Video
Eyes First Games – Match Two
Exercise your mind and eyes with match two! Flip cards to reveal images, and match up all the pairs to win the game.
Human-computer interaction
Designing technology that is more intuitive, accessible, and useful across the full range of human experiences.
Video
Eyes First Games – Getting Started
Introduction to the Eyes First Collection of Games, including the system requirements, where to find the games for download and, and how to calibrate the software.
Video
Data Efficient Reinforcement learning for Autonomous Robots with Simulated and Off-policy Data
Learning from interaction with the environment — trying untested actions, observing successes and failures, and tying effects back to causes — is one of the first capabilities thought of when considering intelligent agents. Reinforcement learning…
Microsoft Research Blog
2019 Dissertation Grant recipients embarking on diverse paths to scientific and societal impact
I’m pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grants. Each dissertation grant provides up to $25,000 in funding to doctoral students at North American universities who are underrepresented in the field…
Microsoft Research Blog
Exploring job search trends in Canada with search query data: A collaboration with Bank of Canada
Microsoft Research has teamed up with economists at Bank of Canada to launch an interactive tool for exploring online job search trends in the country. The tool, based on a classification process derived from previous…
Podcast
Making the most of micro-moments with Dr. Shamsi Iqbal
If you’ve recently found it more difficult to focus your attention for a lengthy stretch of time in order to get a complex task done… or worse, found it difficult even to find a lengthy…
Project
Sharing Updatable Models (SUM) on Blockchain
A framework to host and train publicly available machine learning models while crowdsourcing a dataset. Ideally, using a model for prediction is free. An incentive mechanism validates added data.