What problems will we solve with a quantum computer?
New paper suggests quantum computers will address problems that could have substantial scientific and economic impact With rapid recent advances in quantum technology, we have drawn ever closer to the threshold of quantum devices whose computational powers can exceed those…
Watch the livestream of the 2017 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit—The Edge of AI
By Evelyne Viegas, Program Co-Chair of Faculty Summit and Director, Microsoft We are looking forward to another informative Microsoft Research Faculty Summit (July 17-18, 2017) where this year’s theme is The Edge of AI. The event will consist of keynotes, sessions,…
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Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi receive 2017 Visionary Award
The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce in Massachusetts honored Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi and their colleague John Doench at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with a 2017 Visionary Award for their application of machine learning techniques to improve the accuracy and…
In the news | The AI Blog
AI’s big leap to tiny devices opens world of possibilities
Ofer Dekel leads a multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, software engineers and interns at research labs in Redmond and Bangalore, India, that is developing a new class of machine-learning software and tools to embed artificial intelligence onto bread-crumb size computer…
In the news | The Science Times
Listeners Seeing What They Hear: Virtual Reality & 3D Acoustics Integration
Researchers Ivan J. Tashev and Hannes Gamper, with Microsoft's Audio and Research Group, say that an individual interpretation of acoustic reception depends on the bodily motion while listening to sound. Even head movements could vary when the listener is moving.
Dissertation Grant Winners Announced
Support for under-represented Ph.D. students in computer sciences By Lynn Parker, Writer, Microsoft The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant program offers financial support to selected doctoral students from groups that are under-represented in the field of computing in the form of…
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3D sound to let you hear Walking Dead zombies first
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Saving Snow Leopards with Deep Learning and Computer Vision on Spark
Snow leopards are highly endangered animals that inhabit high-altitude steppes and mountainous terrain in Asia and Central Asia. There's only an estimated 3900-6500 individuals left in the wild. Due the cats' remote habitat, expansive range and extremely elusive nature, they…
Microsoft and intelligent markets at ACM EC’17
By David Pennock, Principal Researcher and Assistant Managing Director The 18th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'17) starts today at MIT in Cambridge, MA, featuring some of the latest research findings at the interdisciplinary boundary between economics and computer…