Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
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Microsoft Research New England 10th Anniversary Symposium – Panel: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics
This panel will discuss how computer science intersects with issues of fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics. Experts will discuss what these concepts mean in general and in the particular context of systems employing artificial intelligence.…
Publication
Generating Diverse Numbers of Diverse Keyphrases
Event
MSRNE 10th Anniversary Symposium
To mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft Research New England, we are hosting a one-day symposium comprised of themed panels focused on mathematics and theory, economics, big data and machine learning, fairness, and social platforms.…
Microsoft Research Blog
Workshop yields concrete AI solutions for advancing societal good
Artificial intelligence has made tremendous strides in recent years, but oftentimes, its potential to help tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues is overshadowed by concerns and misunderstandings surrounding this growing technology. To focus…
Podcast
Leading labs with Dr. Jennifer Chayes
Episode 45, October 10, 2018 – Dr. Chayes shares her passion for the value of undirected inquiry, talks about her unlikely journey from rebel to researcher, and explains how she believes her research philosophy –…
Video
Stochastic Approximation and Reinforcement Learning: Hidden Theory and New Super-Fast Algorithms
Stochastic approximation algorithms are used to approximate solutions to fixed point equations that involve expectations of functions with respect to possibly unknown distributions. Among many algorithms in machine learning, reinforcement learning algorithms such as TD-…
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Human Creativity Can be Enhanced Through Interacting With a Social Robot: New Directions for NLP, AI, HRI, and Ubiquitous Computing
As humans, we create art, music, machines, digital life – new ideas that have never been thought of before, and new ways of doing things. Science depends on the creative mind. So does the economic…
Microsoft Research Blog
The Microsoft Infer.NET machine learning framework goes open source
It isn’t every day that one gets to announce that one of the top-tier cross-platform frameworks for model-based machine learning is open to one and all worldwide. We’re extremely excited today to open source Infer.NET…
