Bringing AI outside the lab is a formidable challenge, since the real world is full of uncertainty, non-stationarity, and plenty of unknown hidden states. Therefore, training an AI system starting from simulated data mimicking the reality will only provide limited…
In 2020, as the months-long novel coronavirus epidemic rages around the world, researchers worldwide are fighting hard in the hopes of gradually understanding the mystery of the virus through the most advanced technology available. In April, researchers from MSR Asia…
Awards | IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation
Nachi Nagappan and Tom Zimmermann receive Most Influential Award at ICST 2020
Nachi Nagappan and Tom Zimmermann's paper from International Conference on Software Testing (ICST) 2010, "Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: Predicting Security Vulnerabilities for Windows Vista”, was awarded the Most Influential Paper (MIP) award. ICST acknowledges two types of…
Awards | Health Tech Newspaper
Inner Eye wins Best Use of AI at the HTN Awards 2020
HTN would like to say a huge congratulations and thank you to everyone involved.
An A/A test is an A/B test where versions A and B are identical; there is no real change to the product. An A/A test is one of the most powerful tools for testing an A/B testing platform end-to-end. When…
Microsoft Academic users can now explore biomedical publications using Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms in semantic search.
In the news | Engadget
Microsoft explores realistic VR haptics with a wrist-mounted gadget
With recent headsets like the Oculus Quest 2 and Valve Index, VR headsets have never been in a better place from a graphical fidelity standpoint. But as much as the touch controllers that come with those devices have improved as…
Awards | ACM SIGMM
Microsoft researchers noted in inaugural SIGMM Test of Time Paper Awards
The 2002 paper "Distributing Streaming Media Content Using Cooperative Networking," authored by Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Helen J. Wang, Philip A. Chou, and Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, received an Honorable Mention in the inaugural list of SIGMM Test of Time Paper Awards.
A holistic representation toward integrative AI
| Xuedong Huang
At Microsoft, we have been on a quest to advance AI beyond existing techniques, by taking a more holistic, human-centric approach to learning and understanding. As Chief Technology Officer of Azure AI Cognitive Services, I have been working with a…