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In the news | Search Engine Land
Bing says it has been applying BERT since April
Bing has been using BERT to improve the quality of search results since April, Microsoft has stated. The transformer models are now applied to every Bing query globally.
In the news | ZDNet
Here’s how Microsoft is looking to make search smarter and more natural
Microsoft is continuing to evolve its unified Microsoft Search service. The latest pieces it is integrating into Microsoft Search involve its ‘Project Turing’ deep-learning work, as well as advances it is making around semantic meaning and intent. Microsoft Search, for…
ReconViguRation: Reconfiguring Physical Keyboards in Virtual Reality. D. Schneider(1), A. Otte(1), T. Gesslein(1), P. Gagel(1), B. Kuth(1), M. S. Damlakhi(1), O. Dietz(1), E. Ofek, M. Pahud, P. O. Kristensson(3), J. Muller(4) and J. Grubert(1) (1) Cuborg University, (2)…
Hacking the runway with MakeCode with Dr. Thomas Ball and Dr. Teddy Seyed
Computer programming has often been perceived as the exclusive domain of computer scientists and software engineers. But that’s changing, thanks to the work of people like Dr. Thomas Ball, a Partner Researcher in the RiSE group at Microsoft Research, and…
In the news | The Architect's Paper
Jenny Sabin’s installation for Microsoft responds to occupants’ emotions
A large-scale installation powered by AI, Project Ada, responds to occupants’ emotions, and is part of a broader push to embed sensing and artificial intelligence into the built environment.
In the news | GenomeWeb
Jax, Microsoft Team to Mine Medical Literature for Curating Clinical Knowledgebase
The Jackson Laboratory has turned to Microsoft artificial intelligence technology to curate its fast-growing Jax Clinical Knowledgebase (CKB) in hopes of delivering up-to-the-minute clinical insights for the treatment of cancer. The collaboration is also helping to inform research efforts. Specifically,…
In the news | PCMag
Microsoft Highlights Azure Management, Office Improvements, and More at Ignite
Microsoft has the broadest portfolio of software of any company, and at the firm’s annual Ignite conference, it proved it by introducing a raft of new products and services in cloud, development, security and management, and productivity. These include Azure…
Art + Architecture + AI = Ada with Jenny Sabin and Asta Roseway
Jenny Sabin is an architectural designer, a professor, a studio principal and MSR’s current Artist in Residence. Asta Roseway is a principal research designer, a “fusionist” and the co-founder of the Artist in Residence program at Microsoft Research. The two,…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft is poised to add machine-reading results to Microsoft Search
For the past several years, Microsoft researchers have been focused on finding ways to make commercial use of machine-reading technology. It looks like some of that work is about to become commercialized in the form of bringing machine-reading comprehension into…