Microsoft open sources Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for more efficient big data research
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Researchers at the Microsoft Asia research lab this week made the Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit openly available to the developer community. The toolkit, available now on GitHub, is designed for distributed machine learning…
Project Catapult servers available to academic researchers
By Derek Chiou, Partner Architect, Microsoft At this year’s Supercomputing 2015 Conference in Austin, Texas, Microsoft is announcing the availability of Project Catapult clusters to academic researchers through the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at…
Ideas blossom for using Microsoft HoloLens
By Dan Fay, Senior Director, Microsoft Research What would you create with a Microsoft HoloLens? Ask a group of gamers and you’ll likely get some cutting-edge suggestions for virtual reality shootouts, but beyond gaming there are many other ways to use…
Andy Wilson was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Ten-Year Technical Impact Award (opens in new tab) for contributing a seminal paper (TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction) with the largest influence in…
Eric Horvitz was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Sustained Accomplishment Award (opens in new tab) for his long-standing contributions to the field of multimodal interaction, interfaces, and systems, and demonstrated vision in shaping the field, pioneered…
Jaime Teevan and Andrés Monroy-Hernández along with Elena Agapie received the Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2015) Best Paper Award for work on Crowdsourcing in the Field: A Case Study Using Local Crowds for Event Reporting.
Extensive crowdsourcing study reveals surprising results in reversal of platform design assumptions
By John Kaiser, Research News A 21-month study on the dynamics of crowdsourcing shows workers depend on collaborating with each other, upending platform designers’ long-held assumptions of crowdsourcing tasks performed in isolation. “People spend far more time on a task,…
At Microsoft Research Asia, artificial intelligence is informing, and informed by, the human experience
Posted by Allison Linn When most people use automated speech recognition technology today, it's because they have a task that needs to get done: A person to call, directions to get, a quick text to send. In China, millions of…
Interactive art featured at ACM Multimedia 2015
The Interactive Art Program for ACM Multimedia 2015 was curated around the themes of media, installation and interactivity—meaning the works needed to address and incorporate real and digital space (and media) as essential elements to the work and also be…