Awards | UK Office for Artificial Intelligence
Chris Bishop appointed to UK’s AI Council
Chris Bishop was appointed along with other leaders from business, academia and data privacy organizations to the UK’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Council created to help boost growth of AI in the UK by promoting its adoption and ethical use in…
In the news | The AI Blog
What’s Microsoft’s vision for conversational AI? Computers that understand you
Today’s intelligent assistants are full of skills. They can check the weather, traffic and sports scores. They can play music, translate words and send text messages. They can even do math, tell jokes and read stories. But, when it comes…
Believe your ears – Hitting all the right notes in spatial sound rendering at ICASSP 2019
Mixed reality (MR) applications and devices are seeing increased adoption, integrating computation into the fabric of our daily lives. This requires realistic rendering of virtual audio-visual content to deliver sensory immersion to MR users. Producing renderings indistinguishable from reality within…
Speech and language: the crown jewel of AI with Dr. Xuedong Huang
Episode 76, May 15, 2019 When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with your computer… and felt like it truly understood you? Well, if Dr. Xuedong Huang, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and head of Microsoft’s Speech and…
Awards | IEEE Signal Processing Society
Hamid Palangi, Jianfeng Gao receive prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
Hamid Palangi, Senior Researcher, Jianfeng Gao, Partner Research Manager, and their collaborators received the prestigious 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper award (Test of Time) for their work on deep sentence embedding for web search engines and information retrieval.…
Creating AI glass boxes – Open sourcing a library to enable intelligibility in machine learning
| Rich Caruana, Harsha Nori, Samuel Jenkins, Paul Koch, and Ester de Nicolas
When AI systems impact people’s lives, it is critically important that people understand their behavior. By understanding their behavior, data scientists can properly debug their models. If able to reason how models behave, designers can convey that information to end…
Awards | European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
Mary Czerwinski amongst the first EAI Fellows
Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager, was awarded the title of EAI (European Alliance for Innovation) Fellow. This is the inaugural year for this award and goes to individuals with extraordinary accomplishments in their respective technical areas, and with…