June 17, 2020

Since AlexNet was invented in 2012, there has been rapid development in convolutional neural network architectures in computer vision. Representative architectures (Figure 1) include GoogleNet (2014), VGGNet (2014), ResNet (2015), and DenseNet (2016), which are developed initially from image classification.…

June 17, 2020 | Meredith Ringel Morris

This year marks the fourth year of the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant, which offers grants of up to $25,000 to support the research of students nearing the completion of doctoral degrees at North American universities who are underrepresented in the…

June 17, 2020

Many computer science researchers set their sights on building general AI technologies that could impact hundreds of millions – or even billions – of people. But Dr. Danielle Bragg, a senior researcher at MSR’s New England lab, has a slightly…

June 16, 2020

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, data scientists and user researchers have been partnering with the Education product team to help them better understand what is happening with teaching and learning in remote settings.

June 16, 2020 | Tristan Sylvain, Devon Hjelm, and Linda Petrini

In computer vision, one key property we expect of an intelligent artificial model, agent, or algorithm is that it should be able to correctly recognize the type, or class, of objects it encounters. This is critical in numerous important real-world…

June 16, 2020 | Sharad Agarwal

Editor’s Note: The author would like to give special thanks to his collaborators, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Professor of Computer Science at UC Irvine, Sung Eun (Summer) Kim, Professor of Law at UC Irvine, and UC Irvine students Saeed Mirzamohammadi, Yuxin…