In the news | Mayo Clinic Transform 2017
Mind the Gap: James Weinstein, D.O.
James Weinstein is Chief Executive Officer and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. Under his leadership, Dartmouth-Hitchcock is working to create a “sustainable health system” for the patients and communities it serves, for generations to come.
Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research take giant step towards eliminating network downtime
| Victor Bahl
At the 26th ACM Annual Symposium on Operating Systems and Principles, better known as SOSP 2017, my colleagues described a new technology called CrystalNet - a high-fidelity, cloud-scale emulator that helps network engineers nearly eliminate network downtime related to routine…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Bringing AI translation to edge devices with Microsoft Translator
An AI-dedicated processor available on the Huawei Mate 10, even in the absence of internet access, enables the system to produce translations whose quality is on par with the online system.
Many computer vision applications require the points on an object in one image to be matched with their corresponding object points in another image, such as a car door handle matched to a different model of car’s door handle.
Awards | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Gary J. Sullivan Leads JCT-VC to 2017 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award for the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award in 2017 to the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), an engineering experts' group led by co-chairs Gary J. Sullivan of Microsoft and Jens-Rainer Ohm of…
2017 Beauty of Programming contest winners take big AI steps
On August 15, the sixth annual Microsoft Beauty of Programming Challenge — a programming competition for college students in Asia — came to a close. This year's theme focused on artificial intelligence question and answer (Q&A) projects. The challenge asked…
In the news | VRScout
Is Sound the Secret Sauce for Making Immersive Experiences?
To build truly believable virtual environments, we need to believe our ears as much as our eyes.
MakeCode for Minecraft makes learning to code super fun
| Peli de Halleux
A few years ago, my group in Microsoft’s research organization began to experiment with tools that make it possible for kids to learn how to code in the context of Minecraft, the wildly popular game where players build fantastical…
Changing the world with data science
| Kenji Takeda
Alan Turing asked the question “can machines think?” in 1950 and it still intrigues us today. At The Alan Turing Institute, the United Kingdom’s national institute for data science in London, more than 150 researchers are pursuing this question by…