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Get paid for your photos with Trove, a Microsoft Garage project

Lainie Huston — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:44:45 +0000

We’re excited to share a big announcement for Trove, a Microsoft Garage project! Now, people can get paid for contributing accepted photos to AI projects in the Trove marketplace with new PayPal integration. Anyone can try Trove via the new web app and a now open app for Android, expanding participation in the experiment beyond the select set of users....

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MIT students build Mosaic to explore art across cultures at Microsoft Garage

Meixia Huang — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:05:17 +0000

Art is one of the few languages which transcends barriers of country, culture, and time. Most people view art subjectively through a lens shaped by their experiences and environment. Finding commonalities among pieces from different eras and mediums calls for an open mind and a sharp eye. The Mosaic project is taking this intellectual and human approach and augmenting it....

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With new Garage project Trove, people can contribute photos to help developers build AI models

Lainie Huston — Wed, 27 May 2020 15:53:43 +0000

Sep 23, 2020 Update Trove is now open to try on Android and a new web app! To learn more, read the full story on the Garage Blog. Every day, developers and researchers are finding creative ways to leverage AI to augment human intelligence and solve tough problems. Whether they’re training a computer vision model that can spot endangered snow....

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Garage Externs from MIT collaborate with The Met to spark global connections to art using AI

Meixia Huang — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:30:22 +0000

To help celebrate the second anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Program, The Met teamed up with Microsoft engineers and MIT students and faculty to imagine new ways in which their encyclopedic collection could be explored by global audiences. Chris Hoder speaking at December 2018 hackathon with The Met, MIT, and Microsoft The collaboration started with a....

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Watch For, Hackathon 2017 winner, powers Mixer’s massively successful HypeZone

Garage Team — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:00:51 +0000

HypeZone, released in December 2017, rapidly gained millions of new users to livestream community Mixer. HypeZone’s secret weapon? The 2017 Hackathon Grand Prize Winner, Watch For, a Microsoft Garage project. Last month, Microsoft’s fifth annual One Week Hackathon wrapped up with astounding numbers. This year, during the largest private hackathon on the planet, over 23,000 employees registered to hack, and....

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Snip Insights brings AI to Snipping tool with intelligent insights

Garage Team — Wed, 09 May 2018 14:45:43 +0000

What if everyday work flows were re-imagined through the power of AI to inspire and delight? What if users could achieve more with a tool that is both easily accessible and familiar? Millions of Windows users perform the same task every single day. Screenshots are taken all the time, but as technologies progress in leaps and bounds, screen capturing tools....

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The napkin disrupted: meet Ink to Code, a Microsoft Garage project

Lainie Huston — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:00:26 +0000

Urban legend has it that some of the greatest ideas in history started with a napkin. The Gettysburg Address, the poem that gave way to the U.S. National Anthem, and the premise of the Harry Potter series—each were reportedly born into the world through the medium of sketches on scrap paper—and when app creators put pen to paper for their....

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Artificial intelligence eclipses cloud and mobile projects to win the day at Microsoft 2017 Hackathon

Anne Legato — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:15:50 +0000

What started in 2014 as an experiment to engage employees has turned into a strategic tradition to help Microsoft establish itself at the leading edge of innovation. And this year, the hottest player at the Microsoft Hackathon was artificial intelligence. Organizers say the four-day event, which has become the world’s biggest private hackathon with more than 18,000 employee participants, provides....

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New Garage project brings predictive analytics to sports performance data

Lainie Huston — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:00:27 +0000

Sports Performance Platform, a Microsoft Garage project, announces an invitation-only experiment for teams and athletes. Sign up to express interest in participating. Meet the newest project to join the Garage portfolio: Sports Performance Platform. A project built on Power BI, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Surface technology, Sports Performance Platform has an ambitious mission to drive the shift in the sports industry....

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