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Microsoft’s Conversation Transcription demo wows as new hardware revealed
Microsoft has figured out real-time conversation transcription, revealing a new Azure-integrated conical reference design speaker along with a way to turn every phone and laptop in a meeting into an ad-hoc voice recognition array.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Minimizing gaps in information access on social networks while maximizing the spread
How can we spread information to a large number of people on a budget while minimizing the gap in access between the highly connected people in the network and the poorly connected people?
Beyond spell checkers: Enhancing the editing process with deep learning
| Miltos Allamanis, Marc Brockschmidt, and Alex Gaunt
“Here’s my conference paper—what do you think?” After hours of agonizing over words and illustrations, sharing a draft document is a moment of great pride. All too often, this is shortly followed by embarrassment when your colleague gets back to…
Machine Reading Systems Are Becoming More Conversational
A team of researchers from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and the Speech Dialog Research Group at Microsoft Redmond are currently leading in the Conversational Question Answering (CoQA) Challenge organized by Stanford University. In…
In the news | Open Data Science Conference
Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneouse Treatement Effects: the Microsoft EconML Library Talk
One of the biggest promises of machine learning is the automation of decision making in a multitude of application domains. A core problem that arises in most data-driven personalized decision scenarios is the estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects: what is…
(Th)Inking with data — tapping into the potential of the digital pen
| Nathalie Henry Riche
Whether at work or at home, people are regularly gathering and interpreting information to build their base of knowledge and gain a deeper understanding of the world around them. In this endeavor, they encounter data in many shapes and forms—lines…
Introducing TORC: A rigid haptic controller that renders elastic objects
| Mar Gonzalez Franco and Eyal Ofek
Oxymorons of haptics might be the new normal Consumer virtual reality (VR) systems can immerse users in wonderous virtual worlds, rich in sights and sounds. However, how many times have you reached for an object in VR or augmented reality…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services adds reinforcement learning for recommendations and doodle recognition AI
Microsoft has released Decision, a suite of decision-making recommendations, automated transcription services, and AI that recognizes and digitizes drawings. The suite will include Personalizer, a reinforcement learning service for recommendations or personalization designed to improve user engagement.
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s TORC will let you feel squeezable objects in AR and VR
Focusing on potential AR and VR applications, Microsoft researchers today announced TORC, short for Touch Rigid Controller, a small, physically solid device that uses haptics to replicate the elasticity of squeezed objects.