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SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: AirSim
With AirSim, users can safely test their autonomous solutions without worrying about any real-world damage. Once they feel their solution is ready, they move on to real-world testing.
News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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Microsoft and partners combine the cloud, AI, research and industry expertise to focus on transforming health care
Healthcare NExT, a new initiative to dramatically transform health care, will deeply integrate greenfield research and health technology product development, as well as establish a new model at Microsoft for strategic health industry partnerships.
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Microsoft open sources a simulator to crash-test drones, robots and self-driving cars
A team of researchers at Microsoft have built and open sourced a simulation tool to help people train autonomous cars, drones and robots learn how to avoid obstacles just like they would in the real…
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Microsoft shares open source system for training drones, other gadgets to move safely on their own
When most people with normal vision walk down the street, they can easily differentiate the things they must avoid – like trees, curbs and glass doors — from the things they don’t, such as shadows,…
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Indrani Medhi Thies receives SIGCHI 2017 Social Impact Award
Indrani Medhi Thies received the 2017 Social Impact Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, which recognizes individuals who apply human-computer interaction research to pressing social needs. Thies is a researcher…
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Microsoft continues to support data science research with $3M cloud credits to NSF BIGDATA program
This new collaboration builds on previous efforts between Microsoft and NSF, and the Azure platform has added significant functionality and resources in recent years, including massive investments in open source and advanced data and intelligence…
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The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain
Just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence? Facebook created a PR firestorm last summer when reporters discovered a human “editorial team”…
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The AI Spring is Coming
The corporate vice president at Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft’s Asia-Pacific R&D Group, and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia is confident that AI will transform every sector of industry, and even challenge our understanding of…
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Gary J. Sullivan Receives the IEEE Trans. CSVT 2017 Best Paper Award
Gary J. Sullivan received the 2017 IEEE Trans. CSVT Best Paper Award, together with co-authors Thiow Keng Tan, Rajitha Weerakkody, Marta Mrak, Naeem Ramzan, Vittorio Baroncini, and Jens-Rainer Ohm, for their paper “Video Quality Evaluation…
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Simon was awarded Distinguished Fellowship in 2017
The Distinguished Fellowship award is primarily for Simonâs work to advance the development of computer science education in the UK.