MineRL sample-efficient reinforcement learning challenge—back for a second year—benefits organizers, as well as larger research community
| Noboru Sean Kuno
To unearth a diamond in the block-based open world of Minecraft requires the acquisition of materials and the construction of tools before any diamond mining can even begin. Players need to gather wood, which they’ll use to make a wood…
With the rise of remote work and distance learning, Microsoft Whiteboard, a collaborative design tool, has seen its usage increase, as designers and students look for ways to collaborate with others, without being in the same place. Researchers wanted to…
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Microsoft Research announce TileCode, a game creation app that can run on handhelds
Microsoft Research has announced a new project – Microsoft TileCode, (opens in new tab) which is a game creation app that allows you to design, code, and play video games directly on low-cost Microsoft MakeCode Arcade gaming handhelds (opens in new tab), as well…
Awards | Treasury Today
Adam Smith Award 2020 – Best Accounts Receivable Solution
Although most Microsoft enterprise customers pay on time, over the last few years approximately 20% of customers pay late. Microsoft’s yearly revenue is over US$100bn, and the cost of capital due to late payments represented dozens of millions of dollars…
Awards | Treasury Today
Adam Smith Award 2020 – Judges’ Choice
Technology companies are familiar with viruses which infect our systems but when the coronavirus struck this was unprecedented. As Dennis Crispin, Global Financial Solutions (GFS) Group Manager recalls, “the COVID-19 global pandemic required us to think about what it truly…
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Now a unique machine translation tool from Hindi to Gondi
This app, developed by Microsoft Research Lab, CGNet Swara and IIIT Naya Raipur, during the lockdown, hopes to motivate youth from the Gond Adivasi community to learn the Gondi language.
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Researchers bring Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel into VR
If your dreams occasionally involve spreadsheets that extend endlessly in all directions, good news: Researchers have developed a virtual reality spreadsheet interface that could expand Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel files from flat screens into 3D spaces. Rather than being…
Research Collection: The Unseen History of Audio and Acoustics Research at Microsoft
Getting the sound right is a crucial ingredient in natural user interfaces, immersive gaming, realistic virtual and mixed reality, and ubiquitous computing.
Adversarial robustness as a prior for better transfer learning
| Hadi Salman
Editor’s note: This post and its research are the collaborative efforts of our team, which includes Andrew Ilyas (opens in new tab) (PhD Student, MIT), Logan Engstrom (opens in new tab) (PhD Student, MIT), Aleksander Mądry (opens in new tab)…