Project Catapult servers available to academic researchers
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hyperlapse Pro for Mac arrives: Video processing app creates...
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft open sources Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for more...
Researchers at the Microsoft Asia research lab this week made the Microsoft Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit openly available to the developer community.
View ArticleWith quantum computing simulator, Microsoft offers a sneak peek into future...
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.
View ArticleMicrosoft releases 'Future Visions' anthology of science fiction inspired by...
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.
View ArticleHow Triple Handshake, Freak and Logjam discoveries contributed to a broader...
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...
View ArticleSystem trains machines to look at images the way people do – and answer...
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.
View ArticleAs pollution in Beijing reaches extreme levels, here's what Microsoft...
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.
View ArticleMicrosoft helps out healthcare sector with new data encryption algorithm
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft boffins build better crypto for secure medical data crunching
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...
View ArticleSpeak, hear, talk: The long quest for technology that understands speech as...
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...
View ArticleDeng receives prestigious IEEE Technical Achievement Award
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...
View ArticleFrom AI and data science to cryptography: Microsoft researchers offer 16...
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.
View ArticleDeep learning, machine learning advancements highlight Microsoft's research...
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.
View ArticleFinding a community: Women in Machine Learning workshop celebrates 10th year
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft Computational Network Toolkit offers most efficient distributed...
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...
View ArticleACM names five Microsoft researchers as Fellows, Distinguished Scientists
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft researchers win ImageNet computer vision challenge
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...
View ArticleIEEE Fellow Sengupta transformed cloud computing, data storage, network routing
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft-led research team wins Marr prize for outstanding computer vision...
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...
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