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Urban Air, a project developed by Microsoft researchers, is an interactive map that lets users see air quality levels across 72 cities in China.
In the news | The Guardian
The system uses natural language processing, which breaks down a scene into simple language that a human would use (e.g. what is in the left side behind me?).
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Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them.
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Hon explains how Xiaoice is similar to digital assistants like those we're familiar with in the U.S.: Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Facebook's M, Google Now, and Microsoft's own Cortana.
Nachi Nagappan was selected as a 2015 Association for Computing Machinery's Distinguished Scientist for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.
Ratul Mahajan selected as 2015 Association for Computing Machinery's Distinguished Scientist for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.
In the news | Slashdot
The healthcare sector gets a hand from Microsoft, who will release a new encryption algorithm which will allow developers to handle genomic data in encrypted format, without the need of decryption, and by doing so, minimizing security risks.
In the news | ITNews
Microsoft has released tools that allow bioinformatics researchers to work on genome data sets securely to protect privacy.
In the news | The Register
As genome research - and the genomes themselves - get passed around the scientific community, the world's woken up to the security and privacy risks this can involve. A Microsoft research quintet has therefore published ways to help scientists work…