April 23, 2018

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…

April 23, 2018

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,…

April 23, 2018

Generating realistic images from a text description is a challenging task for a bot. A solution to this task has potential applications in the video game and image editing industries, among many others. Recently, researchers at Microsoft and elsewhere have…

April 23, 2018

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality each has distinct advantages when it comes to bringing digital capabilities into our everyday lives. Everything users see, including the environment and every object can be controlled and changed. This also means that what users…

April 20, 2018

The data in the Microsoft Academic Graph makes it possible to gain analytic insights about any of the entities in our knowledge graph: fields of study, authors, author affiliations, journals, and conferences. In this series, we present analytic insights about…

April 18, 2018

The notion of an “uncanny valley” is well known in robotics[1]. This is when increasing the realism of a robot’s human-like appearance can lead to feelings of unease—or even revulsion—as a robot becomes more and more (but never quite fully)…