Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
The late Charles P. Thacker was honored with the ACM – IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for fundamental networking and distributed computing contributions. Thacker, known as Chuck to friends and colleagues, designed the Alto, the first modern personal computer with a…
To really stop people from dying on city streets, identify and fix dangerous places before fatalities happen. New technology called “Vision Analytics” does just that. Vision Analytics is the result of a partnership between Microsoft,…
The 2017 Gödel Prize for outstanding paper in theoretical computer science was awarded to Cynthia Dwork along with former Microsoft Research colleagues Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim and Adam Smith for “Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data…
Microsoft researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based system that learned how to get the maximum score on the addictive 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man, using a divide-and-conquer method that could have broad implications…
One of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence systems has conquered the 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man. The team, from Microsoft-owned Canadian AI firm Maluuba, achieved the perfect score of 999,990.
Researchers at Maluuba, a deep-learning startup recently acquired by Microsoft, have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that became the first player ever to achieve a perfect 999,990 score in Ms Pac-Man — an arcade…
The complexity of Ms. Pac-Man, with its many boards and moving parts, has made the classic title an especially difficult target. Until now, no human or machine has achieved the feat.
Microsoft subsidiary Maluuba used multiple individual AI agents to defeat the video game — a long-time challenge for the AI and human community.
Ms. Pac-Man was supposed to be the more difficult arcade game. But now it’s been laid low — like chess, Go, and poker before it — by artificial intelligence. Researchers with deep learning company Maluuba,…
Sorry humans, Microsoft’s AI is the first to reach a perfect Ms. Pac-Man score. AI researchers have a documented penchant for using video games to test machine learning.
