Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
Event
The Edge of Artificial Intelligence
The Edge of Artificial Intelligence workshop was part of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2016.
Project
Windflow: Airplanes as Vast Sensor Network
The Windflow project explores the research questions: Could airplanes in flight be employed as a vast sensor network to determine atmospheric conditions? Could data available today be used to infer winds on a large scale…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit opens
By Harold Javid, General Chair, Faculty Summit Microsoft Research’s annual Faculty Summit opened Wednesday with a series of talks about how technological innovation can benefit both business and society. In a fireside chat with Jeannette M. Wing,…
Video
Faculty Summit 2016 – Machine Reading for Science and Society
Machine reading automates knowledge extraction from text. Traditional machine learning methods are hindered by the scarcity of annotated examples, which motivates the development of modern approaches that leverage “free lunches” such as existing ontologies and…
Publication
Nearly-optimal Robust Matrix Completion
Project
Safe Autonomous Flight Everywhere
The goal of this project is to build a generalized vehicle-agnostic system that can provide safety guarantees in the face of an uncertain world. We are defining what “safe” means, and building a theoretical framework…
Video
Faculty Summit 2016 – The Future of Work: Societal Challenges
Some argue that AI will soon take over most human jobs. Yet, despite advances in automation, IoT and on-demand services are fueling novel worlds of work and productivity. The panel brings together a diverse group…
Video
Faculty Summit 2016 – Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Much research is being done today on improving existing systems with intelligence. This session focuses instead on the questions to be addressed when designing systems to create and enable AI. The talks will present different…
