Optimizing Barnes-Hut t-SNE
| Tavian Barnes
Ten years ago, while writing a physics engine, I learned about the Barnes-Hut algorithm for the gravitational n-body problem. Normally, computing the Newtonian gravitational forces between n bodies requires evaluations of Newton's law of universal gravitation, as every body exerts…
Making intelligence intelligible with Dr. Rich Caruana
Episode 26, May 30, 2018 - Dr. Rich Caruana talks about how the rise of deep neural networks has made understanding machine predictions more difficult for humans, and discusses an interesting class of smaller, more interpretable models that may help…
Advancing accessibility with Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
Episode 25, May 23, 2018 - Dr. Morris gives us some fascinating insights into the world of “ability,” talks about how technology is augmenting not only sensory and motor abilities, but cognitive and social abilities as well, and shares how…
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.
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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…