CHI Part 2: Creating technologies that enhance lives in the areas of health and eye tracking
By Justin Cranshaw, Researcher, Microsoft Research With its focus on the relationships between people and computation, the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) excels at creating technologies that marry human skills with computational functionality, to enable outcomes neither humans nor computers…
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Microsoft’s Project Catapult wins GeekWire’s ‘Innovation of the Year’ award
Project Catapult, a longtime research initiative on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), received the 'Innovation of the year' award during the ceremony held at the Museum of Pop Culture.
The collaborative research program is a vital platform for research scientists and university professors to work together on advanced technologies with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) researchers. This year, the Microsoft Research Asia Outreach team is excited to welcome a total…
CHI Part 1: Interacting through touch, virtually and physically
A preview of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems By Justin Cranshaw, Researcher, Microsoft Research Human-computer interaction (HCI) research at Microsoft provides a human-centered perspective on the future of computing, reshaping the roles computers play in…
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Microsoft is teaching systems to read, answer and even ask questions
Microsoft researchers have already created technology that can do two difficult tasks about as well as a person: identify images and recognize words in a conversation. Now, the company’s leading AI experts are working on systems that can do something…
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Project Catapult garners 2017 GeekWire Innovation of the Year award
Technology news website GeekWire named Microsoft’s Project Catapult the Innovation of the Year at its 2017 GeekWire Awards ceremony. The initiative “puts the company at the forefront of field programmable gate arrays, of FPGAs,” according to GeekWire. The technology is at the heart…
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Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of Royal Society
Chris Bishop, a world-renowned expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. The Royal Society was founded in the 1660s to recognize, promote and support excellence in science and…
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Eric Horvitz elected a Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics
Eric Horvitz was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics for making significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. The field of medical informatics harnesses data gathered throughout health and healthcare to improve outcomes, lower costs,…
Deep Learning for Program Synthesis
By Rishabh Singh, Jacob Devlin, Abdelrahman Mohamed, and Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Despite the many advances in computing over the past decades, the actual process of writing computer software has not fundamentally changed — a programmer must manually code the exact algorithmic logic…