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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Changing World of Modern Science
Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research Connections, presents the emergence of a Fourth Paradigm of research. The evolution of research has progressed though experimental science, theoretical science, and computational science to present-day data-intensive…
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Mobile Indoor Navigation
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily find a particular store in a crowded shopping mall, or locate an office in an unfamiliar building, using just your cell phone? Feng Zhao, assistant managing director…
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Health Care Decisions in the Information Age
Benjamin Handel of UC Berkley focuses on how individuals interact with the medical care sector to make important decisions. This involves using the information available and the incentives they face. The incentives can be financial…
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Old World, NUI World: The Future of Digital Interaction
Shahram Izadi, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Jamie Shotton and Tom Rodden discuss and demonstrate Natural User Interfaces during the 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge, UK.
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This is Microsoft Research
Rick Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft Research, makes opening remarks at the Microsoft Research Redmond’s 20th anniversary event.
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Pursue the most important problem
Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor Oren Etzioni of the University of Washington reflects on his approach to his research on fundamental challenges of artificial intelligence.
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Six Provocations for Big Data
With big data come big responsibilities, specifically in the realm of social media. There is a hint an emergence of a philosophy that big data is all one needs and that other scientific methods and…
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Kinect Identity: Player recognition in Xbox
Introducing how Kinect performs player identity recognition in Xbox, what we call “Kinect Identity.” A primary challenge in developing a natural user interface for the Kinect is how to seamlessly recognize a player’s identity to…
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Welcome to Microsoft Research Cambridge
Andrew Blake, Microsoft distinguished scientist and managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, welcomes staff and gives an overview of Microsoft Research’s global labs. The mission of those labs are to expand the state of the…
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Predictive Analytics for Traffic
Machine Learning and Intelligence for Sensing, Inferring, and Forecasting Traffic Flows Machine learning and intelligence are being applied in multiple ways to addressing difficult challenges in multiple fields, including transportation, energy, and healthcare. Research scientists…