Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais, and Eric Horvitz received the 2017 Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval for their 2005 paper, Personalizing Search via Automated Analysis of Interests and Activities. The research developed a…
Program that repairs programs: how to achieve 78.3 percent precision in automated program repair
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager of Microsoft Research Asia In February 2017, Microsoft and Cambridge University announced a DeepCoder algorithm that produces programs from problem inputs/outputs. DeepCoder, which operates on a novel yet greatly simplified programming language, cannot handle…
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Windows 10 Just Gained Eye Control: Here’s How to Use It
We've seen eye-tracking technology make PC gaming more immersive, and now Microsoft is building it right into Windows itself, so you can navigate and type with just your eyes. Delivered inside of build 16257 of the Windows 10 Insider Preview,…
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From Hack to Product, Microsoft Empowers People with Eye Control for Windows 10
Sometimes, a simple email can lead to a life-changing breakthrough. In 2014, former NFL player Steve Gleason, who has a neuromuscular disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sent an email to Microsoft, challenging employees at the company’s first hackathon. Steve’s…
Creating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
By Satish Sangameswaran, Principal Program Manager, and Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science The newspaper headlines about “Bangalore’s looming water crisis” have been ominous, with one urban planning expert proclaiming that Bangalore will become “unlivable” in a few years because of…
Summer Institute unpacks the future of IoT
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research Within the next 5 to 10 years, tens of billions of things will be connected to the internet. They’ll monitor rainfall in rain forests and engine performance in airplanes, guide robotic teachers around classrooms…
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Creating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
Azure Event Hubs enable such functions as receiving water quality incident alerts from specific locations via a smartphone app.
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Storing Data in DNA Brings Nature into the Digital Universe
Over millennia, nature has evolved an incredible information storage medium—DNA. It evolved to store genetic information, blueprints for building proteins, but DNA can be used for many more purposes than just that.
AI with creative eyes amplifies the artistic sense of everyone
By Gang Hua, Principal Researcher, Research Manager Recent advances in the branch of artificial intelligence (AI) known as machine learning are helping everyone, including artistically challenged people such as myself, transform images and videos into creative and shareable works of…