The 2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit breaks records
Walking into the Microsoft Conference Center this morning, I could feel the excitement in the air as 600 academics and researchers started meeting up for the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington. High on…
Computational Rationality
Eric Horvitz, managing director and distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, and Josh Tenenbaum, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discuss putting a computational lens on scientific theories of rationality, human cognition, and the future…
The intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics
Hear Carnegie Mellon professor Manuela Veloso describe her research on making robots capable of an autonomous cycle of perception, cognition and action, and the journey to understand how algorithms can enable a robot’s sensors to…
Faculty Summit 2015
The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit brings together Microsoft researchers and world leading academics to explore how technological innovation can solve some of the world’s most difficult problems. Rapid advances across all areas of computing are…
On Greedy Maximization of Entropy
Approval Voting and Incentives in Crowdsourcing
Standing the test of time: Microsoft researcher honored for prescient machine learning work
Posted by Allison Linn When Chris J.C. Burges came to Microsoft Research in 2000, he knew he wanted to work on machine learning projects that would have a real impact on users. Burges definitely succeeded:…