Challenges and Opportunities in Human-Machine Partnership
The new wave of excitement about AI in recent years has been based on successes in perception tasks or on domains with limited and known dynamics. Because machines have achieved human parity in accuracy for…
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) for Deep Learning
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) is a production-grade, open-source, deep-learning library. In the spirit of democratizing AI tools, CNTK embraces fully open development, is available on GitHub, and provides support for both Windows and Linux. The…
Keynote: The Interplay of Agent and Market Design
Humans make hundreds of routine decisions daily. More often than not, the impact of our decisions depends on the decisions of others. As AI progresses, we are offloading more and more of these decisions to…
From Visual Sensing to Visual Intelligence
Computer vision is arguably one of the most challenging subfields of AI. To better address the key challenges, the vision research community has long been branched off from the general AI community and focused on…
Research in Focus: AI experimentation platform—Project Malmo
This session talks about Project Malmo, a unique AI experimentation platform based on the game Minecraft. Microsoft Research’s Katja Hofmann and Evelyne Viegas talk about the genesis of the platform, what researchers are using it…
Tech Showcase: Microsoft Translator Live
Microsoft Translator live enables users to hold translated conversations across two or more languages, with up to 100 participants participating at the same time using PowerPoint, iOS, Android, Windows and web endpoints. Businesses, retail stores,…
Research in Focus: InfoBots
The next step for search involves InfoBots that know how to find the answer you’re looking for, not just a set of webpages that may—or may not—have those answers. In this session, Microsoft’s Nilesh Bhide…
Learnings from Human Perception
Scientists have long explored the different sensory inputs to better understand how humans perceive the world and control their bodies. Many of the great discoveries about the human perceptual system were first found through laboratory…
Research in Focus: Project InnerEye – Assistive AI for Cancer Treatment
In this session, Ivan Tarapov demos a prototype application of assistive AI for cancer treatment: helping a radiologist create a treatment plan. AI has the capability of identifying the tumor and nearby anatomical structures in…
Tech Showcase: Mobile Directions Robot
This demo shows our work on a mobile robot that gives directions to visitors. Currently, this robot is navigating Microsoft Building 99, leading people, escorting and interacting with visitors and generally providing a social presence…