In the news | TechRepublic
Microsoft Azure gets new tools for edge computing and machine learning
The new features include tools to automate the process of building a machine learning model, by helping to identify the most efficient algorithms to make a prediction and optimize the performance of the trained model.
Internships Ahoy! with Kirsten Bray, Wei Dai and Sara Beery
Episode 42, September 19, 2018 - On today’s podcast, you’ll hear the stories of three of these interns, each of whom came to Microsoft Research from a different field, with a different story and a different perspective, but all of…
微软人工智能聚焦上海，赋能中国智慧，发力时代创新
2018年9月17日，上海 —— 在以“人工智能赋能新时代”为主题的2018世界人工智能大会上，微软宣布微软亚洲研究院（上海）和微软-仪电人工智能创新院将正式落户上海市徐汇区，把世界一流的人工智能研究能力扩展到上海，探索以创新合作模式推动政府和企业的数字化转型，推进上海新一代人工智能技术和产业的加速发展。同时，微软还将人工智能前沿技术聚力上海，为合作伙伴生态系统开启广阔机遇，礼来、临港集团、金茂集...
Create an outside-in organization
Building an outside-in organization means taking ideas from external channels and using them to orient team members about their customers. Learn about the value of this approach and gain some insight from a user research manager.
In the news | Microsoft Asia News Center
Microsoft establishes Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai and a new AI Innovation Center
Today, Microsoft announced the establishment of Microsoft Research Asia-Shanghai and the Microsoft-INESA AI Innovation Center at the Shanghai Xuhui District, bringing world-class artificial intelligence (AI) research capabilities to the city.
In the news | QE Prize
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Microsoft researchers have been working for more than seven years on Homomorphic Encryption, demonstrating practical applications for cloud privacy and security, and publicly released the SEAL (Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library) in 2015.
People aren't reading like they used to. Instead, they skim and search for keywords and phrases. If you'd like to write better user research reports, like the kind people will actually read, here are five tips every author should know.
Playing to the crowd and other social media mandates with Dr. Nancy Baym
Episode 41, September 12, 2018 - Dr. Nancy Baym shares her insights on a host of topics ranging from the arduous maintenance requirements of social media, to the dialectic tension between connection and privacy, to the funhouse mirror nature of…
Deep Learning Indaba 2018: Strengthening African machine learning
| Tempest van Schaik
At the 30th conference on Neural Information Processing in 2016, one of the world’s foremost gatherings on machine learning, there was not a single accepted paper from a researcher at an African institution. In fact, for the last decade, the…