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…
In the news | Making Play Possible
Making Play Possible
In the news | The Globe and Mail
The hidden cost of annoying ads is fewer page views
The study found that, indeed, participants gave up their task more quickly when they were shown annoying ads.
Rapid Adaptation and Metalearning with Conditionally Shifted Neurons
| Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Eric Yuan, Soroush Mehri, and Adam Trischler
The Machine Comprehension team at MSR-Montreal recently developed a neural mechanism for metalearning that we call conditionally shifted neurons. Conditionally shifted neurons (CSNs) adapt their activation values rapidly to new data to help neural networks solve new tasks. They do…
Clouds, catapults and life after the end of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger
Episode 23, May 9, 2018 - Dr. Burger talks about how advances in AI and deep machine learning have placed new acceleration demands on current hardware and computer architecture, offers some observations about the demise of Moore’s Law, and shares…
Awards | The Royal Society
Butler Lampson inducted into The Royal Society
Butler Lampson, a computing legend and Microsoft researcher who helped create the world’s first personal computer, tablets, printers and word processing programs, was invited to join The Royal Society (opens in new tab) – the UK’s national science academy, with a fellowship…
Customized neural machine translation with Microsoft Translator
Released in preview this week at Build 2018, the new Microsoft Translator custom feature lets users customize neural machine translation systems. These customizations can be applied to both text and speech translation workflows. Microsoft Translator released neural machine translation (NMT)…