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Five Microsoft researchers have been named as Distinguished Members of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The honors recognize the individuals’ significant contributions and impact to computer science across a range of disciplines and highlight the…
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Asia Faculty Summit 2016 – AI and Psychology
Gaining an in-depth understanding of users is critical for building artificial intelligence systems. With the rapid development of positioning, sensing and social networking technologies, large quantities of human behavioral data are now readily available.
Top PhD students gather at Microsoft Research Asia PhD Forum 2016
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Since its inception in 1998, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has anointed nearly 400 top researchers with the coveted honor of “Microsoft Research Fellow.” Some of them recently returned to Beijing, sharing…
Events in Seoul foster artificial intelligence discussion and collaboration
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia More than 1,700 students and faculty members attended the 18th annual Computing in the 21st Century Conference 2016 last week in Seoul. It was the second time the conference, organized…
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Microsoft researchers release graph that helps machines conceptualize
On Tuesday, a team of scientists from Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s research lab in Beijing, China, announced the public release of technology designed to help computers conceptualize in a humanlike fashion. The Microsoft Concept Graph, as it is known, is…
Bots generate video titles and tags to bring AI researchers one step closer to visual intelligence
By Winnie Cui, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia When your grandma posts a video to the cloud, there it lies, lonely and unwatched, unless your grandmother has more tagging and titling skills than mine does. My nana loves…
Boosting fitness and workplace performance looks to machine learning for answers
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research A field study exploring the usability of integrating fitness equipment into a workstation environment has researchers looking to tap next-generation machine learning innovations to address the seemingly elusive challenge of burning…
Nanotechnology comes to life with needle-based human interface devices
By Noboru Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft and Tokyo’s Keio University have developed systems that could allow people to use tiny, painless needles to do things like monitor medical conditions or receive information without looking at…
Long-term collaboration takes aim at mobile browsing
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia As mobile browsing continues to consume an ever larger share of Internet services, the stakes of improving the mobile user experience have never been greater. That’s one of the reasons that…