Machine teaching with Dr. Patrice Simard
Episode 78, May 29, 2019- Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables computers to learn by observing the world, recognizing patterns and self-training via experience. Much like humans. But while machines perform well when they can extract knowledge from…
Swimming in creative waters: A young artist, an inventor, and a nurturing sea of family and colleagues
Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research Eric Horvitz was completely floored as he spun around and spied the stunning sculpture that had silently been wheeled in behind him. The evening’s gathering had been arranged to celebrate a special birthday.…
In the news | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Cloud to accelerate scientific discoveries through access to real-time clinical genome sequencing data
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital today announced clinical genome sequencing data will be available in real-time on St. Jude Cloud, the world’s largest public repository of pediatric genomics data. The first-of-its-kind initiative will provide researchers with high-quality whole-genome, exome and…
Awards | International Communications Association (ICA)
Nancy Baym awarded 2019 Frederick Williams Prize
Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research was awarded the 2019 Frederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study of Communication Technology. The award recognizes the major contributions and cumulative achievements of senior scholars who have advanced the study and…
微软亚洲研究院（上海）和微软-仪电人工智能创新院在沪揭牌
2019年5月24日，上海——今天，微软亚洲研究院（上海）和微软-仪电人工智能创新院在上海正式揭牌。上海市副市长吴清、市政府副秘书长陈鸣波、市经济信息化委主任吴金城、市经济信息化委总工程师张英、徐汇区区长方世忠、上海仪电集团董事长吴建雄、上海仪电集团总裁蔡小庆、微软全球执行副总裁、微软人工智能及研究事业部负责人沈向洋、微软全球资深副总裁、微软亚太研发集团主席兼微软亚洲研究院院长洪小文，以及上海人工...
铸星闪耀 | 黄群：从中科院计算所到 MSRA，三个月访问投出一篇论文
微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”旨在发掘和助力新一代青年学者，使其成为科研创新能力突出、走在世界科技前沿的学术带头人。于青年学者而言，这绝不是一场简单的访问：通过与顶尖研究员的亲密合作，学者们可以解决困扰许久的疑惑；依托最新、最丰富的数据集和强大的硬件资源，学者们能大大推进所做的科研项目；产业界独有的实际应用场景，也能帮助学者们解决研究落地过程中最真实的问题。 年轻、开拓、探索，是铸星计划的关键词；合作...
The productive software engineer with Dr. Tom Zimmermann
Episode 77, May 22, 2019- If you’re in software development, Dr. Tom Zimmermann, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, wants you to be more productive, and he’s here to help. How, you might ask? Well, while productivity can…
In the news | Microsoft Asia News Center
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) leads in 2019 WMT international machine translation competition
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has achieved eight top places in the recent machine translation challenge organized by the 2019 fourth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19), out of the eleven tasks it undertook. Overall, there are nineteen machine translation categories in…