparison utilities that operate on a phoneme level as opposed to a character level. This allows upstream…
Making the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal
If you’ve recently found it more difficult to focus your attention for a lengthy stretch of time in order to get a complex task done… or worse, found it difficult even to find a lengthy stretch of time in which…
In the news | Synced
ICLR 2019 | MILA, Microsoft, and MIT Share Best Paper Honours
Ordered Neurons: Integrating Tree Structures into Recurrent Neural Networks, from the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) and the Microsoft Research Montréal lab, was one of two Best Paper winners at ICLR 2019.
In the news | Knowledge@Wharton
How can we overcome the challenge of biased and incomplete data?
Data analytics and artificial intelligence are transforming our lives. Be it in health care, in banking and financial services, or in times of humanitarian crises — data determine the way decisions are made. But often, the way data is collected…