In the news | TIME
Robots to Humans: You Lose. We Just Finally Conquered Ms. Pac-Man
A group of tech superheroes — also known as researchers at recent Microsoft acquisition Maluuba — have achieved the seeming impossible, and reached the maximum possible score on classic 1980s Atari game Ms. Pac-Man.
In the news | Business Insider
A Microsoft robot got the highest all-time score in ‘Ms. Pac-Man’
Game over, man. A Microsoft-made artificial-intelligence system has achieved a perfect score of 999,990 points on the Atari 2600 version of the classic "Ms. Pac-Man" — making it very likely the first time anybody, human or robot, has "beaten" the…
In the news | Wired
Microsoft Masters Ms. Pac-Man With a Horde of AI Agents
How defeating a classic 1982 videogame could help Microsoft make better enterprise software.
In the news | Fortune
Microsoft Claims its Artificial Intelligence is a Ms. Pac-Man Whiz
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technology, it turns out, is a whiz at playing Ms. Pac-Man, the 1980’s-era video game. The tech giant’s computers achieved a perfect score of 990,900, surpassing the existing (human held) record of 266,360...
In the news | The Seattle Times
Bereaved father, Microsoft data scientists crunch numbers to combat infant deaths
Spurred by a colleague’s family tragedy, a Microsoft team deployed analysis and data visualization tools and found promising leads in combating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Seattle Children’s Hospital is partnering with Microsoft to further the research.
Awards | ACM SIGecom
Peng Shi earns 2017 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award
The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (ACM SIGecom) honored Microsoft post-doctoral researcher Peng Shi with the 2017 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “Prediction and Optimization in School Choice,” submitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School…
A Joint Model for Question Answering and Question Generation
At the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, one of our primary research focuses is to advance the field of Question Answering. Automatic question-answering systems can provide humans with efficient access to vast amounts of information, and the task also acts as…
NSF Big Data Innovation Hubs collaboration — looking back after one year
By Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science Significant technical advancements in cloud computing have led to lower infrastructure costs, making possible big storage and big computing. Big data technology, though, requires cross-discipline research within and beyond non-computing domains. This is where…
In the news | Seattle Children's - On the Pulse
How Microsoft Data Scientists Are Helping Seattle Children’s Solve SIDS
John Kahan manages a team of renowned Microsoft data scientists who are changing how society can use data effectively, from deciding when to plant crops to creating predictive business models.