Microsoft has released a set of 100,000 questions and answers that artificial intelligence researchers can use in their quest to create systems that can read and answer questions as well … Read more »
For James Simmonds-Read, overcoming language barriers is essential. He works at The Children’s Society in London with migrants and refugees, mostly young men who are victims of human trafficking. “They … Read more »
This week we are celebrating Computer Science Education Week around the globe. In this “age of acceleration,” in which advances in technology and the globalization of business are transforming entire … Read more »
When Robert Schapire started studying theoretical machine learning in graduate school three decades ago, the field was so obscure that what is today a major international conference was just a … Read more »
Microsoft is doubling down on its commitment to the tantalizing field of quantum computing, making a strong bet that it is possible to create a scalable quantum computer using what … 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 »
