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Microsoft AI gets maximum score possible on Ms. Pac-Man
It's official. Humans are now second-best at playing Ms. Pac-Man, a 1980s twist on the arcade classic, involving eating pellets and being chased by ghosts. It was rated as one of the hardest games for an AI to beat, but…
In the news | Parkinson's Life
“Project Emma” tremor-reducing watch unveiled by Microsoft CEO
The team behind an innovative vibrating wristwatch that helped Emma Lawton—who lives with young-onset Parkinson's disease—to draw again, introduced the device at a prestigious tech conference.
In the news | TIME
Robots to Humans: You Lose. We Just Finally Conquered Ms. Pac-Man
A group of tech superheroes — also known as researchers at recent Microsoft acquisition Maluuba — have achieved the seeming impossible, and reached the maximum possible score on classic 1980s Atari game Ms. Pac-Man.
In the news | Business Insider
A Microsoft robot got the highest all-time score in ‘Ms. Pac-Man’
Game over, man. A Microsoft-made artificial-intelligence system has achieved a perfect score of 999,990 points on the Atari 2600 version of the classic "Ms. Pac-Man" — making it very likely the first time anybody, human or robot, has "beaten" the…
In the news | Wired
Microsoft Masters Ms. Pac-Man With a Horde of AI Agents
How defeating a classic 1982 videogame could help Microsoft make better enterprise software.
In the news | Fortune
Microsoft Claims its Artificial Intelligence is a Ms. Pac-Man Whiz
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technology, it turns out, is a whiz at playing Ms. Pac-Man, the 1980’s-era video game. The tech giant’s computers achieved a perfect score of 990,900, surpassing the existing (human held) record of 266,360...
In the news | The Seattle Times
Bereaved father, Microsoft data scientists crunch numbers to combat infant deaths
Spurred by a colleague’s family tragedy, a Microsoft team deployed analysis and data visualization tools and found promising leads in combating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Seattle Children’s Hospital is partnering with Microsoft to further the research.
Awards | ACM SIGecom
Peng Shi earns 2017 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award
The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (opens in new tab) (ACM SIGecom) honored Microsoft post-doctoral researcher Peng Shi with the 2017 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award (opens in new tab) for his dissertation, “Prediction and Optimization in School Choice (opens…
A Joint Model for Question Answering and Question Generation
At the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, one of our primary research focuses is to advance the field of Question Answering. Automatic question-answering systems can provide humans with efficient access to vast amounts of information, and the task also acts as…