Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
As the desire to use AI for more scenarios has grown, Microsoft scientists and product developers have pioneered a complementary approach called machine teaching. This relies on people’s expertise to break a problem into easier…
Microsoft is rallying behind ‘machine teaching,’ and it’s loosely defined by Microsoft as a set of tools that human experts in any field can use to train AI on their own.
Most people wouldn’t think to teach five-year-olds how to hit a baseball by handing them a bat and ball, telling them to toss the objects into the air in a zillion different combinations and hoping…
Will robots take our jobs? They’ll need a key human skill first—the ability to think. To find out just how near such a future is, we visited Ashley J. Llorens, chief of the Intelligent Systems…
In honor of April Awareness Month, I spoke to Margaret Price and Mary Czerwinski, two behavioral researchers from Microsoft, on proactive ways of dealing with stress. Price researches human behavior through our relationship with technology,…
Microsoft Research has introduced a new open source programming language called Bosque that aspires to be simple and easy to understand by embracing algebraic operations and shunning techniques that create complexity. Bosque was inspired by…
AI for Earth is a multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative to deploy the full scale of Microsoftâs products, policies and partnerships across four key areas of agriculture, water, biodiversity and climate, and transform the way society…
Since 2009, Microsoft has made and met a series of commitments to reduce the company’s carbon footprint. While we’ve made progress toward our goal of cutting our operational carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030,…
The concept of microtasks is not new and is most commonly associated with crowdwork. In crowdwork, tasks are short and independent in nature, and workers don’t have to worry about how the tasks are created…
