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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.…
In the news | 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…
Summer Institute unpacks the future of IoT
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…
In the news | 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.
AI with creative eyes amplifies the artistic sense of everyone
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…
Transfer learning for machine reading comprehension
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…
Faculty Summit ’17 sessions available on-demand
By Roy Zimmermann, Director, Microsoft Research The theme of this year’s Faculty Summit 2017, which occurred earlier this week, was The Edge of AI. The meeting on Microsoft’s sun-splashed Redmond campus involved more than 500 prominent AI academic and Microsoft researchers…
Faculty Summit 2017 focuses on technical breakthroughs and societal influences
By Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Managing Director, Microsoft We’re at an inflection point for AI technologies. Rising capabilities and possibilities have been catalyzed by jumps in the availability of data and computational power. Increasing competencies in such areas as…