Awards | British Computer Society
Simon Peyton Jones honored with the 2017 Distinguished Fellowship Award
The British Computer Society honored Simon Peyton Jones with the Distinguished Fellowship (opens in new tab) award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of computing. Peyton Jones has played a leading role since 1987 in the definition of Haskell (opens in new tab),…
In the news | The Wall Street Journal
Grasping Giant Numbers Is Far From Second Nature
Microsoft researchers have developed templates that use ratios, ranks, and unit changes to make large numbers easier to understand; a method that helps inform Bing search results.
Awards | UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science
A. J. Brush receives 2017 Alumni Achievement Award
A. J. Brush received the 2017 Alumni Achievement Award (opens in new tab) from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Brush is a human-computer interaction researcher with a love for building experimental platforms…
Awards | HIV Vaccine Trials Network
Jonathan Carlson receives inaugural Bonnie Mathieson Young Investigator Award
The HIV Vaccine Trials Network (opens in new tab) honored Jonathan Carlson with an inaugural Bonnie Mathieson Young Investigator Award for his leading role in research that leveraged machine learning and the trials network’s data to show how HIV variants that are pre-adapted…
From cancer to crop genomics — using Research as a Service at the intersection of computers and biology
By Kenji Takeda, Director, Azure for Research, AI and Research Ever since Nicola Bonzanni was a little boy playing in the tiny Italian village of Bonate Sotto, just north of Milan, he was fascinated by nature and by building things.…
Teaching AI to make decisions and communicate
The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ may have been coined way back in the 1950s, but we have yet to see the types of machines described in books and films. In our daily lives and workplaces, we aspire to having machines that…
In the news | Microsoft News
How a watch helped Emma write again
Haiyan Zhang has created a life-changing device for a woman with Parkinson's disease.
In the news | The AI Blog
With Project Torino, Microsoft creates a physical programming language inclusive of visually impaired children
A team of Microsoft researchers and designers in the company's Cambridge, UK, lab has created what they are calling a physical programming language—a way for kids to physically create code by connecting pods together to build programs.
The next challenges for reinforcement learning
Recent years have seen great progress for AI. In particular, artificial agents have learned to classify images and recognize speech at near-human level. However, for artificial agents to reach their full potential, they should not only observe, but also act…