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In the news | Beyond Tomorrow
Beyond Tomorrow – A vision study by Brüel & Kjær
The Beyond Tomorrow Vision Study is published and a symposium has been assembled with industry experts, including Ivan Tashev, discussing the report findings and their perspectives on the future of product development.
Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure improve the efficiency and capacity of cloud-scale optical networks
| Victor Bahl
Today, at HotNets 2017, the Sixteenth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, we shared with you some important research results from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure that show how we can increase the capacity of optical networks without purchasing new…
In the news | The Globe and Mail
Soil sensors, drones and data analytics are the new tools for farmers
Agriculture experts say the majority of farmers are now waking up to the value that technology and data can unlock.
In the news | Digital Journal
Microsoft AI simulator includes autonomous car research
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence simulator has been expanded to include autonomous car research. The company has announced that its AirSim system will be used for testing the safety of vehicle artificial intelligence systems.
In the news | New York Times
Can AI be taught to explain itself?
As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field’s researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know — or how they know it.
Microsoft extends AirSim to include autonomous car research
| Ashish Kapoor and Shital Shah
Earlier this year, we open-sourced a research project called AirSim, a high-fidelity system for testing the safety of artificial intelligence systems. AirSim provides realistic environments, vehicle dynamics and sensing for research into how autonomous vehicles that use AI that can…
Neural fuzzing: applying DNN to software security testing
| William Blum
Microsoft researchers have developed a new method for discovering software security vulnerabilities that uses machine learning and deep neural networks to help the system root out bugs better by learning from past experience. This new research project, called neural fuzzing,…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Bringing AI translation to edge devices with Microsoft Translator
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.
In the news | VRScout
Is Sound the Secret Sauce for Making Immersive Experiences?
To build truly believable virtual environments, we need to believe our ears as much as our eyes.