Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
How would you leverage technology capable of generating natural language image descriptions that are, in many cases, just as good or better than what a human could produce? What if that capability is just one…
Microsoft researchers have built an artificial intelligence system that can generate captions for images that are, in many cases, more accurate than the descriptions people write. The breakthrough in a benchmark challenge is a milestone…
Microsoft has developed a new image-captioning algorithm that exceeds human accuracy in certain limited tests. The AI system has been used to update the company’s assistant app for the visually impaired, Seeing AI, and will…
Microsoft today launched a new computer vision service it claims can generate image captions that are, in some cases, more accurate than human-written descriptions. The company calls the service, which is available as part of…
AI-based tools like computer vision and voice interfaces have the potential to be life-changing for people with disabilities, but the truth is those AI models are usually built with very little data sourced from those…
Saqib Shaikh says people who are blind, like himself, typically develop highly organized routines to keep track of their things — putting keys, wallets, canes and other essentials in the same places each time. But…
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Team Gleason is excited to announce Project Insight, the creation of an open dataset of facial imagery of people living with ALS, to help advance innovation in computer…
Cecily Morrison (opens in new tab), a principal researcher at Microsoft’s Research Lab in Cambridge, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The 39-year-old, who is currently working on a project that uses technology to help…
Growing up in Newton, Kansas our local newspaper, The Kansan, was the lifeblood of our community. At 3:30 p.m. every afternoon it landed on porches and lawns across the town, and we saw our local…
Mary L. Gray, Senior Researcher, Anthropologist and Media Scholar, was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, with 20 others in 2020. Mary is investigating the ways in which labor, identity, and human rights are transformed by…
