Get started with Smart Lookup, Office 2016's handy Bing-powered research tool
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...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence is raising concerns, and here's what researchers are...
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...
View ArticleHelping global organizations reduce environmental impact of their supply chains
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.
View ArticleMicrosoft researchers explore a practical way to build bug-free software
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.
View ArticleA laptop battery system that knows your habits and lasts a lot longer
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...
View ArticleJohn Markoff and Peter Lee talk self-driving cars, robots taking the SAT and...
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.
View ArticleThe summer of data science
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,...
View ArticleKukelova honored for advancing computer vision and other engineering...
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft looks to stop bike crashes before they happen, testing Minority...
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...
View ArticleAffordable camera reveals hidden details invisible to the naked eye
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...
View ArticleHere's why Microsoft cares about basic research -- and you should, too
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...
View ArticleHow a Red Bull Air Race pilot is helping solve future robot and drone...
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft's dope new tool is like autocomplete for drawing
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft expands availability of Project Oxford intelligent services
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.
View ArticleSwimming in a deluge of user generated content
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.
View Article'Hyper lanes' for driverless cars? Microsoft Research's Eric Horvitz on the...
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,...
View ArticleAt Microsoft Research Asia, artificial intelligence is informing, and...
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...
View ArticleHelping wildlife conservation, one ultra-low power processor at a time
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...
View ArticleIdeas blossom for using Microsoft HoloLens
Meet the award recipients of the first Microsoft HoloLens academic research grants.
View ArticleHappy? Sad? Angry? This Microsoft tool can recognize emotions in pictures
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...
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