Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence simulator has been expanded to include autonomous car research. The company has announced that its AirSim system will be used for testing the safety of vehicle artificial intelligence systems.
As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field’s researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know — or how they know it.
The Beijing Municipal Government presented a 2014-2016 Great Wall Friendship Award to Hsiao-Wuen Hon, corporate vice president of Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D group and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia. Hon was chosen for extraordinary…
Approximately 10 million people around the world are living with Parkinson’s Disease, and Microsoft’s Emma Watch can help alleviate one of the disease’s most troubling symptoms.
A fresh wave of artificial intelligence rolling through Microsoft’s language translation technologies is bringing more accurate speech recognition to more of the world’s languages and higher quality machine-powered translations to all 60 languages supported by…
HAMS, which stands for Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety, is a virtual harness for vehicles that focusses on two factors that are critical to road safetyâthe state of the driver, and his or her driving relative…
Susan Dumais received the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (opens in new tab) (CIKM) 2017 inaugural Test of Time Award (opens in new tab) for being the first author of the paper Inductive Learning Algorithms and Representations for Text…
James Weinstein is Chief Executive Officer and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. Under his leadership, Dartmouth-Hitchcock is working to create a “sustainable health system” for the patients and communities it serves, for generations to come.
An AI-dedicated processor available on the Huawei Mate 10, even in the absence of internet access, enables the system to produce translations whose quality is on par with the online system.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award in 2017 to the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), an engineering experts’ group led by co-chairs Gary J. Sullivan of…