From improving a golf swing to reducing energy in datacenters
2017 Swiss Joint Research Center kick off By Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Senior Research Program Manager Recently, we celebrated an important milestone for our Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC). We welcomed top researchers from all partners to a workshop at the…
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From improving a golf swing to reducing energy in datacenters
With this workshop, the Swiss JRC kicked off 10 projects, four between ETH Zurich and Microsoft and six between EPFL and Microsoft. These projects were chosen from 20 proposals assessed by the Swiss JRC steering committee for their intellectual merit,…
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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.
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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 world.
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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, reflections and clouds. Chances are,…
Partnership yields key breakthroughs in VR’s “grand challenge”
By Noboru Sean Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The potential for virtual reality (VR) to upend industrial design, medicine, and other specialized fields has now vaulted the emerging field into the ranks of what the National Academy of…
AI is getting smarter; Microsoft researchers want to ensure it’s also getting more accurate
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Just a decade ago, the idea of using technology to do things like automatically translate conversations, identify objects in pictures — or even write a sentence describing those pictures — seemed like interesting research projects, but…
Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers
By Jim Pinkelman, Senior Director, Microsoft Research Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are designed to help promising young…