Microsoft researchers achieve new conversational speech recognition milestone
| Xuedong Huang
Last year, Microsoft’s speech and dialog research group announced a milestone in reaching human parity on the Switchboard conversational speech recognition task, meaning we had created technology that recognized words in a conversation as well as professional human transcribers. After…
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Changing the security landscape for entrepreneurs
Last year, Microsoft researchers smashed a homomorphic encryption speed barrier. While there is still work to be done, Kristin Lauter, a principal research manager at Microsoft, has said that initial results look very promising and that the technology could be…
In the news | New York Times
Microsoft teaches autonomous gliders to make decisions on the fly
Microsoft is building an autonomous glider guided by artificial intelligence, part of an effort to help machines make decisions when faced with uncertainty.
In the news | CNBC
Microsoft has found an inexpensive way to save lives in India
From hacking agriculture to developing inexpensive tools for tuberculosis patients, Microsoft researchers in India are trying to solve myriad social problems in the subcontinent.
In the news | Artificial intelligence identifies plant species for science
Artificial intelligence identifies plant species for science
Awards | SIGIR 2017
Outstanding Reviewer Award, SIGIR 2017
Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais, and Eric Horvitz received the 2017 Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval for their 2005 paper, Personalizing Search via Automated Analysis of Interests and Activities.…
Program that repairs programs: how to achieve 78.3 percent precision in automated program repair
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager of Microsoft Research Asia In February 2017, Microsoft and Cambridge University announced a DeepCoder algorithm that produces programs from problem inputs/outputs. DeepCoder, which operates on a novel yet greatly simplified programming language, cannot handle…
In the news | Laptop Mag
Windows 10 Just Gained Eye Control: Here’s How to Use It
We've seen eye-tracking technology make PC gaming more immersive, and now Microsoft is building it right into Windows itself, so you can navigate and type with just your eyes. Delivered inside of build 16257 of the Windows 10 Insider Preview,…