Bring your phones to the conference table: creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices
Recent advances in machine learning and signal processing, as well as the availability of massive computing power, have resulted in dramatic and steady improvement in speech recognition accuracy. Voice interfaces to digital devices have become…
A Short Introduction to DIMACS & DIMACS and MSR-NYC
A Short Introduction to DIMACS, Fred Roberts, DIMACS Fred Roberts gives an overview of the DIMACS center founded in 1989, after a nationwide competition, as an NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) with the theme…
Inside the Microsoft AI Residency Program with Dr. Brian Broll
In 2018, Microsoft launched the Microsoft AI Residency Program, a year-long, expanded research experience designed to give recent graduates in a variety of fields the opportunity to work alongside prominent researchers at MSR on cutting…
TensorWatch: A System for Debugging and Visualizing Deep Learning Model Development
GitHub We present a comprehensive, interactive and extensible system to assist in debugging and visualization with a focus on the tasks that are often encountered by the practitioners during the various phases of model development.…
Improving Doctor-Patient Interaction with ML-Enabled Clinical Note Taking
While the majority of hospital appointments in the ambulatory setting as well as General Practitioners use Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, these are poorly designed for use during patient encounters. The introduction of EHRs in…
The Future of Mathematics?
As a professor of pure mathematics, my job involves teaching, research, and outreach. Two years ago I got interested in formal methods, and I learned how to use the Lean theorem prover developed at MSR.…