From the boardroom to the operating room: Making human-computer interaction for an era of more personal computing
Posted by Allison Linn A summary of Microsoft researchers' papers from CHI 2015 are listed below. About 70 Microsoft researchers are traveling this week to ACM CHI 2015, the premiere conference on human-computer interaction, to present research results and tools…
Awards | ACM
Rick Rashid receives ACM Software System Award
Rick Rashid and Avie Tevanian received the Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award for the design and engineering of the Mach operating system, whose innovative approaches to virtual memory management and microkernel architecture established a foundation for later operating…
Microsoft Azure helps build a smart campus
As any student can tell you, university life can be stressful. Many freshmen find it difficult to adjust during their first months on campus. In addition, students who come from families with limited income may worry about living within their…
Lab of Things helping seniors who live alone
Leaving an infirm, elderly relative alone at home can be a torment for both the senior citizen, who may face inconvenient or even life-threatening situations, and the family, who worries about the health and safety of their loved one. Unfortunately,…
In the news | Microsoft Bing Blogs
Who starts preparing taxes first?
In case you missed it, today is tax day. This year we thought we’d look at several years of Bing data to see if we can learn anything about when people start preparing their taxes. In order to do this,…
今天，我们正式宣布在中国市场推出Skype Translator实时语音翻译技术的中文预览版。自此，英文和中文普通话之间的实时语音对话将成为现实。Skype Translator不仅凝聚了微软在语音识别、自动翻译和机器学习等科技领域几十年的研究成果，更深刻地体现了微软“用户体验至上”的理念。自2014年12月Skype Translator 推出英文和西班牙文之间的实时语音翻译之后，此次在中国市场...
Research moves from the lab to the street
Imagine a street dance in which the participants interact not just with their flesh-and-blood counterparts but also with lights and sounds controlled by the dancers’ own movements. That’s what visitors to SummerSalt, an outdoor arts festival in Melbourne, Australia, experienced.…
Probabilistic programming goes large scale: From reducing email clutter to any machine learning task
Posted by George Thomas Jr. How is it you seem to be spending more and more time every day sifting through and prioritizing email messages? According to research by The Radicati Group, Inc., the legitimate emails you receive — already upwards…
Contest promotes automation of machine learning
Machine learning is the cornerstone of today’s modern data analysis. The gurus of “big data” analytics are all well versed in machine learning, but most domain specialists still must hire data scientists to meet their data-analysis needs. It's inevitable, though,…