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In addition to identifying the content within a single image, relating images and generating related images are critical tasks for image understanding.

Building Machines That Learn like Humans What is the essence of human intelligence — what makes any human child smarter than any artificial intelligence system that has ever been built?

In deterministic optimization, line searches are a standard tool ensuring stability and efficiency.

Crowd-sourcing labor markets (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk) are booming, because they enable rapid construction of complex workflows that seamlessly mix human computation with computer automation.

Building predictive models first requires shaping the data into the right format to meet the mathematical assumptions of machine learning algorithms.

An important class of problems involves training deep neural networks with sparse prediction targets of very high dimension D. These occur naturally in e.g.

Amy Braverman Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Session Chair Intro: Data Science Challenges in Earth and Space Science George Djorgovski California Institute of

The alliance between AI and economics is making an ever-growing societal impact.

Our seemingly steady Sun is a variable and violent place, with its activity rising and falling roughly every 11 years, most notably manifested as the sunspot cycle.

In this talk, we overview our contribution to data mining and more generally to the cross-fertilization between data mining and propositional satisfiability (

Large displays are becoming commodity, and more and more, they are touch-enabled.

The Galton-Watson tree is a basic demographic model. The classic equation for a Galton-Watson tree being infinite has two solutions, only one of which is "correct." What about other properties.

The Human Experience & Design Group at Cambridge designs and fabricates new human experiences with computing.

National Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K) is one of the 11 national Centers of Excellence funded by the Big Data-to-knowledge (BD2K) program of the National Institutes

The Physical Web github.com/google/physical-web is an effort to extend the core superpower of the web - the URL - to everyday physical objects.

Humans are physical beings and we think with more than just our brains. We use our bodies to communicate, to process the world and to learn.

Towards Understandable Neural Networks for High Level AI Tasks; Part 2

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Chris Pratley - Sway: Modern Content for Modern Devices

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Steven Drucker, Dave Brown: Microsoft Research Demos on Surface

In the course of their work on the Unique Games Conjecture, Harrow, Kolla, and Schulman proved that the spherical maximal averaging operator on the hypercube satisfies an L 2 bound independent of

Applications with voice interfaces often work in a "one-shot" manner: the user makes a request, the system carries out the request (if it has been understood) and then the dialogue state is reset.

Nature in the City examines the past, present, and future of nature in Bangalore, one of India's largest cities. Though threatened, nature in the city exhibits a remarkable tenacity.

join National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) and Microsoft host Monica Rosenberg for an exploration of our continued efforts to help protect, connect and restore our iconic parks and

Architects and the semiconductor industry as a whole is faced with a unique challenge of improving performance and reducing power consumption of future microprocessors with almost no gain coming

This is a demonstration of a new technology that can add proximity sensing to touch sensors. Therefore, it allows interacting with devices with 3D gestures.

This talk will review our ongoing work on unsupervised latent fault detection in large scale data centers, such as those used cloud services, supercomputers, and compute clusters.

Lucas Joppa is a scientist in the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science group at Microsoft Research.

People use visualization techniques, tools, and artefacts to consume and produce information relevant to many different application domains or use cases.

In this talk, I will discuss a few projects aimed at "closing the loop" for interactive natural language annotation and learning.