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Fusing Art & Science
This piece explores projects that intersect between Science and Art. The idea here is that Art is the bridge to our humanity and enables us to connect with the Science on a deeper, more emotional level.
Machine teaching with Dr. Patrice Simard
Episode 78, May 29, 2019- Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables computers to learn by observing the world, recognizing patterns and self-training via experience. Much like humans. But while machines perform well when they can extract knowledge from…
The productive software engineer with Dr. Tom Zimmermann
Episode 77, May 22, 2019- If you’re in software development, Dr. Tom Zimmermann, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, wants you to be more productive, and he’s here to help. How, you might ask? Well, while productivity can…
Awards | European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
Mary Czerwinski amongst the first EAI Fellows
Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager, was awarded the title of EAI (European Alliance for Innovation) Fellow. This is the inaugural year for this award and goes to individuals with extraordinary accomplishments in their respective technical areas, and with…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft pushes ahead with conversation transcription virtual microphone arrays
Microsoft Research’s ‘Project Denmark’ technology allows users to use the microphones in phones and laptops to create a virtual array that can handle conversation transcription and more.
In the news | SlashGear
Microsoft’s Conversation Transcription demo wows as new hardware revealed
Microsoft has figured out real-time conversation transcription, revealing a new Azure-integrated conical reference design speaker along with a way to turn every phone and laptop in a meeting into an ad-hoc voice recognition array.
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Minimizing gaps in information access on social networks while maximizing the spread
How can we spread information to a large number of people on a budget while minimizing the gap in access between the highly connected people in the network and the poorly connected people?
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services adds reinforcement learning for recommendations and doodle recognition AI
Microsoft has released Decision, a suite of decision-making recommendations, automated transcription services, and AI that recognizes and digitizes drawings. The suite will include Personalizer, a reinforcement learning service for recommendations or personalization designed to improve user engagement.
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s TORC will let you feel squeezable objects in AR and VR
Focusing on potential AR and VR applications, Microsoft researchers today announced TORC, short for Touch Rigid Controller, a small, physically solid device that uses haptics to replicate the elasticity of squeezed objects.