Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of lung cancer, the most common cause of cancer death in the world. But nearly 20 percent of lung-cancer diagnoses are made in people … Read more »
“Jaguar.” To most computers, that word printed on an otherwise blank screen is simply a string of characters. It’s different for people. You see a word associated with a big … Read more »
Microsoft has released an updated version of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, a system for deep learning that is used to speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition and search … Read more »
Microsoft has come up with a way to significantly reduce the time it takes to do the major computational aspects of sequencing a genome. Microsoft’s method of running the Burrows-Wheeler … Read more »
Microsoft has made a major breakthrough in speech recognition, creating a technology that recognizes the words in a conversation as well as a person does. In a paper published Monday, … Read more »
When we type in a search query, access our email via the cloud or stream a viral video, chances are we don’t spend any time thinking about the technological plumbing … Read more »
Who will win the U.S. presidential election? For David Rothschild, an economist with Microsoft’s research organization in New York, providing continuously updated odds for the major party candidates is a … Read more »
Microsoft is making available to its customers one of the most sophisticated tools it has for rooting out potential security vulnerabilities in software including Windows, Office and other products. The … Read more »
Scientists at Microsoft’s research labs are trying to use computer science to solve one of the most complex and deadly challenges humans face: Cancer. And, for the most part, they … Read more »
Microsoft researchers have reached a milestone in the quest for computers to understand speech as well as humans. Xuedong Huang, the company’s chief speech scientist, reports that in a recent … Read more »
