In the news | Forbes
4 Super Simple Ways You Can Proactively Reduce Stress
In honor of April Awareness Month, I spoke to Margaret Price and Mary Czerwinski, two behavioral researchers from Microsoft, on proactive ways of dealing with stress. Price researches human behavior through our relationship with technology, and Czerwinski studies emotions and…
Advancing accessibility on the web, in virtual reality, and in the classroom
| Meredith Ringel Morris
At the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems conference in Glasgow, Scotland this May, researchers from Microsoft’s Redmond and UK labs, together with our university collaborators, will be presenting several papers and demos that explore how to…
In the news | The Register
Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript
Microsoft Research has introduced a new open source programming language called Bosque that aspires to be simple and easy to understand by embracing algebraic operations and shunning techniques that create complexity. Bosque was inspired by the syntax and types of…
Prototype tablet tricked out with sensors just proves Mom was always right: Posture is important!
| Ken Hinckley
The mobility of tablets affords interaction from a wide diversity of postures: Hunched over a desk with brow furrowed in concentration. On the go with the tablet gripped in one hand, while operating it with the other. Or kicked back…
AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
Episode 72, April 17, 2019 - We hear a lot these days about “AI for good” and the efforts of many companies to harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve some of our biggest environmental challenges. It’s rare, however,…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
AI for Earth is a multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative to deploy the full scale of Microsoftâs products, policies and partnerships across four key areas of agriculture, water, biodiversity and climate, and transform the way society monitors, models, and ultimately manages…
计算机图形学必读的10本书
计算机图形学诞生于二十世纪六十年代，主要的研究内容是研究如何使用数学算法在计算机中有效地表达、生成、处理以及显示相关图像和图形。作为一门计算机应用科学，计算机图形学近年来的快速发展极大地促进了计算机辅助设计、虚拟现实、游戏、动画、影视特效等行业的发展。 为了帮助同学们更好地学习计算机图形学，我们邀请微软亚洲研究院网络图形组研究员董悦为大家推荐了该领域相关的经典书籍，内容涵盖图形学基础原理、渲染基础...
Less pain, more gain: A simple method for VAE training with less of that KL-vanishing agony
| Chunyuan Li
There is a growing interest in exploring the use of variational auto-encoders (VAE), a deep latent variable model, for text generation. Compared to the standard RNN-based language model that generates sentences one word at a time without the explicit guidance…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
We’re increasing our carbon fee as we double down on sustainability
Since 2009, Microsoft has made and met a series of commitments to reduce the company’s carbon footprint. While we’ve made progress toward our goal of cutting our operational carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030, the magnitude and speed of…