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Microsoft and partners combine the cloud, AI, research and industry expertise to focus on transforming health care
Healthcare NExT, a new initiative to dramatically transform health care, will deeply integrate greenfield research and health technology product development, as well as establish a new model at Microsoft for strategic health industry partnerships.
In the news | TNW
Microsoft open sources a simulator to crash-test drones, robots and self-driving cars
A team of researchers at Microsoft have built and open sourced a simulation tool to help people train autonomous cars, drones and robots learn how to avoid obstacles just like they would in the real world.
In the news | Microsoft The AI Blog
Microsoft shares open source system for training drones, other gadgets to move safely on their own
When most people with normal vision walk down the street, they can easily differentiate the things they must avoid – like trees, curbs and glass doors — from the things they don’t, such as shadows, reflections and clouds. Chances are,…
AI is getting smarter; Microsoft researchers want to ensure it’s also getting more accurate
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Just a decade ago, the idea of using technology to do things like automatically translate conversations, identify objects in pictures — or even write a sentence describing those pictures — seemed like interesting research projects, but…
Microsoft continues to support data science research with $3M cloud credits to NSF BIGDATA program
By Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science, Microsoft Research The National Science Foundation has launched a new solicitation in 2017 for the advancement of data science research and applications. The solicitation, titled Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and…
Awards | BCS IRSG
Jaime Teevan receives the 2016 Karen Spärck Jones Award from the British Computer Society
Jaime Teevan received the 2016 Karen Spärck Jones award (opens in new tab) from the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) for “technically strong and exceptionally creative contributions to the intersection of information retrieval, user experience and…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft Translator erodes language barrier for in-person conversations
Microsoft Translator is now supporting in-person machine translation technology, developed by the machine translation group at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, also can ease communications for travelers in a foreign country who need to speak with hotel receptionists, taxi drivers…
In the news | VICE/Motherboard
Virtual Reality Makes Avatars More Important Than Ever
Immersing yourself in an alternative universe is VRâs selling point. But how do the avatars that populate these worlds impact our experiences and our behaviour?
Stack of Microsoft researchers earn distinctions from premier computing society
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research Eight computer scientists at Microsoft research labs around the world have been honored as Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The organization also named five Microsoft researchers to…