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PowerPoint is easier than ever with Microsoft’s new A.I. tools
Microsoft is leaning in on the power of artificial intelligence to help Office 365 subscribers create beautiful PowerPoint slides. By dragging and dropping in your favorite images and the relevant text to a slide, PowerPoint Designer leverages A.I. to automatically…
A picture from a dozen words – A drawing bot for realizing everyday scenes—and even stories
If you were asked to draw a picture of several people in ski gear, standing in the snow, chances are you’d start with an outline of three or four people reasonably positioned in the center of the canvas, then sketch…
Interview with Hadi Salman, AI Resident Tell us about yourself and why you decided to join the AI Residency Program. I did my undergraduate work at the American University of Beirut and I graduated in 2016 with a double major…
Awards | Rethinking Financial Inclusion: From Access to Autonomy
David B Martin Best Paper Award
European CSCW 2019 Best Paper Award for paper on financial inclusion and future of work, published by Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
Envisioning privacy preserving image-based localization for augmented reality
New camera localization technology for sensitive environments can keep images and map data confidential Advances in augmented reality (AR) and mobile robotics promise to revolutionize how we see and interact with our physical world in the future. Today, AR and…
HELP! Training assistive indoor agents to ask for assistance via imitation learning
| Debadeepta Dey, Khanh Nguyen, Chris Brockett, and Bill Dolan
Today people use personal digital assistants for help with scheduling, playing music, turning on or adjusting other devices, and answering basic questions such as “What time’s the game on?” or “Where’s the nearest hardware store?” But what if these assistants…
All Data AI with Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon
You may not know who Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon is, but if you’ve watched a TV show or movie in the last two decades, you’ve probably seen some of his work. An expert in 3D computer vision and graphics, and head…
Awards | ACM SIGAI
Winner of 2019 ACM SIGAI Industry Award
The selection committee for the ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is pleased to announce that the Decision Service created by the Real World Reinforcement Learning Team from Microsoft, has been chosen as the winner of…