In his many years as an artificial intelligence researcher, Eric Horvitz has worked on everything from systems that help determine what’s funny or surprising to those that know when to … Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
