Awards | Microsoft Stories
Artificial intelligence eclipses cloud and mobile projects to win the day at Microsoft 2017 Hackathon
What started in 2014 as an experiment to engage employees has turned into a strategic tradition to help Microsoft establish itself at the leading edge of innovation. And this year, the hottest player at the Microsoft Hackathon was artificial intelligence.
In the news | Wired
To Protect Genetic Privacy, Encrypt Your DNA
Kristin Lauter, head of cryptography research at Microsoft, leads research that encodes data in such a way that scientists don't lose the flexibility to perform medically useful genetic tests.
In the news | Fortune
Microsoft is building its own AI Hardware with project Brainwave
Microsoft unveils Project Brainwave for real-time AI
By Doug Burger, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Today at Hot Chips 2017, our cross-Microsoft team unveiled a new deep learning acceleration platform, codenamed Project Brainwave. I’m delighted to share more details in this post, since Project Brainwave achieves a major leap…
Real world interactive learning at cusp of enabling new class of applications
By Alekh Agarwal and John Langford, Microsoft Research New York Clicks on Microsoft’s news website MSN.com increased 26 percent when a machine-learning system based on contextual-bandit algorithms was deployed in January 2016 to personalize news articles for individual users. The…
In the news | Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Disability Inclusion at Microsoft: A Personal Journey – Amos Miller
“Working in an organization like Microsoft, it’s like working in a toy store,” said Amos Miller, a product strategist with Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research team. “You basically have everything around you to help you with what you want to…
In the news | geekwire
Microsoft’s project Brainwave puts ‘real-time artificial intelligence’ into high-tech chips
In the news | Quartz
Microsoft is fixing a simple reason why voice assistants are so bad
As more and more of us ask the virtual personal assistants that live on our phones what the weather will be tomorrow or the height of the Chrysler Building (1,046 feet), it’s clear that the voice-activated software is currently only…
Microsoft researchers achieve new conversational speech recognition milestone
| Xuedong Huang
Last year, Microsoft’s speech and dialog research group announced a milestone in reaching human parity on the Switchboard conversational speech recognition task, meaning we had created technology that recognized words in a conversation as well as professional human transcribers. After…