In the news | CNET
Microsoft Windows 10 April 2018 Update aims to shield us from notifications
Notifications are both one of the most revolutionary inventions of the mobile age, and one of the most hated features on our devices. The little nudges typically appear as a number sitting atop an app's icon or a text alert…
In the news | Windows Blog
Make the most of your time with the new Windows 10 update
We all get the same 24 hours. And now, more than ever, it seems like it’s never enough. People feel more overwhelmed than ever before and pretty much all of us would love more time – not necessarily time to…
In the news | USA Today
Microsoft’s Windows 10 tries to stop pointless multi-tasking
How do you freshen up a venerable operating system like Windows 10, and get you to care, especially when you release an update to the software as frequently as every six months or so?
AI, machine learning and the reasoning machine with Dr. Geoff Gordon
Episode 21, April 25, 2018 - Dr. Gordon gives us a brief history of AI, including his assessment of why we might see a break in the weather-pattern of AI winters, talks about how collaboration is essential to innovation in…
Measuring employment demand with internet search data
| Scott Counts and Justin Cranshaw
The United States, along with much of the world, is in the midst of an economic transition from manual to intellectual labor. The changing nature of work, including the automation of labor, is an important issue facing society, with implications…
23 April 2018, Hong Kong – Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Microsoft’s world-class research arm, and Orient Overseas Container Line Limited (OOCL) announced their partnership in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) research to improve network operations and achieve efficiencies within the shipping industry. The…
In the news | Data Center Knowledge
Why Microsoft Has Bet on FPGAs to Infuse Its Cloud With AI, by Mary Branscombe
April 20th, 2018 Graph Update
The Microsoft Academic Graph that powers Microsoft Academic is updated on a weekly basis to ensure data coverage and accuracy. Here are the numbers for the latest update: Entity April 20 Release Publications 173,763,013 Authors 210,806,214 Affiliations 18,719 Journals 47,939 Conference series 4,027 Fields…
HEARING IS BELIEVING – Researchers’ innovation provides a richer web-browsing experience for people who are blind
Imagine for a moment that you are blind and are navigating the web using a screen reader to hear websites rather than see them. Imagine that the article you have navigated to includes images. To understand the content and significance,…