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…
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.
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…
Data, Privacy, and the Greater Good
2015 Summer School inspires top PhD students
The first week of July didn’t just see the arrival of extraordinarily high temperatures across Europe—it also brought extraordinarily high energy to Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, as 81 top PhD students gathered for the tenth…