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Dans l’actualité | BBC News
AI experiments roam Minecraft’s lands
Minecraft has gained a tool that lets artificial intelligence experiments be carried out in its virtual worlds.
Dans l’actualité | The Verge
Microsoft will now let anyone test their AI creations in Minecraft
Microsoft has announced a public release for Project Malmo, the company’s system for testing AI software in Minecraft—and for the first time, anyone can join in.
Dans l’actualité | Forbes
Future Tech: Seventeen Microsoft Researchers On The Technology of 2017 And 2027
The researcher’s ideas about future technology in 2017 and 2027 make for interesting reading and the world will be a better and more interesting place if half of what they envision comes to pass.
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Blog
Project Malmo, which lets researchers use Minecraft for AI research, makes public debut
Microsoft has made Project Malmo, a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research, available for novice to experienced programmers on GitHub via an open-source license.
Prix | ACM SIGPLAN
Simon Peyton Jones receives 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award
Simon Peyton Jones received the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award (opens in new tab) for his leading role over the past 30 years in the design, implementation and evolution of Haskell (opens in new tab) and the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) (opens in…
Prix | The Royal Society
Simon Peyton Jones elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Simon Peyton Jones (opens in new tab) elected Fellow of the Royal Society (opens in new tab) for his pioneering work on functional programming languages and as lead designer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and for his pivotal role in the…
Prix | ACM SIGMOBILE
James Scott receives ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award
James Scott awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for Place lab: Device positioning using radio beacons in the wild. Place Lab was a seminal effort to achieve accurate localization of mobile devices using existing infrastructure and…
Dans l’actualité | Womanthology
Banishing imposter syndrome by driving up female representation in maths
Sara-Jane Dunn joined Microsoft in 2012, spending her first two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Alongside her current position, she is an Affiliate Researcher of the Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute. Sara-Jane is a specialist in mathematical…
Dans l’actualité | Wired
Making AI Play Lots of Videogames Could Be Huge (No, Seriously)
IT’S ALMOST A given that you’ll ride in an autonomous car at some point in your life, and when you do, the AI controlling it just might have honed its skills playing Minecraft.