Teaching computers to describe images as people would
Let’s say you’re scrolling through your favorite social media app and you come across a series of pictures of a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a long … Read more »
You might not see the next wave of breakthrough tech, but it’s all around you
Think of your favorite pieces of technology. These are the things that you use every day for work and play, and pretty much can’t live without. Chances are, at least one … Read more »
Decades of computer vision research, one ‘Swiss Army knife’
When Anne Taylor walks into a room, she wants to know the same things that any person would. Where is there an empty seat? Who is walking up to me, … Read more »
Project Malmo: Using Minecraft to build more intelligent technology
Editor’s note, April 1, 2016: This project was formerly known as Project AIX and has now been renamed Project Malmo. In the airy, loft-like Microsoft Research lab in New York … Read more »
How Microsoft and Novartis created Assess MS
When Microsoft released the Kinect system for playing Xbox video games about five years ago, it attracted the interest of an unlikely source: the healthcare company Novartis. For years, Novartis … Read more »
Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
Microsoft is making the tools that its own researchers use to speed up advances in artificial intelligence available to a broader group of developers by releasing its Computational Network Toolkit … Read more »
Molecular biology meets computer science tools in new system for CRISPR
A team of researchers from Microsoft and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new system that allows researchers to more quickly and effectively use the powerful … Read more »
Microsoft 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 human-level … Read more »
The quest to create technology that understands speech as well as a human
Not too long ago, the idea of creating tools that could understand speech as well as a human seemed more like the stuff of science fiction than computer science. These … Read more »
System trains machines to look at images the way people do – and answer questions about them
A picture, the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. When a person is asked about something in a photo, they’re taking in a lot of details – a lot … Read more »
How Triple Handshake, Freak and Logjam discoveries contributed to a broader effort to safeguard the Internet
When researchers from Microsoft and the French research organization INRIA discovered and helped fix three serious security vulnerabilities in a popular system for enabling secure Internet transactions, many people assumed … Read more »