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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Characterizing Street-level Accessibility at Scale
Poorly maintained sidewalks pose considerable accessibility challenges for people with mobility impairments. Despite comprehensive civil rights legislation for Americans with disabilities, many city streets and sidewalks in the U.S. remain inaccessible. The problem is not…
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Accelerating Advanced Analytics
Advanced analytics — the analysis of large and complex data using machine learning (ML) — is becoming ubiquitous, with a growing demand for advanced analytics tools in the enterprise domains. However, there exist several challenging…
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Multi-Timescale Collaborative Tracking
Microsoft Research Blog
Opening the world of advanced software technology
By Judith Bishop, Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research In the world of information technology, the word “open” can mean many different things. For me, it refers to how software is both written and used,…
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Future (Present?) of Machine Translation
It is quite easy to believe that the recently proposed approach to machine translation, called neural machine translation, is simply yet another approach to statistical machine translation. This belief may drive research effort toward (incrementally)…
