Microsoft Academic
Microsoft Academic is a project exploring how to assist human conducting scientific research by leveraging machine’s cognitive power in memory, computation, sensing, attention, and endurance.
Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents must learn to make useful decisions through action and observation alone. To be effective problem solvers, RL agents must efficiently explore vast environments, assign credit from delayed feedback, and generalize to…
Statistical Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Methods
Micro Co-design
The massive scale of cloud infrastructure services enables, and often necessitates, vertical co-design of the infrastructure stack by cloud providers. Micro co-design is a Minimally invasive, Cheap, and retro-fittable approach to co-design that extracts efficiency out of existing…
Ability
The Ability team conducts research at the intersection of HCI and AI, with the aim of developing innovative technologies that extend the capabilities of and enhance quality of life for people with disabilities (long-term, temporary…
Accessibility – How Microsoft is making technology accessible to more people
Researcher Meredith Ringel Morris discusses three projects highlighted at CHI 2018 which focus on improving technology for people with low-vision or blindness. Topics include featured paper Caption Crawler, Rich representations of visual content for screen…