Awards | Geospacial World Forum
Ranveer Chandra earns 2018 Geospatial World Excellence Award for FarmBeats
Ranveer Chandra received a 2018 Geospatial World Excellence Award at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India, for the FarmBeats AI & IoT Agriculture project. The forum is the world’s largest annual gathering of the geospatial community – people who build and use technologies…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft creates AI that can read a document and answer questions about it as well as a person
With machine reading comprehension, researchers say computers also would be able to quickly parse through information found in books and documents and provide people with the information they need most in an easily understandable way.
January 2018 graph update
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.…
Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
Episode 7, January 10, 2018 - When we look at a skyscraper or a suspension bridge, a simple search engine box on a screen looks tiny by comparison. But Dr. Simon Peyton Jones would like to remind us that computer…
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast
Functional Programming Languages and the Pursuit of Laziness with Dr. Simon Peyton Jones
Dr. Peyton Jones shares his passion for functional programming research, reveals how a desire to help other researchers write and present better turned him into an unlikely YouTube star, and explains why, at least in the world of programming languages,…
The new year ushers in a brand new homepage for Microsoft Academic, as a sign of exciting developments to come. We released the new homepage to let you, our users, know that we are working on a major redesign of…
Class of 2018-19 PhD fellows to push frontiers of AI
| Sandy Blyth
Class of 2018-19 PhD fellows to push frontiers of AI By Sandy Blyth A graduate student working on technology that leverages human brain signals to accelerate robot learning and another student who is developing models of human conversations that capture…
In the news | The Register
Microsoft offloads networking to FPGA-powered NICs
Microsoft has switched on new network interface cards packing field-programmable gate arrays and announced that doing so has let it hit 30Gbps of throughput for servers in Azure.
In the news | The Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence: Deep learning brings speed, accuracy to the life sciences
The Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence: Deep learning brings speed, accuracy to the life sciences