Computer Vision and Intelligent Services
Recent advances in image understanding have opened many avenues for computer vision-based intelligent services. These technological advances—which span a broad range of visual understanding tasks including object recognition, video event detection, image search, and scene…
Integrative AI: Panel
The panel discusses challenges and opportunities in integrative artificial intelligence (AI), an area concerned with the development of systems that efficiently and robustly integrate multiple AI technologies (e.g., vision, speech, learning, real-time control) and can…
Integrative AI
Over the last 15 years, significant advances have been made in inference and decision making under uncertainty, machine learning, vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and dialog. Supported by these advances, efforts to develop end-to-end…
Crowd wisdom among many topics examined at top AI event
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Research Researchers have for years sought to understand the way opinions are formed and disseminated throughout social settings. Is there such a thing as the wisdom of the crowd?…
Eric Horvitz’s Vision On The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
Managing director and distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, Eric talks about AI, which he describes as the crashing crest of the wave of computer science.
USDA and Microsoft Innovation Challenge for food resilience
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Microsoft are sponsoring the Innovation Challenge, a competition to develop data-driven software applications that help visualize and explore how climate change will affect the resiliency of food…
Altering Human Perception and Behavior through Immersive Virtual Reality
Several studies have shown that people inside Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) behave realistically when presented with complex situations. As a result a new generation of social and behavioral scientists are turning into VR to design…
USDA and Microsoft Research Innovation Challenge for food resilience
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Microsoft are sponsoring the Innovation Challenge, a competition to develop data-driven software applications that help visualize and explore how climate change will affect the resiliency of food…