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In the news | NYMG
Gaming is for Everyone:On Games, Access, and Inclusivity
Melissa Boone and Jerome Hagen, User Researchers on Team XBox, discuss education, access, and building inclusive spaces for gamers of all types.
Research you can (really) use with Dr. Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
Episode 35, August 1, 2018 – Dr. Ravindranath Sivalingam tells us why he is so passionate about what he does, explains how internships can literally change your life, and shares the story of how a hackathon idea turned into a…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Machine Learning for fair decisions
New research focuses on the challenges of machine learning biases, and provides a provably and empirically sound method for turning any common classifier into a ‘fair’ classifier according to any of a wide range of fairness definitions.
In the news | ZDNet
AI and health: Using machine learning to understand the human immune system
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies have partnered on an ambitious immunology project that could see diseases diagnosed much faster.
In the news | Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Microsoft Soundscape: Lighting up the world with sound
A few years ago, when my daughter was only 5, we walked down the street after going to see a play at the Angel Theatre in London, looking for a place to get a bite. Dad and Kiddo, a normal…
In the news | Apple App Store
Mapping the World With Sound
Microsoft Soundscape encourages you to wander. Unlike step-by-step navigation tools, the app never tells you where to go or what to do. In the same way the smell of baking bread might help you discover a nearby café, it offers…
Victor Bahl, distinguished scientist and director of mobile and networking research at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington, received the 2018 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (opens in new tab) for contributions to broadband wireless systems. His contributions include the…
Teaching computers to see with Dr. Gang Hua
Episode 28, June 13, 2018 – Dr. Hua talks about how the latest advances in AI and machine learning are making big improvements on image recognition, video understanding and even the arts. He also explains the distributed ensemble approach to…
In the news | Channel 9
Better Understanding and Addressing Your Players’ Negative Online Gaming Experiences
Melissa Boone, Tracey Fuller, Jerome Hagen of Xbox Research share their learnings about the psychological, situational, and structural reasons behind why bad experiences are underreported.