Building the talent pipeline: the HKUST joint lab story
The following is the second of three blogs on the contributions of the Microsoft Research Asia Joint Lab Program (JLP), which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. The JLP brings together the resources of Microsoft Research and major Chinese universities, facilitating…
微软研究员在ImageNet计算机视觉识别挑战中实现里程碑式突破
本文翻译自：Microsoft Researchers' Algorithm Sets ImageNet Challenge Milestone (opens in new tab) 一直以来，计算科学家一直在为建立世界上最精确的计算机视觉系统孜孜不倦地努力着，但取得进展的过程却一直如马拉松竞赛般漫长而艰辛。近期，微软亚洲研究院视觉计算组实现的突破让他们成为了这场竞赛的最新领跑者。该团队所开发的基...
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Jade Alglave receives Brian Mercer Award for Innovation
Jade Alglave received the Royal Society's Brian Mercer Award for Innovation for her work on multiprocessor technology, which led to the development of .cat, a standard verification format for hardware chips.
Microsoft Researchers’ Algorithm Sets ImageNet Challenge Milestone
Posted by Richard Eckel The race among computer scientists to build the world’s most accurate computer vision system is more of a marathon than a sprint. The race’s new leader is a team of Microsoft researchers in Beijing, which this…
Computer model of blood development could speed up search for new leukemia drugs
Microsoft researcher Jasmin Fisher credits multidisciplinary approach By Microsoft Research and the University of Cambridge Editor’s note: This press release is reprinted with the permission of the University of Cambridge, and is followed by a Q&A with Dr. Jasmin Fisher,…
Richard Szeliski’s Passion Rewarded with Election to National Academy of Engineering
Posted by George Thomas Jr. Microsoft researcher and Distinguished Scientist Richard Szeliski this week received one of the highest honors accorded to an engineer -- election to the National Academy of Engineering. Szeliski, head of Microsoft Research’s Interactive Visual Media…
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How to inkjet-print an electronic circuit
Steve Hodges, head of the sensors and devices group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, wants to make it easy to prototype electronic devices, so he's found a way to print circuits with an inkjet printer -- a technique that could…
Trill Moves Big Data Faster, by Orders of Magnitude
Posted by George Thomas Jr. In today’s high-productivity computing environments that process dizzying amounts of data each millisecond, a research project named for “a trillion events per day” may seem relatively ordinary. But when you understand that Trill, a new…
Eric Horvitz Receives AAAI Feigenbaum Prize; Shares Reflections On AI Research
Posted by Eric Horvitz Editor's note: Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft Research's Redmond Lab, shares some reflections upon receiving the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize. Horvitz is being recognized by the AAAI for "sustained and high-impact contributions to the field of…