February 7, 2018

Episode 11, February 7, 2018 - Big data is a big deal, and if you follow the popular technical press, you’ll have heard all the metaphors: data is the new oil, the new bacon, the new currency, the new electricity.…

February 6, 2018

Beijing, Jan 31, 2018, Pearson and Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) jointly announced that they have signed a three-year strategic partnership agreement after successfully launching Longman English+, an English language learning application last year.

February 5, 2018

The Microsoft Academic Graph  that powers Microsoft Academic  is updated on a weekly basis to ensure data coverage and accuracy. You can always see the current numbers on our homepage, and we document them on the blog once a month.…

February 5, 2018 | Eyal Ofek and Michel Pahud

Much of the hype around Virtual Reality, or VR, has focused on immersive gaming and entertainment, but the technology also has profound implications for enhancing the way we work. Imagine the perfect office environment: multiple large displays, proper lighting, free…

February 5, 2018

也许离真正取代人类劳动力还有很长的距离，但毫无疑问的是，人工智能已经进入了一个“野蛮生长”的阶段。刚刚跨入2018年的人类再次被超越——这一次，是阅读理解。 在斯坦福大学发起的SQuAD（Stanford Question Answering Dataset）文本理解挑战赛中，微软亚洲研究院自然语言计算组于1月3日提交的R-NET模型在EM值（Exact Match, 表示预测答案和真实答案完全匹...

February 1, 2018 | Roy Zimmermann

Today marks the establishment of the Cortana Intelligence Institute – a new, co-funded collaboration between Microsoft Research, Cortana Research and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, to work on next-generation capabilities for Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana. At Microsoft, we are constantly…

January 31, 2018

Episode 10, January 31, 2018 - We can program computers to do almost anything. But what about programming computers to… program computers? That’s a task that Dr. Rishabh Singh, and the team in the Cognition group at Microsoft Research, are…

January 30, 2018 | Christopher Bishop

Harness Machine Learning to Improve People’s Lives At Microsoft, we are committed to leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to benefit people and greater society. Advances in AI can be applied to address some of the world’s biggest challenges,…