In the news | Microsoft Blog
Achievement Unlocked – Nearly 200 million images into a national land cover map in about 10 minutes
When we started AI for Earth, we had one simple but huge ambition – to fundamentally transform the way we, as a society, monitor, model and manage Earth’s natural resources. That transformation will ultimately require collecting and processing exceptionally large…
In the news | InfoWorld
Data-driven agriculture: How IoT could change farming
Azure IoT Edge is powering Microsoft Research's agricultural monitoring and machine learning platform, called FarmBeats.
In the news | Microsoft Windows Blog
How to create accessible apps and immersive game experiences with new eye tracking APIs
Last year in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, we introduced Eye Control, an experience that allows customers to control Windows using only their eyes. We continue to design with individuals like Steve Gleason in mind, and always challenge ourselves…
Bringing low-resource languages and spoken dialects into play with Semi-Supervised Universal Neural Machine Translation
| Hany Hassan Awadalla
Machine translation has become a crucial component in the advancing of global communication. Millions of people are using online translation systems and mobile applications to communicate across language barriers. Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent years with the…
Insights on the future of video calling in emergency situations
For most of us, a call to emergency services is a rare act, or one thankfully that we’ve never had to take. Anyone having had to make that call often will, in a calmer future moment, reflect on what transpired…
Not lost in translation with Arul Menezes
Episode 24, May 16, 2018 - Menezes talks about how the advent of deep learning has enabled exciting advances in machine translation, including applications for people with disabilities, and gives us an inside look at the recent “human parity” milestone…
Microsoft Research welcomes Landon Cox, Senior Researcher with a passion for privacy and empowering users worldwide
Microsoft Research further bolsters its research force this month, welcoming Landon Cox to the Mobility and Networking Group as Senior Researcher.
In the news | Intel Newsroom
Intel FPGAs: Accelerating the Future
Project Brainwave is Microsoft's principal architecture for serving real-time artificial intelligence (AI) that is used in Bing's intelligent search, and now offered in Azure and at the edge.
Sounding the Future: Microsoft Research brings its best to ICASSP 2018 in Calgary
| Dimitrios Dimitriadis
Introduction Speech technology has come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell's famous Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you became the first speech to be heard over the telephone in 1876. Today, speech technology has…