Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
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Research in Focus: Transforming Machine Learning and Optimization Through Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is in its infancy, but Microsoft’s Krysta Svore and Nathan Wiebe talk about quantum techniques as applied to AI challenges. Quantum computing can leverage quantum effects, such as entanglement and quantum interference, to…
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Keynote: AI in the Open World
Fielding AI solutions in the open world requires systems to grapple with incompleteness and uncertainty. This session will address several promising areas of research in open world AI, including enhancing robustness via leveraging algorithmic portfolios,…
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Research in Focus: AI for Earth
AI for Earth is a new initiative from Microsoft designed to help the planet be more sustainable. This session, with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa and Nebojsa Jojic, focuses on one early project: a land cover mapping…
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Machine Reading Using Neural Machines
Teaching machines to read, process and comprehend natural language documents and images is a coveted goal in modern AI. We see growing interest in machine reading comprehension (MRC) due to potential industrial applications as well…
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Tech Showcase: DeepFind: Searching within Documents to Answer Natural Language Questions
DeepFindSearching within web documents on mobile devices is difficult and unnatural: ctrl-f searches only for exact matches, and it’s hard to see the search results. DeepFind takes a step toward solving this problem by allowing…
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Tech Showcase: Microsoft Pix
Microsoft Pix helps every photographer take better pictures. Because it incorporates AI behind the lens, it can tweak settings, select the best shots, and enhance them on the fly. It’s designed to help take the…
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Fireside Chat with Harry Shum
Christopher Bishop has a fireside chat with Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research group, discussing Microsoft Research’s advancements in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and security and privacy. They finish…
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Integrative-AI
Over the last decade, algorithmic developments coupled with increased computation and data resources have led to advances in well-defined verticals of AI such as vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and dialog technologies. However, the…
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Tech Showcase: Custom Vision Service
This demo shows how Custom Vision Service can be applied to many AI vision applications. For example, if a client needs to build a custom image classifier, they can submit a few images of objects,…
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Research in Focus: Deep Learning Research and the Future of AI
AI deep learning expert and University of Montreal Professor Yoshua Bengio talks about deep learning—what it is, how it got there, where it’s going, and how you can learn more about it. He discusses the…
