Sounding the Future: Microsoft Research brings its best to ICASSP 2018 in Calgary
| Dimitrios Dimitriadis
Introduction Speech technology has come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell's famous Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you became the first speech to be heard over the telephone in 1876. Today, speech technology has…
In the news | Making Play Possible
Making Play Possible
In the news | The Globe and Mail
The hidden cost of annoying ads is fewer page views
The study found that, indeed, participants gave up their task more quickly when they were shown annoying ads.
Rapid Adaptation and Metalearning with Conditionally Shifted Neurons
| Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Eric Yuan, Soroush Mehri, and Adam Trischler
The Machine Comprehension team at MSR-Montreal recently developed a neural mechanism for metalearning that we call conditionally shifted neurons. Conditionally shifted neurons (CSNs) adapt their activation values rapidly to new data to help neural networks solve new tasks. They do…
Clouds, catapults and life after the end of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger
Episode 23, May 9, 2018 - Dr. Burger talks about how advances in AI and deep machine learning have placed new acceleration demands on current hardware and computer architecture, offers some observations about the demise of Moore’s Law, and shares…
Awards | The Royal Society
Butler Lampson inducted into The Royal Society
Butler Lampson, a computing legend and Microsoft researcher who helped create the world’s first personal computer, tablets, printers and word processing programs, was invited to join The Royal Society (opens in new tab) – the UK’s national science academy, with a fellowship…
Customized neural machine translation with Microsoft Translator
Released in preview this week at Build 2018, the new Microsoft Translator custom feature lets users customize neural machine translation systems. These customizations can be applied to both text and speech translation workflows. Microsoft Translator released neural machine translation (NMT)…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft Build goes gaga for AI: Azure Machine Learning and beyondMicrosoft is luring A.I. developers to its cloud by offering them faster chips
Microsoft says FPGA acceleration of models can actually be a good bit faster than GPU acceleration, so Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models have the potential to create a super-fast AI infrastructure.
In the news | The AI Blog
Real-time AI: Microsoft announces preview of Project Brainwave
Every day, thousands of gadgets and widgets whish down assembly lines run by the manufacturing solutions provider Jabil, on their way into the hands of customers. Along the way, an automated optical inspection system scans them for any signs of…