Training deep control policies for the real world
| Rogerio Bonatti, Ratnesh Madaan, Vibhav Vineet, Sebastian Scherer, and Ashish Kapoor
Humans subconsciously use perception-action loops to do just about everything, from walking down a crowded sidewalk to scoring a goal in a community soccer league. Perception-action loops—using sensory input to decide on appropriate action in a continuous real time loop…
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Microsoft and Google join forces on Covid-19 dataset
Microsoft Research and Google Cloud have joined forces as part of an initiative to open up datasets that help researchers combat the Covid-19 novel coronavirus.
Given the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to provide an overview of the services that we provide, explain the focus of each and provide working examples on how to best use our data and to help generate…
Awards | Measuring System Visual Latency through Cognitive Latency on Video See-Through AR devices
IEEE VR 2020 Honorable Mention paper (Top 5 papers)
R. Gruen (MSR), E. Ofek (MSR), A. Steed (UCL), R. Gal (MSR), M. Sinclair (MSR) and M. Gonzalez Franco (MSR) Measuring System Visual Latency through Cognitive Latency on Video See-Through AR devices. IEEE VR Mar 2020
For more than a quarter century, we have lived a life where our online activities are closely monitored, collected, and exploited by internet giants to offer useful services without charging fees. Today, it is unfathomable to have to pay for…
Awards | IEEE
Ranveer Chandra elevated to IEEE Fellow class of 2020
Ranveer Chandra, Partner Chief Scientist, was elevated to the distinguished roster of IEEE Fellow as part of the 2020 class for his contributions to software-defined wireless networking technologies. Read more >
Engineering research to life with Gavin Jancke
If you want an inside look at how a research idea goes from project to prototype to product, you should hang out with Gavin Jancke for a while. He’s the General Manager of Engineering for MSR Redmond where he created…
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Microsoft unifies research groups as it appoints a science chief
Microsoft is switching the leadership of its research wing after senior executive Harry Shum left the company last month. The change signals Microsoft’s interest in longer-term research efforts. In addition to unifying parts of Microsoft Research under one person, the company…
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Peter Lee becomes the head of Microsoft Research
Microsoft today announced leadership changes for Microsoft Research. Peter Lee will be the new leader for the Microsoft Research organization. Peter Lee was already leading several research teams that were developing technology in healthcare and life sciences. In his new…