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Microsoft’s Project Catapult wins GeekWire’s ‘Innovation of the Year’ award
Project Catapult, a longtime research initiative on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), received the ‘Innovation of the year’ award during the ceremony held at the Museum of Pop Culture.
CHI Part 1: Interacting through touch, virtually and physically
A preview of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems By Justin Cranshaw, Researcher, Microsoft Research Human-computer interaction (HCI) research at Microsoft provides a human-centered perspective on the future of computing, reshaping the roles computers play in…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft is teaching systems to read, answer and even ask questions
Microsoft researchers have already created technology that can do two difficult tasks about as well as a person: identify images and recognize words in a conversation. Now, the company’s leading AI experts are working on systems that can do something…
Deep Learning for Program Synthesis
By Rishabh Singh, Jacob Devlin, Abdelrahman Mohamed, and Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Despite the many advances in computing over the past decades, the actual process of writing computer software has not fundamentally changed — a programmer must manually code the exact algorithmic logic…
In the news | Art Mag
Tent Gallery: The Oregon Project
The result of a collaboration between the artist, Keith Salmon, and Microsoftâs experimental technology centre, The Oregon Project is a new stage in creating truly accessible art.
In the news | The Globe and Mail
Microsoft buys into Canada’s AI research with purchase of Maluuba
Microsoft Corp. is buying into Canada’s artificial intelligence research community with a deal to purchase Maluuba, a deep-learning and AI-technology startup based in Waterloo, Ont., and Montreal.
In the news | Association for Women in Science
Behind the Bias Panel
Xbox researcher Jessie Thomas participates in a panel discussion at the Univeristy of Notre Dame on unconscious assumptions that influence judgment and perception of others, and how to deal with them in an assertive, effective, and professional manner.
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft ‘Project Sopris’ takes aim at securing low-cost IoT devices
A new Microsoft Research team, Project Sopris, is looking to redesign microcontrollers in the name of making low-cost IoT devices more secure.
In the news | MSPowerUser
Microsoft Research’s Project Sopris is exploring ways to secure low cost IoT devices
The Project Sopris team has tested different approaches to device security from silicon to software and have found optimal device security must be rooted in hardware but kept up-to-date through evolving software.