By John Roach If you really want to learn to speak a foreign language, everyone knows that practice is essential. The challenge is to find someone with the time, patience and skill to help you practice pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.…
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Microsoft AI simulator includes autonomous car research
Microsoft's artificial intelligence simulator has been expanded to include autonomous car research. The company has announced that its AirSim system will be used for testing the safety of vehicle artificial intelligence systems.
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Collaborative Research Program is a vital platform for faculty members in Asia working together with MSRA researchers on mutually interested topics. We aspire to foster talents and establish Microsoft as a valuable research and technology partner…
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Can AI be taught to explain itself?
As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field’s researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know — or how they know it.
First established in the 1950s, China’s Friendship Awards honor the achievements of foreign experts in the country’s economic and social progress. Beijing’s municipal government established the Great Wall Friendship Award in 1999, and it remains the highest award that foreign…
Awards | Microsoft Research Asia
Hsiao-Wuen Hon receives 2014-2016 Great Wall Friendship Award
The Beijing Municipal Government presented a 2014-2016 Great Wall Friendship Award to Hsiao-Wuen Hon, corporate vice president of Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D group and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia. Hon was chosen for extraordinary contributions in the fields of…
FigureQA: an annotated figure dataset for visual reasoning
Reasoning about figures Almost every scientific publication is accompanied by data visualizations in the form of graphs and charts. Figures are an intuitive aid for understanding the content of documents, so naturally, it is useful to leverage this visual information for…
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AI wave rolls through Microsoft’s language translation technologies
A fresh wave of artificial intelligence rolling through Microsoft’s language translation technologies is bringing more accurate speech recognition to more of the world’s languages and higher quality machine-powered translations to all 60 languages supported by Microsoft’s translation technologies.