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As more and more of us ask the virtual personal assistants that live on our phones what the weather will be tomorrow or the height of the Chrysler Building (1,046 feet), it’s clear that the voice-activated software is currently only…
新闻报道 | TechCrunch
Changing the security landscape for entrepreneurs
Last year, Microsoft researchers smashed a homomorphic encryption speed barrier. While there is still work to be done, Kristin Lauter, a principal research manager at Microsoft, has said that initial results look very promising and that the technology could be…
新闻报道 | New York Times
Microsoft teaches autonomous gliders to make decisions on the fly
Microsoft is building an autonomous glider guided by artificial intelligence, part of an effort to help machines make decisions when faced with uncertainty.
Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais, and Eric Horvitz received the 2017 Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) 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.…
新闻报道 | Microsoft Accessibility Blog
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…
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…
新闻报道 | Scientifc American
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.
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…
By Xiaodong He, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research For human beings, reading comprehension is a basic task, performed daily. As early as in elementary school, we can read an article, and answer questions about its key ideas and details. But for…