In the news | Microsoft Stories India
Transforming translation for Indian languages with AI
At Microsoft, we believe that for India to become truly digital, we need to make technology accessible and productive for all, irrespective of the language they may speak or read. To break the language barrier, we started working with Indian…
Computer science researchers discuss the future of AI at Academic Research Summit in India
| Satish Sangameswaran
Leading computer science researchers from India and around the world gather this week in Hyderabad at the Academic Research Summit 2018 to discuss their vision for the future of artificial intelligence and how India-based computer science researchers can help turn…
Life at the Intersection of AI and Society with Dr. Ece Kamar
Episode 9, January 24, 2018 - As the reality of artificial intelligence continues to capture our imagination, and critical AI systems enter our world at a rapid pace, Dr. Ece Kamar, a senior researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction…
In the news | Nautilus
How to Understand Extreme Numbers
Dan Goldstein, principal researcher, and Jake Hofman, senior researcher, have been running experiments to see what kinds of contextual clues help people grasp the meaning of large quantities like distances, dollar amounts, population sizes, and more.
In the news | The Globe and Mail
More brains: Microsoft leads hunt to bring global AI experts to Canada
Canada is gearing up for its second wave of brain gains in the hot field of artificial intelligence. The country's global leadership in AI began when deep learning pioneer Geoff Hinton decamped from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for the…
Entity linking is a cognitive capability essential to human communication. It contains two challenging components: first, entity conflation, where we recognize that even though an entity is referred to by different names, it is still one item; and second, entity…
The future is quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore
Episode 8, January 17, 2018 - If someone mentions quantum computing, and you find yourself outwardly nodding your head, but secretly shaking it, you’re in good company: some of the world’s smartest people admit they don’t really understand it either.…
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast
The future is quantum with Dr. Krysta Svore
Dr. Svore shares her passion for quantum algorithms and their potential to solve some of the worldâs biggest problems, explains why Microsoftâs topological quantum bit â or qubit â is a game changer for quantum computing, and assures us that,…
微软亚洲研究院机器阅读系统在SQuAD挑战赛中率先超越人类水平
在由斯坦福大学发起的SQuAD（Stanford Question Answering Dataset）文本理解挑战赛的最新榜单上，微软亚洲研究院自然语言计算组于2018年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配）上以82.650的最高分领先，并率先超越人类分数82.304。 微软亚洲研究院院长洪小文第一时间向自然语言计算组表示了祝贺：“这对于...