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Project Catapult servers available to academic researchers

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Project Catapult clusters are now available to academic researchers through the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin, offering vastly improved performance and energy efficiency of datacenter workloads.

Microsoft Hyperlapse Pro for Mac arrives: Video processing app creates smooth, stable time lapse videos

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Microsoft Hyperlapse Pro for the Mac is now available from the Microsoft online store, giving video aficionados on that platform the ability to create stabilized time lapses from the first-person perspective.

Microsoft open sources Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for more efficient big data research

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Researchers at the Microsoft Asia research lab this week made the Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit openly available to the developer community.

With quantum computing simulator, Microsoft offers a sneak peek into future of computing

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Microsoft researchers focused on quantum computing discuss the implications of a recently released suite of tools that allows computer scientists to simulate a quantum computer's capabilities.

Microsoft releases 'Future Visions' anthology of science fiction inspired by science

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An anthology of original stories by nine award-winning sci-fi authors inspired by the work Microsoft researchers are doing is available to everyone as a free download.

How Triple Handshake, Freak and Logjam discoveries contributed to a broader effort to safeguard the Internet

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Researchers from Microsoft and the French research organization INRIA are making public two sets of code that are part of an extensive Internet security project to create a much more secure method for implementing the Transport Layer Security.

System trains machines to look at images the way people do – and answer questions about them

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A team of Microsoft and CMU researchers developed a system that uses computer vision, deep learning and language understanding to analyze images and answer questions about them the same way humans would.

As pollution in Beijing reaches extreme levels, here's what Microsoft Research is doing to help

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In addition to Project Urban Air, which provides air quality levels across 72 cities in China, researchers have developed a way to help predict pollution levels up to 48 hours in advance.

Microsoft helps out healthcare sector with new data encryption algorithm

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Microsoft has announced a new encryption library that implements the theory of homomorphic encryption, a method that encodes data in such a way it allows developers to work with the encrypted data as if it were in unencrypted form.

Microsoft boffins build better crypto for secure medical data crunching

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Microsoft researchers have published a manual to help scientists and other researchers to use the Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (SEAL), which helps scientists work on genomic data while reducing the risk of data theft.

Speak, hear, talk: The long quest for technology that understands speech as well as a human

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In just a few years some researchers believe improvements in data availability, computing power and machine learning could reach a point where computers can understand the words people are saying about as well as a person would.

Deng receives prestigious IEEE Technical Achievement Award

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Adding to an already lengthy list of accolades, Li Deng has received the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to deep learning and to automatic speech recognition.

From AI and data science to cryptography: Microsoft researchers offer 16 predictions for '16

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A collection of predictions from 16 leaders and leading thinkers within Microsoft's Technology and Research organization on what technological innovations we can expect in the coming year.

Deep learning, machine learning advancements highlight Microsoft's research at NIPS 2015

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A paradigm shift in adaptive data analysis is among the highlights of Microsoft research being presented at NIPS 2015, the premiere conference on machine learning.

Finding a community: Women in Machine Learning workshop celebrates 10th year

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Hanna Wallach and Jenn Wortman Vaughan were graduate students when they co-founded the Women in Machine Learning workshop. Now in its 10th year the workshop has nearly 300 registrants and steadily growing in popularity.

Microsoft Computational Network Toolkit offers most efficient distributed deep learning computational performance

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The Computational Network Toolkit has led to significant improvements in machine learning efficiency and its combination with Azure GPU Lab allows users to build and train deep neural nets for Cortana speech recognition up to 10 times faster than before.

ACM names five Microsoft researchers as Fellows, Distinguished Scientists

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Mary Czerwinski, Cynthia Dwork and Sriram Rajamani have been honored as Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery for their significant contributions to the development and application of computing across multiple disciplines.

Microsoft researchers win ImageNet computer vision challenge

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Microsoft researchers on Thursday announced a major advance in technology designed to identify the objects in a photograph or video, showcasing a system whose accuracy meets and sometimes exceeds human-level performance.

IEEE Fellow Sengupta transformed cloud computing, data storage, network routing

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A principal researcher in Microsoft's research lab in Redmond, Washington, Sudipta Sengupta's collaborations have resulted in such groundbreaking work in networking and data storage and management that he recently was named an IEEE Fellow.

Microsoft-led research team wins Marr prize for outstanding computer vision research

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A team led by a Microsoft researcher has won the prestigious Marr prize in computer vision research for a paper that presents an alternative to what is currently the most popular method of teaching computers to recognize images.
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