In the news | Development Seed Blog
Introducing PEARL — AI Accelerated Land Cover Mapping Platform
Development Seed and Microsoft AI for Earth are launching PEARL, an AI-accelerated platform for fast land cover mapping, for experimental use. PEARL represents a new approach to combining human intelligence and scalable AI for fast, accurate land cover mapping. It…
CHI 2021: Making remote and hybrid meetings work in the new future of work
| Jaime Teevan
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, some truths about the nature of work have been underscored: it is uniquely complex, quickly shifting, and increasingly technology-mediated. Teaching, medicine, mental health, and other professions—previously thought to be near-impossible to do remotely—have…
学术新星畅谈计算机视觉科研之路：视觉研究已经成熟，跨学科方法成为趋势
4月22日，微软亚洲研究院创研论坛 CVPR 2021 论文分享会在线上举行。来自国内外计算机视觉领域的21位优秀代表与观众零距离交流，分享了他们在 CVPR 2021 发表的最新研究成果。 本次论文分享会的开幕由北京邮电大学教授、中国计算机学会计算机视觉专委会秘书长马占宇主持，他首先回顾了近四年 CVPR 论文分享会的举办盛况与形式变化。随后，北京大学教授、中国计算机学会计算机视觉专委会主任查红...
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Azure Health Bot adds eight new regions with additional language support, including India to support pandemic response
Azure Health Bot empowers developers in healthcare organizations to build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, compliant, conversational healthcare experiences at scale. It combines built-in medical intelligence with natural language capabilities to understand clinical terminology and can be easily customized to support…
In the news | CNBC
Pandemic Playbook: Predict. Prevent. Prepare.
Two leading visionaries in the fields of medicine and Artificial Intelligence for health – Mayo Clinic Platform President Dr. John Halamka and Microsoft Research and Incubations Corporate VP Peter Lee – explain how collaboration and data science can advance the…
Hands-on research and prototyping for haptics
While many of us think of human-computer interaction as a job for the eyes, ears and mind, we don’t think as often about the importance and complexity of our tactile interactions with computers. Haptics – the sense of touch or…
Microsoft Research collaborates with KAIST in Korea to explore bimanual interactions with haptic feedback in virtual reality
| Michel Pahud, Mike Sinclair, and Andrea Bianchi
Editor's Note: Bimanual controllers are frequently used to enhance the realism and immersion of virtual reality experiences such as games and simulations. Researchers have typically relied on mechanical linkages between the controllers to recreate the sensation of holding different objects…
Awards | The Royal Society
Abi Sellen elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Abigail Sellen is elected as one of the most highly cited and influential scientists in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Her career has spanned both academia and industrial research with many of the world's leading technology companies, and her seminal…
We are all familiar with terabytes and petabytes. But have you heard about zettabytes (1000 petabytes)[1]? Worldwide data volume is expected to hit 163 zettabytes by 2025, 10 times the data in 2017. Your product will contribute to the surge,…