AI and Social Good – Intro
Artificial Intelligence has become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives, and this rise in AI applications has stimulated significant interest from the public, media and policy makers. This increasing attention is often focused on…
Oracle-Efficient Learning and Auction Design
Video Understanding: From Tags to Language
The increasing ubiquity of devices capable of capturing videos has led to an explosion in the amount of recorded video content. Instead of “eyeballing” the videos for potentially useful information, it has therefore been a…
Scale-out acceleration for machine learning
Neural Program Meta-Induction
Physics-based Manipulation with and Around People
Robots manipulate with super-human speed and dexterity on factory floors. But yet they fail even under moderate amounts of clutter or uncertainty. However, human teleoperators perform remarkable acts of manipulation with the same hardware. My…
Equal parts passion and skill key to Microsoft Research high school intern projects
In a group — Microsoft Research — where most of the researchers have PhDs, what can high school students contribute? How can Microsoft contribute to high school students? Those questions were answered this summer, when…
Accelerating data science at the Alan Turing Institute with Microsoft Azure
Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute in the United Kingdom are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to push the state of the art in data science to better understand what makes us happy, angry…