In the news | The Economist
The race to teach sign language to computers
Microsoft’s researchers are using crowdsourcing to improve the amount and quality of data available. Danielle Bragg and her colleagues at the firm’s campus in Massachusetts are developing a smartphone version of “Battleship”, a game in which each player tries to…
Driving impact is more than just building great products. It’s about understanding your customers to bring them the best possible experiences. User research provides us with the ability to engage with, learn from, and empathize with our customers. Through user…
User research provides us with the ability to engage with, learn from, and empathize with our customers. Through user research, the Edge team introduced new functionalities in both vertical tabs and tracking prevention. Let’s look at those improvements, and how research informed them.
At Microsoft, we continuously improve products by developing new features for them. To facilitate data-driven decision-making in software development, product teams across Microsoft run tens of thousands of A/B tests each year. While the primary purpose of A/B testing is…
Our group is developing technological solutions for cities because cities are where the majority of humans live and work. Cities are where most people will experience the effects of a changing climate, and where there is the most potential to…
Adapting to remote and hybrid learning has been difficult for many, including school administrators, teachers, parents, and students. In addition to overcoming the basic hurdles of hardware, internet connectivity, and new tools, other more subtle challenges have cropped up over…
The science behind semantic search: How AI from Bing is powering Azure Cognitive Search
| Rangan Majumder, Alec Berntson, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕), Jianfeng Gao, Furu Wei, and Nan Duan
Azure Cognitive Search (opens in new tab) is a cloud search service that gives developers APIs and tools to build rich search experiences over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications. It has multiple components, including an API for indexing and querying, seamless integration through Azure data ingestion, deep…
Awards | ACM
Susan Dumais elected into ACM SIGIR Academy
Susan Dumais was inducted into the first class of the ACM SIGIR Academy in recognition of her significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR). Susan is a leader in IR, and has shaped the…
In the news | Inria blog
Inria: helping to modernise income tax calculations with Mlang
After Etalab helped them to get things off the ground back in 2016, and through close collaboration with the Direction Générale des Finances Publiques (the French public finance department), three researchers, among them Denis Merigoux (from Inria Paris), were given…