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Microsoft researchers release graph that helps machines conceptualize
“Jaguar.” To most computers, that word printed on an otherwise blank screen is simply a string of characters. It’s different for people. You see a word associated with a big cat, a large mammal. Given...
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Microsoft researchers detect lung-cancer risks in web search logs
Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of lung cancer, the most common cause of cancer death in the world. But nearly 20 percent of lung-cancer diagnoses are made in people who are non-smokers. That...
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As machine learning breakthroughs abound, researchers look to democratize...
When Robert Schapire started studying theoretical machine learning in graduate school three decades ago, the field was so obscure that what is today a major international conference was just a tiny...
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Microsoft dataset aims to help researchers create tools to answer questions...
Microsoft has released a set of 100,000 questions and answers that artificial intelligence researchers can use in their quest to create systems that can read and answer questions as well as a human....
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Microsoft shares open source system for training drones, other gadgets to...
When most people with normal vision walk down the street, they can easily differentiate the things they must avoid – like trees, curbs and glass doors — from the things they don’t, such as shadows,...
View ArticleHow Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are working to “solve” cancer
Scientists at Microsoft’s research labs are trying to use computer science to solve one of the most complex and deadly challenges humans face: Cancer. And, for the most part, they are doing so with...
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Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
Microsoft is making the tools that its own researchers use to speed up advances in artificial intelligence available to a broader group of developers by releasing its Computational Network Toolkit on...
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Teaching computers to describe images as people would
Let’s say you’re scrolling through your favorite social media app and you come across a series of pictures of a man in a tuxedo and a woman in a long white dress. An automated image captioning system...
View ArticleEric Horvitz receives ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award for groundbreaking...
In his many years as an artificial intelligence researcher, Eric Horvitz has worked on everything from systems that help determine what’s funny or surprising to those that know when to help us remember...
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Talking with your hands: How Microsoft researchers are moving beyond keyboard...
Kfir Karmon imagines a world in which a person putting together a presentation can add a quote or move an image with a flick of the wrist instead of a click of a mouse. Jamie Shotton envisions a future...
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