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For the next several months he is artist-in-residence at Microsoft Research, a prestigious think tank for software engineers.
Posted by Rob Knies On September 4, Junichi Tsujii, Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research's Beijing lab, received the Funai Achievement Award at the Forum on Information Technology (FIT), for his pioneering work on Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation and Text…
Microsoft Research’s various summer schools provide excellent opportunities to work with our academic partners to foster the next generation of computer scientists and breakthrough applications. So with great anticipation, I headed to Moscow for the 2014 summer school in Russia,…
Posted by Rob Knies Search, categorization, accessibility—these are what customers gain from the Microsoft Azure Media Services Indexer, launched Sept. 10. The Indexer, formerly known as the Microsoft Audio Video Indexing Service (MAVIS), is being announced right before IBC2014, being…
Big data: it’s the hot topic these days, promising breakthroughs in just about every field, from medicine to marketing to machine learning and more. But for many of us, the problems of managing big data hit home when we confront…
The following blog is from guest contributor Paul Greenfield of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. He and his colleagues have developed a new correction tool to address the problem of DNA sequencing errors in biological and ecological research, and they…
Summer Bridge students and their hosts at Microsoft Experts agree that the next wave of innovation in computing requires diversity in the research and development teams who will create it. I believe that means expanding the pipeline of students entering…
Posted by Rob Knies This year’s Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2014) is themed “data science for social good.” That focus for the 20th KDD meeting moved Eric Horvitz (@erichorvitz) to accept an invitation to deliver a…
About 10 months ago, China’s first planetarium driven by the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) was launched at the Shixinlu primary school. Powered by six high-resolution projectors, the 8-meter dome installation has enabled students not only to see and study the stars…