In the news | Machine Learning Blog
Calling All AI Innovators – Join the ‘Cloud AI Challenge’ for a Chance to Win $25,000
The AI revolution is poised to unleash unprecedented innovation and impact on our society. Several research and development groups across Microsoft have hit their stride in delivering world-changing impact through the power of AI. Working together, we are creating a…
In the news | Bing Blog
Bing launches new intelligent search features, powered by AI
Today we announced new Intelligent Search features for Bing, powered by AI, to give you answers faster, give you more comprehensive and complete information, and enable you to interact more naturally with your search engine. Intelligent answers leverage the latest…
In the news | Microsoft in Health Blog
Microsoft Announces Private Preview, Partnerships For A.I.-Powered Health Bot Project
Today, we’re pleased to announce the private preview of a new AI-powered project from Microsoft’s Healthcare NExT initiative which is designed to enable our healthcare partners to easily create intelligent and compliant healthcare virtual assistants and chatbots. These bots are…
CodeTalk: Rethinking IDE accessibility
| Suresh Parthasarathy and Gopal Srinivasa
It is a bright afternoon in the Microsoft Research India lab. Research Fellow, Venkatesh Potluri, sits at his computer, frantically racing against the clock to fix one last bug before the end of the day. The computer blares into his…
Collecting telemetry data privately
| Bolin Ding, Janardhan (Jana) Kulkarni, and Sergey Yekhanin
The collection and analysis of telemetry data from users and their devices leads to improved user experiences and informed business decisions. However, users have concerns about their data privacy, including what personal information software and internet companies are gathering and…
December 2017 Graph Update
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 this week's update, which you can access through the Academic Knowledge API or Microsoft Academic:…
New Meta-learning Techniques for Neural Program Induction
| Rishabh Singh
Much research in AI lately focuses on extending the capabilities of deep learning architectures: moving beyond simple classification and pattern recognition into the realm of learning algorithmic tasks, such as inductive programming. Building on our past work in neural program…
In the news | Wired
A Tiny New Chip Could Secure the Next Generation of IoT
Microsoft Research has poured its IoT efforts into Project Sopris, placing the IoT security focus to microcontrollers, while keeping costs down.
Deliberation Network: Pushing the frontiers of neural machine translation
| Fei Tian
During the Tang dynasty of China, which lasted from 618 to 907, the poet Jia Dao was known for polishing his poems over and over to make them better and better. One famous story describes how he deliberated over two…