Presenting the winners of the Project Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge
By Noburu Kuno, Senior Research Program Manager; Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Principal Research Program Manager As we move from narrow AI to more general AI, it will be important to instill machines with the ability to work together with both other agents…
In the news | Microsoft Story Labs
Securing the Cloud
At any point in time on any day of the week, Microsoft’s cloud computing operations are under attack: The company detects a whopping 1.5 million attempts a day to compromise its systems. Microsoft isn’t just fending off those attacks. It’s…
In the news | Bellevue Reporter
Bellevue premieres national program to reduce traffic deaths
After months of collaboration with Microsoft and the University of Washington, the city of Bellevue premiered its crowd-sourced video analytics project Thursday morning in the hopes of making the streets safe for everybody.
In the news | Washington State DOT
Help researchers train computers to recognize road users, prevent collisions
What if we could use technology to predict where vehicle collisions involving people who walk or bike will occur, then take steps to prevent them? Would you want to help? Well, now you can.
In the news | KIRO 7
Volunteers needed to improve traffic safety using high-tech
The city of Bellevue is asking for the public's help to make streets safer using new technology. Bellevue is working with Microsoft and the University of Washington on a cutting-edge effort to help prevent traffic deaths and serious injuries from…
In the news | Mobility Lab
Vision Zero video tool analyzes intersections for dangerous traffic conflicts
Volunteers will “teach” the program to better identify people walking and biking. Despite signing onto Vision Zero, a campaign that aims to eliminate traffic-related deaths and serious injuries, Washington, D.C. and other large cities have struggled to make progress in…
In the news | GeekWire
Human and computer vision unite to help Microsoft engineers stop traffic deaths
The plan is to generate data about crashes and use it to improve roadways and prevent collisions between cars, trucks, bikes and pedestrians.
Awards | ACM SIGIR
Susan Dumais and colleagues receive SIGIR Test of Time Award for 1988 paper
Susan Dumais and colleagues received the Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) for their 1988 paper, Information Retrieval Using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure. The paper describes a method for…
Awards | Brandeis University
Leslie Lamport receives honorary degree from Brandeis University
Leslie Lamport received an honorary degree from Brandeis University, where he earned both his master’s (’63) and PhD (’72) in mathematics. Lamport’s pioneering work in principled distributed computing includes the development of protocols that allow computer systems to cooperate, avoid errors and…