Deep InfoMax: Learning good representations through mutual information maximization
| Devon Hjelm, Philip Bachman, and Adam Trischler
As researchers continue to apply machine learning to more complex real-world problems, they’ll need to rely less on algorithms that require annotation. This is not only because labels are expensive, but also because supervised learners trained only to predict annotations…
CHI squared with Dr. Ken Hinckley and Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
Episode 74, May 1, 2019 - If you want to know what’s going on in the world of human computer interaction research, or what’s new at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, you should hang out with…
In the news | 425 Business
Microsoft, Seattle Children’s Team Up for AI-Powered SIDS Research
Microsoft believes artificial intelligence, or AI, can be a force for good in the world. To prove the point, last September the company started its AI for Humanitarian Action initiative — a $40 million, five-year program to use AI to…
Investing in leading minds—Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
| Sandy Blyth
How does a leading research institution ensure the flow of computer science talent and keep the most talented minds in the space focused on solving today’s truly challenging problems? The Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship recognizes innovative, promising new faculty members…
Toward Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence
| Daniel McDuff and Ashish Kapoor
Recent successes in machine intelligence hinge on core computation ability to efficiently search through billions of possibilities in order to make decisions. Sequences of decisions, if successful, often suggest that perhaps computation is catching up to–or even surpassing–human intelligence. Human…
Awards | National Academy of Sciences
Jennifer Chayes elected to National Academy of Sciences
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research Emeritus, was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in computer science. Read more >
In the news | Quartz at Work
If you have a hard time saying “no” to meetings, let software do it for you
I probably have a number of bad time-management habits, but I’m painfully aware of only one: a glaring tendency to overcommit to events and meetings, even ones I suspect won’t be that fruitful…
How to better design AI – from ideation to user perception and acceptance
| Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Saleema Amershi, Justin Cranshaw, and Shamsi Iqbal
Designing artificial intelligence systems and features poses new challenges for user experience (UX) practitioners. Traditionally, UX designers rely on sketching and low-fidelity, fast prototyping to imagine and test their ideas. The usual design tools and techniques, however, can’t always meet…
In this blog post we will cover the additions and improvements made to your signed-in experiences on Microsoft Academic. Microsoft Academic can help you build a public profile, track your publications, and present you with new research in your areas…