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Speaker: Carlos Eduardo Pedreira In the last decades, there have been major technological advances in medical diagnosis and monitoring devices such as flow cytometers and magnetic resonance

Moderator: Rico Malvar, Microsoft Research Panelists: Celso Massaki Hirata, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA) Roberto Boisson de Marca, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Gustavo

Speaker: Judith Bishop, Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research Open Source Software (OSS) is a movement that the IT industry has subscribed to with great success over many years.

Speaker: Alex Wade The creation and use of knowledge graphs for information discovery, question answering, and task completion has exploded in recent years, but their application has often been

Speaker: Rico Malvar, Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research In this talk we present an overview of recent developments in information technology, especially in the areas of computer vision, speech

Opening statements from Microsoft Research's 2016 Latin American Faculty Summit by: Paula Bellizia, General Manager, Microsoft Brazil Rico Malvar, Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research Gustavo

Despite the health benefits, not many people would play soccer by themselves. So why swim by yourself?

Researchers from the University of Texas collaborated with other researchers, federal agencies, commercial partners, and first responders to create the National Flood Interoperability Experiment

Augmented Reality (AR) applications may require the precise alignment of virtual objects to the real world.

We explore the concept of a sparse peripheral display, which augments the field-of-view of a head-mounted display with a lightweight, low-resolution, inexpensively produced array of LEDs surrounding

This overview captures highlights from a day of brainstorming and discussions at Microsoft Research.

Six groups composed of Microsoft Research computer scientists and their colleagues from other research organizations reflected separately about the past 20 years and the future to come, in the

Eva Tardos offers advice about working in a career field in which you're in the minority.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces the Seeing AI prototype along with software engineer Saqib Shaikh at the Microsoft Build Developer Conference.

One of the key problems in human-computer interactions is the ability of the computer to understand what a person wants, yet with LUIS, it’s no longer a problem.

LUIS leverages Microsoft’s wealth in Machine Learning to enable you to add conversational intelligence to your app and build language understanding models for any custom domain.

With CRIS, overcoming speech recognition barriers like speaking style, background noise and vocabulary is no longer a challenge.

As voice has unique characteristics, similar to a fingerprint, that can be used to identify a user. Just like everyone has a unique fingerprint everyone has a unique voice.

FarmBeats, a new agriculture research project developed by Microsoft, uses solar-powered white space-based Internet connectivity to record soil temperature and moisture levels and track them with

A team from the University of Oxford hopes to lift five million people in rural Africa and Asia from water-related poverty by linking smart water-pumps to the cloud.

Take a look under the hood of an app using the new speech translation API.

In this excerpt from //build/, walk through adding speech translation to an app built with APIs from Microsoft’s Cognitive Services.

In this excerpt from his presentation at //build/, Microsoft Executive Vice President Dr.

ProDeaf, an application vendor specializing in developing technologies to support the hard-of-hearing and deaf communities, integrated the new Microsoft Translator Speech Translation API into their

SandDance helps you visually explore datasets to find stories and extract insights.

Scientists from the University of Stirling and University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom tackled the knotty problem of delays on airport taxiways, where planes are entering or leaving runways.

Fetch! is an iPhone app that can identify breeds from photos of dogs. In addition to identifying the breed, Fetch!

Several years ago, the biotech company Novartis came to Microsoft because they had seen the Kinect system for Xbox game consoles and thought the body movement sensors might be helpful for tracking

Several years ago, the biotech company Novartis came to Microsoft because they had seen the Kinect system for Xbox game consoles and thought the body movement sensors might be helpful for tracking

A Panorama of the Skies is an audiovisual installation created in collaboration between Maja Petrić, an artist, and Hrvoje Benko, a human-computer interaction researcher at Microsoft Research.