Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
Podcast
Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison
Episode 60, January 23, 2019 – Dr. Morrison gives us an overview of what she calls the “pillars” of inclusive design, shares how her research is positively impacting people with health issues and disabilities, and…
Video
Machine Learning and Fairness
Originally a discipline limited to academic circles, machine learning is now increasingly mainstream, being used in more visible and impactful ways. While this growing field presents huge opportunities, it also comes with unique challenges, particularly…
Webinar
Machine learning and fairness webinar
In this webinar led by Microsoft researchers Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach, 15-year veterans of the machine learning field, you’ll learn how to make detecting and mitigating biases a first-order priority in your development and deployment…
Microsoft Research Blog
Winning combination: 2019 Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace and PhD Fellowships support top talent
Microsoft Research is proud to announce the 2019 winners of the Ada Lovelace Fellowship and PhD Fellowship. The Ada Lovelace Fellowship is a new fellowship for Microsoft Research, established to support diverse talent getting doctorates…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Ability Initiative: A collaborative quest to innovate in image captioning for people who are blind or with low vision
Microsoft is committed to pushing the boundaries of technology to improve and positively influence all parts of society. Recent advances in deep learning and related AI techniques have resulted in significant strides in automated image…
Podcast
Building contextually intelligent assistants with Dr. Paul Bennett
Episode 59, January 16, 2019 – Dr. Bennett brings us up to speed on the science of contextually intelligent assistants, explains how what we think our machines can do actually shapes what we expect them…
Project
FigureQA Dataset
Answering questions about a given image is a difficult task, requiring both an understanding of the image and the accompanying query. Microsoft research Montreal’s FigureQA dataset introduces a new visual reasoning task for research, specific…
Project
Frames Dataset
Motivation A generation of voice assistants such as Siri, Cortana, and Google Now have been popular spoken dialogue systems. More recently, we have seen a rise in text-based conversational agents (aka chatbots). Text is preferred…