Standing the test of time: Microsoft researcher honored for prescient machine...
At next week's International Conference on Machine Learning, Chris Burges, a research manager and principal researcher in Microsoft Research’s Machine Learning Intelligence Group, will receive the Test...
View ArticleFaculty Summit 2015: Explore advances in artificial intelligence—and much more
On July 8–9, more than 350 academic researchers and educators will join Microsoft researchers and engineers for the sixteenth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Washington. Key...
View ArticleMicrosoft open sources WorldWide Telescope
We are incredibly pleased to announce that the WorldWide Telescope is now open source under the MIT license and has become an independent project as part of the .NET Foundation.
View ArticleAcademics invited to create new Microsoft HoloLens experiences
Join us in advancing the creation of new holographic computing experiences via the Microsoft HoloLens Academic RFP, which will award US$100,000 and two HoloLens development kits to academic institutions.
View ArticleThe future of artificial intelligence: Myths, realities and aspirations
Two of Microsoft's distinguished scientists, Christopher Bishop and Eric Horvitz, will host a panel of experts at Faculty Summit 2015 to discuss progress in artificial intelligence: myths, realities...
View ArticleMicrosoft and the micro:bit: A million ways to inspire a generation
Later this year the BBC together with Microsoft and other partners will provide every Year 7 student (age 11-12) in the United Kingdom with their own micro:bit personal computing device they can use to...
View ArticleMicrosoft researchers have developed a way to make wearables last longer
Microsoft researchers this week introduced WearDrive, a way to make wearable gadgets such as fitness trackers go much longer between charges. The paper outlining WearDrive was named one of the three...
View ArticleExploring the frontiers of computing
Harold Javid, director of Academic Outreach, Microsoft Research, summarizes the highlights of the first day of Faculty Summit 2015, namely the diversity of the participants representing the full...
View ArticleHow to inkjet-print an electronic circuit
Steve Hodges, head of the sensors and devices group at Microsoft's Cambridge U.K. research lab, wants to make it easy to prototype electronic devices, so he's found a way to print circuits with an...
View ArticleYoung coders compete in 2015 Beauty of Programming
Artificial intelligence was the theme of this year's Beauty of Programming competition, which encourages talented young programmers to use their skills to solve practical problems.
View ArticleThe next evolution of machine learning: Machine teaching
Microsoft researchers are at the forefront of machine teaching: an effort to help people without a machine learning background teach their systems to get better based on experience.
View ArticleCEO Nadella talks Microsoft's mobile ambitions, Windows 10 strategy, HoloLens...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks about his thinking around product differentiation and being ahead of the curve in this Q-and-A with Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley.
View Article2015 Summer School inspires top PhD students
Top PhD students from Europe, the Middle East and Africa gathered for the tenth annual Microsoft Research Cambridge, U.K. PhD Summer School for a mix of scientific talks and demonstrations, training...
View ArticleSora high performance software radio is now open source
Microsoft researchers today announced their high-performance software radio project, Microsoft Research Software Radio (Sora), is now open sourced through GitHub. Sora aims to implement the latest...
View ArticleJennifer Tour Chayes of Microsoft to deliver The John von Neumann Lecture
Jennifer Tour Chayes, a distinguished scientist and managing director of Microsoft's New England and New York City research labs, was named the 2015 John von Neumann Lecturer, tthe Society for...
View ArticleClimate and food resiliency focus of Microsoft and USDA's Innovation Challenge
Microsoft Research is contributing its expertise in machine learning, cloud computing, and environmental science to help the United States Department of Agriculture measure the vulnerability of the...
View ArticleCrowd wisdom among many topics examined at top AI event
Microsoft researchers contributed to 20 papers on AI research at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence spanning multiple disciplines, including machine learning, computational...
View ArticleHackathon project and Microsoft researchers push limits of technology
One year later, the Eye Gaze Wheelchair that captured imaginations and the grand prize at Microsoft’s first company-wide hackathon last summer has made major advances.
View ArticleHere's what inspired top minds in artificial intelligence to get into the field
Microsoft's Chris Bishop, among other renowned researchers, share inspiring stories of what led them to study artificial intelligence.
View ArticleSecuring today's data against tomorrow's quantum computers
Krysta Svore is leading a team of Microsoft researchers in collaboration with chip maker NXP and Queensland University of Technology to develop encryption protocol that secures the Web to resist...
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