July 23, 2019 | Ali Emami, Paul Trichelair, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Adam Trischler, Kaheer Suleman, and Hannes Schulz

  AI has made major strides in the last decade, from beating the world champion of Go, to learning how to program, to telling fantastical short stories. However, a basic human trait continues to elude machines: common sense. Common sense…

July 22, 2019 | Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, and Andrey Kolobov

Microsoft researchers are delving beyond the boundaries of information retrieval to optimize how we access and manage information in different areas. Not only are they advancing the realm most synonymous with information retrieval, search engines, but they are also researching…

July 21, 2019 | Paul Bennett, Chenyan Xiong, and Corby Rosset

Have you ever wondered what happens when you ask a search engine to search for something as seemingly simple as “how do you grill salmon”? Have you found yourself entering multiple searches before arriving at a webpage with a satisfying…

July 17, 2019 | Jaime Teevan

Computers are disappearing. This doesn’t mean they’re actually going away, though. In fact, every day more and more of how we live, work, and interact is transformed by computers. But it does mean that technology has become so ubiquitous in…

July 17, 2019

Episode 83, July 17, 2019- Dr. Johannes Gehrke is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and head of Architecture and Machine Learning for the Intelligent Communications and Conversations Cloud in Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices division. But lest you think his lofty position…