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Microsoft Research and MIT unveil DuoSkin, the latest in smart tattoos
Smart tattoos made out of super-thin electronics have been a thing for years, but now the technology is getting closer to fashionable prime time.
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He’s Brilliant, She’s Lovely: Teaching Computers To Be Less Sexist
Computer programs often reflect the biases of their very human creators, but Microsoft researcher Adam Kalai's latest project â a joint effort with Boston University â has focused on a solution called word embedding.
Long-term collaboration takes aim at mobile browsing
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia As mobile browsing continues to consume an ever larger share of Internet services, the stakes of improving the mobile user experience have never been greater. That’s one of the reasons that…
PhD Summer School brings top students to Cambridge
By Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Senior Research Program Manager Pivoting from the Old World charm of High Tea to contemplating a dystopian AI-dominated future was among the many experiences facing more than 80 doctoral students at the PhD Summer School, held July 4–8…
Microsoft researchers enable secure data exchange in the cloud
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research In the future, machine learning algorithms may examine our genomes to determine our susceptibility to maladies such as heart disease and cancer. Between now and then, computer scientists need to train the algorithms on…
Microsoft NLP researchers converge at ACL 2016, edging ever closer to human-like conversational experiences
By Bill Dolan, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research This year, the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will be held in Berlin, Germany, August 7-12, 2016, at Humboldt University. ACL is the premier conference on natural language processing…
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Mary Czerwinski on managing people, managing stress, and the work to do good work
Mary shares some great experiences about her role as a manager and how she plays this out practically in enabling and protecting people, and establishing a culture in a group. She also talks about some of the key insights…
Our open source commitment: The proof is in the projects
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager & Winnie Cui, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Openness allows innovation to evolve in unforeseen, novel and exciting ways, and sometimes even provides solutions that no one ever imagined were possible. Getting…
Researchers team up with Chinese botanists on machine learning, flower-recognition project
By Guobin Wu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Has this ever happened to you? You’re out walking with your daughter. She finds a beautiful flower, quizzes you on it, but you’re stumped — you have no idea what…