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Microsoft Research Montreal Moves to Montreal AI hub
Montreal, Canada – September 18, 2018 – Microsoft Research Montreal announced today that it is relocating its office to Mile-Ex, Montreal’s new AI Hub. Since the start of 2017, the Microsoft Research Montreal lab has played a fundamental role in…
Thinking outside-of-the-black-box of machine learning on the long quest to perfecting automatic speech recognition
Speech recognition is something we humans do remarkably well, which includes our ability to understand speech even in noisy multi-talker environments. While our natural sophistication at this is something we take for granted, speech recognition researchers continue to pursue refinements…
Malmo, Minecraft and machine learning with Dr. Katja Hofmann
Episode 39, August 29, 2018 - Dr. Hofmann talks about her vision of a future where machines learn to collaborate with people and empower them to help solve complex, real-world problems. She also shares the story of how her early…
Optimizing imperative functions in relational databases with Froid
| Karthik Ramachandra
For decades, databases have supported declarative SQL as well as imperative functions and procedures as ways for users to express data processing tasks. While the evaluation of declarative SQL has received a lot of attention resulting in highly sophisticated techniques,…