By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research When Hanna Wallach learned that Jenn Wortman Vaughan also would be attending a major machine learning conference a decade ago, she was happy just to have another woman to share a hotel room…
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Deep learning is all around us. As part of the broad discipline that is machine learning, deep learning increasingly is embedded in our daily lives. Skype Translator is learning how to translate spoken words into…
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Adding to an already lengthy list of accolades, Li Deng, partner research manager in Microsoft's Redmond, Wash. lab, has received the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep…
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The raw storage capacity of DNA is staggering compared with even the most advanced electronic or magnetic storage systems.
Awards | American Mathematical Society
Kristin Lauter was elected to the 2015 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society “for contributions to arithmetic geometry and cryptography as well as service to the community.”
Awards | IEEE
Li Deng received the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep learning and to automatic speech recognition. Read more >
Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins received the 2015 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Paper Award for research that had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across…
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Urban Air, a project developed by Microsoft researchers, is an interactive map that lets users see air quality levels across 72 cities in China.
In the news | The Guardian
The system uses natural language processing, which breaks down a scene into simple language that a human would use (e.g. what is in the left side behind me?).