Boundary-seeking GANs: A new method for adversarial generation of discrete data
| Devon Hjelm and Athul Jacob
Generative models are an important subset of machine learning goals and tasks that require realistic and statistically accurate generation of target data. Among all available generative models, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged recently as a leading and state-of-the-art method,…
Awards | Network Science Society
Duncan Watts honored as an inaugural Fellow of the Network Science Society
Duncan Watts is among seven people elected as an inaugural Fellow of the Network Science Society (opens in new tab). The organization serves and represents a research community that coalesced around Watts’ pioneering research (opens in new tab) that mathematically explains why everyone…
Neural-Guided Deductive Search: A best of both worlds approach to program synthesis
| Alex Polozov
Program synthesis — automatically generating a program that satisfies a given specification — is a major challenge in AI. In addition to changing the way we design software, it has the potential to revolutionize task automation. End users without programming…
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…