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Microsoft trains machine to answer, ‘What’s that animal in your basket?’
Microsoft Research and a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can train machines to examine an image and seek to answer questions the way a human might ask them.
Nachi Nagappan was selected as a 2015 Association for Computing Machinery’s Distinguished Scientist (opens in new tab) for significant accomplishments or impact within the computing field.
In the news | Slashdot
Microsoft to provide new encryption algorithm for the Healthcare Sector
The healthcare sector gets a hand from Microsoft, who will release a new encryption algorithm which will allow developers to handle genomic data in encrypted format, without the need of decryption, and by doing so, minimizing security risks.
In the news | ITNews
Microsoft releases encryption tech for bioinformatics
Microsoft has released tools that allow bioinformatics researchers to work on genome data sets securely to protect privacy.
In the news | The Register
Microsoft boffins build better crypto for secure medical data crunching
As genome research – and the genomes themselves – get passed around the scientific community, the world’s woken up to the security and privacy risks this can involve. A Microsoft research quintet has therefore published ways to help scientists work…
In the news | Tom's Hardware
Microsoft Advances Privacy-Enabling ‘Homomorphic Encryption’ For Analyzing Biomedical Data
Microsoft released a ‘manual for homomorphic encryption for bioinformatics,’ which allows companies to do computation on encrypted data without having to decrypt it first.
In the news | HEAT Project Blog
Microsoft Launch SEAL
It is not just the HEAT project which is working on trying to find applications of Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption in practice; others around the world are also doing this. In particular Microsoft Research Labs have just announced a project called…
In the news | Softpedia News
Microsoft helps out healthcare sector with new data encryption algorithm
Previous reports have pointed the finger at the healthcare sector as being woefully unprepared for the modern age of Internet-enabled devices that are always online and present a constant danger to the patient, hospital, and insurer data.
Andy Wilson was presented with the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Ten-Year Technical Impact Award (opens in new tab) for contributing a seminal paper (TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction) with the largest influence in…