Microsoft Research News and Highlights

Developed in collaboration with Microsoft's machine learning and system architecture researchers, Smart Lookup for Office 2016 displays Bing search results inside the suite's apps, eliminating the need to switch to a browser to search the Web.

Eric Horvitz and Thomas Dietterich comment on beneficial artificial intelligence contributions on the horizon, including technologies that could save many thousands of lives lost to accidents on roadways and errors made in hospitals.

An innovative tool launched by the University of Sheffield in partnership with Microsoft is helping organizations to reduce the environmental impact of their supply chains.

Microsoft researchers have figured out a way to build software systems spanning many computers that can be proven free of bugs, a significant feat in the decades-long quest to create perfect software.

Microsoft researchers, working with colleagues from academia, have come up with a system that uses multiple kinds of existing batteries, working in tandem with smarter software, to keep laptops and tablets charged much longer than current standards.

New York Times science reporter John Markoff and global head of Microsoft Research Peter Lee discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how robots and AI are already part of everyday life.

Data science education opportunities Microsoft Research offered this past summer for young researchers included problems in applied statistics and machine learning and interaction with Abel Prize, Fields Medal, Nevanlinna, and Turing Award laureates.

Zuzana Kukelova, a post-doc researcher specializing in computer vision at Microsoft's lab in Cambridge, U.K., is the recipient of the ERCIM 2015 Cor Baayen Award, given to a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics.

Microsoft researchers and engineers and city planners from Bellevue, Wash. have a sci-fi inspired strategy for curbing bike and pedestrian injuries on city streets: using video analytics to predict and prevent crashes before they happen.

Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington are collaborating on HyperCam, a lower-cost hyperspectral camera that uses invisible near-infrared light to "see" beneath surfaces and capture unseen details.

Jeannette Wing, corporate vice president overseeing Microsoft's core research labs, explains why fundamental scientific research is key to building and maintaining economic prosperity, global competitiveness and national security.

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss using control theory, robotics, machine learning and path planning, which is aiding their broader artificial intelligence and robotics researh as well as the pilot.

Autocomplete hand-drawn animations, developed in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong and the University of Tokyo, is an interactive system that watches what the artist draws and then predicts what might come next.

Project Oxford's Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) is now in public beta and beta versions of Project Oxford face, computer vision and speech SDKs are now available from GitHub.

Text tags used in the classification of user-generated content can be predictors of the content's popularity, such as TED talks and MOOC lectures, according to new research.

Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft's research lab in Redmond, Wash., sketched out his vision of the future at MIT's EmTech conference, which highlights emerging technologies in computing, biomedicine and other fields.

Hsiao Wuen-Hon of Microsoft Research Asia, joined some of the world's leading computer scientists at the 21st Century Computing Conference to discuss emerging trends in artificial intelligence. Learn more and watch videos of some of the talks.

Microsoft researcher Mike Sinclair collaborated with Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo and Idaho Fish and Game to solve a key problem that prevented scientists from continually monitoring wildlife in remote and sometimes hard to reach areas.

Meet the award recipients of the first Microsoft HoloLens academic research grants.

The Microsoft Project Oxford team today announced plans to release public beta versions of new tools that help developers create machine learning-based apps that can identify sounds, words, images and even recognize emotion.

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