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Building machine learning (ML) models is an involved process requiring ML experts, engineers, and labelers.

Maluuba’s vision is to build literate machines. The research team has built deep learning models that can process written unstructured text and answer questions against it.

When traveling to China it’s best to know at least a bit of the language. The mobile app called Learn Chinese can help travelers enjoy a better journey.

DeepFindSearching within web documents on mobile devices is difficult and unnatural: ctrl-f searches only for exact matches, and it's hard to see the search results.

The BrainWave deep learning platform running on field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based hardware microservices supports democratizing AI for all of Microsoft.

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Today's most popular applications are deployed as massive-scale distributed systems in the datacenter.

As quantum computing technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, the techniques required to calibrate and certify device performance are becoming commensurately sophisticated.

Many envision that AI (artificial intelligence) will usher in the next iteration of technology revolution, where humans and machines will work side-by-side to augment, enhance, or accelerate our

Can higher-order functional programs solve more problems than first-order programs? Answer: NO, since both program classes are Turing complete.

The Voronoi Treemap is a space-filling treemap technique that relaxes the constraints of rectangular nodes.

Analysts visit Microsoft AI +R to learn about research approach and demos of projects.

In January 2014, the east coast (PJM) electricity grid experienced an increase in the price of electricity from $31/MWh to $2,680/MWh in a matter of 10 minutes.

This demonstration uses Softbank’s Pepper robot as testbed hardware to show a set of human-collaboration activities based on Microsoft Cognitive Services and other Microsoft Research technologies.

This demo demonstrates several applications of Microsoft's recent work in artistic style transfer for images and videos.

As we move into the world of messaging apps, bots and botification of content, users are starting to move from keyword searches to relying on bots and assistants for their information seeking needs.

Visual search, AKA search by image, is a new way of searching for information using an image or part of an image as the query.

Zo is a sophisticated machine conversationalist with the personality of a 22-year-old with #friendgoals.

Project Malmo is an open source AI experimentation platform that supports fundamental AI research.

Mining subgraph patterns is an active area of research. Till now, the focus has primarily been on mining all subgraph patterns in the given database.

Network pricing games provide a framework for modeling real-world settings with two types of strategic agents: users of the network and owners (operators) of the network.

This demo shows how InstaFact brings the information and intelligence of the Satori knowledge graph into Microsoft’s productivity software.

This demo shows how Custom Vision Service can be applied to many AI vision applications.

Microsoft Translator live enables users to hold translated conversations across two or more languages, with up to 100 participants participating at the same time using PowerPoint, iOS, Android

Two of the most important components of speech recognition systems are the acoustic model and the language model.

As the volume of data goes up, the quality of machine learning models, predictions, and services will improve.

Video abstract for PLDI 2015 paper. Produced by Neeltje Berger and Natalya Butterworth (Microsoft Research).

Emotions are fundamental to human interactions and influence memory, decision-making, and well-being.

How do we make AI agents appear to be more “human”?

The new wave of excitement about AI in recent years has been based on successes in perception tasks or on domains with limited and known dynamics.