Microsoft Research Lab – Redmond

October 27, 2017

An AI-dedicated processor available on the Huawei Mate 10, even in the absence of internet access, enables the system to produce translations whose quality is on par with the online system.

October 24, 2017

To build truly believable virtual environments, we need to believe our ears as much as our eyes.

October 19, 2017

Microsoft is delivering the world’s first fully neural on device translations in the Microsoft Translator app for Android, customized for the Huawei Mate 10 series.

September 13, 2017

John Krumm received a 10-Year Impact Award for his 2007 paper, Inference Attacks on Location Tracks, at the 2017 ACM Ubicomp Conference (opens in new tab), a gathering of experts in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. The paper exposed real-world privacy vulnerabilities associated…

September 11, 2017

As a first step, Microsoft wants to teach machines to read so that they understand the text, because most of the medical knowledge lies in texts: endless information on biological processes, therapeutic mechanisms and clinical studies is buried on billions…

August 23, 2017

What started in 2014 as an experiment to engage employees has turned into a strategic tradition to help Microsoft establish itself at the leading edge of innovation. And this year, the hottest player at the Microsoft Hackathon was artificial intelligence.

August 23, 2017

Kristin Lauter, head of cryptography research at Microsoft, leads research that encodes data in such a way that scientists don’t lose the flexibility to perform medically useful genetic tests.