Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Nikolaj Bjorner and Leonardo de Moura received the Herbrand Award 2019 for their exceptional and numerous contributions with Z3 to SMT solving, including theory, implementation, and application to a wide range of academic and industrial needs.
Microsoft launches the Microsoft Soundscape service in Swedish, an application that uses 3D audio to create a more natural way for people with visual impairment to experience the environment.
The custom-made SkyView service is based on technology from Microsoft’s Soundscape service based on 3D audio technology that follows the user’s positioning and tells you what’s nearby.
To see the divide between the best artificial intelligence and the mental capabilities of a seven-year-old child, look no further than the popular video game Minecraft. A young human can learn how to find a…
Microsoft Research’s Natural Language Processing Group released the dialogue generative pre-trained transformer (DialoGPT), a pre-trained deep-learning natural language processing (NLP) model for automatic conversation response generation. The model was trained on over 147M dialogues and achieves state-of-the-art results on…
The largest enterprises have amassed an incredible amount of data from a variety of sources. But, the problem is identifying that data, accessing it and using that most precious asset effectively.
Bing revealed today that it has been using BERT in search results before Google, and it’s also being used at a larger scale. Google’s use of BERT in search results is currently affecting 10% of…
Bing has been using BERT to improve the quality of search results since April, Microsoft has stated. The transformer models are now applied to every Bing query globally.
Microsoft is continuing to evolve its unified Microsoft Search service. The latest pieces it is integrating into Microsoft Search involve its ‘Project Turing’ deep-learning work, as well as advances it is making around semantic meaning…
