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Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of Royal Society
Chris Bishop, a world-renowned expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (opens in new tab), the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. The Royal Society (opens in new tab) was founded in the 1660s to…
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Simon Peyton Jones honored with the 2017 Distinguished Fellowship Award
The British Computer Society honored Simon Peyton Jones with the Distinguished Fellowship (opens in new tab) award for outstanding contributions to the advancement of computing. Peyton Jones has played a leading role since 1987 in the definition of Haskell (opens in new tab),…
From cancer to crop genomics — using Research as a Service at the intersection of computers and biology
By Kenji Takeda, Director, Azure for Research, AI and Research Ever since Nicola Bonzanni was a little boy playing in the tiny Italian village of Bonate Sotto, just north of Milan, he was fascinated by nature and by building things.…
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How a watch helped Emma write again
Haiyan Zhang has created a life-changing device for a woman with Parkinson’s disease.
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With Project Torino, Microsoft creates a physical programming language inclusive of visually impaired children
A team of Microsoft researchers and designers in the company’s Cambridge, UK, lab has created what they are calling a physical programming language—a way for kids to physically create code by connecting pods together to build programs.
Microsoft challenge: Build a collaborative AI in Minecraft
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research A Microsoft Research team has created a competition using Project Malmo, a platform that uses Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research. The team is challenging PhD students to develop an…
Democratizing AI to improve citizen health
By Kenji Takeda, Director, Azure for Research Doctors make life-saving — and life-changing — decisions every day. But how do they know that they are making the best decisions? Can artificial intelligence (AI) help? “Before evidence-based medicine, decision-making in health…
From improving a golf swing to reducing energy in datacenters
2017 Swiss Joint Research Center kick off By Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Senior Research Program Manager Recently, we celebrated an important milestone for our Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC). We welcomed top researchers from all partners to a workshop at the…
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From improving a golf swing to reducing energy in datacenters
With this workshop, the Swiss JRC kicked off 10 projects, four between ETH Zurich and Microsoft and six between EPFL and Microsoft. These projects were chosen from 20 proposals assessed by the Swiss JRC steering committee for their intellectual merit,…