Faculty Summit 2017: The Edge of AI
Location: Redmond, WA
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Keynotes
AI in the Open World
Fielding AI solutions in the open world requires systems to grapple with incompleteness and uncertainty. This session addresses several promising areas of research in open world AI, including enhancing robustness via…
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Smart Enough to Work With Us? Foundations and Challenges for Teamwork-Enabled AI Systems
For much of its history, AI research has aimed toward building intelligent machines independently of their interactions with…
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Fireside Chat with Harry Shum
Christopher Bishop has a fireside chat with Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research…
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The Interplay of Agent and Market Design
Humans make hundreds of routine decisions daily. More often than not, the impact of our decisions depends on the decisions of others…
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AI, People, and Society
Advances in AI promise great benefit to people and organizations. However, as we push the science of AI forward, we need to consider…
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Model-Based Machine Learning
Today, thousands of scientists and engineers are applying machine learning to an extraordinarily broad range of domains, and over the last…
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Research in Focus: Machine Reading Comprehension
Deep learning techniques are helping Microsoft researchers develop literate machines: those that can read for…
Research in Focus: Deep Learning Research and the Future of AI
AI deep learning expert and University of Montreal Professor Yoshua Bengio talks about deep learning—what it is, how…
Research in Focus: Private AI
For AI to achieve its potential, it requires access to large amounts of often sensitive data, which can pose threats to our privacy. This session, featuring Rich…
Research in Focus: Project InnerEye – Assistive AI for Cancer Treatment
In this session, Ivan Tarapov demos a prototype application of assistive AI for cancer treatment: helping a radiologist create…
Research in Focus: AI for Earth
AI for Earth is a new initiative from Microsoft designed to help the planet be more sustainable. This session…
Research in Focus: Conversational Agents
Microsoft’s Lucy Vanderwende and Bill Dolan and Ohio State’s Alan Ritter talk about deep learning algorithms that help…
Research in Focus: InfoBots
The next step for search involves InfoBots that know how to find the answer you’re looking for, not just a set of webpages that may—or may not—have those answers. In this session, Microsoft’s Nilesh Bhide and Manish…
Research in Focus: Transforming Machine Learning and Optimization through Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is in its infancy, but Microsoft’s Krysta Svore and Nathan Wiebe talk about quantum techniques as applied to…
Research in Focus: AI Experimentation Platform – Project Malmo
This session talks about Project Malmo, a unique AI experimentation platform based on the game Minecraft. Microsoft Research’s…
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AI for Accessibility: Augmenting Sensory Capabilities with Intelligent Technology
Advances in AI technologies have important ramifications for the development of accessible technologies…
Integrative-AI
Over the last decade, algorithmic developments coupled with increased computation and data resources have led to advances in well-defined verticals of AI…
Machine Reading Using Neural Machines
Teaching machines to read, process and comprehend natural language documents and images is a coveted goal in modern AI…
Learnings from Human Perception
Scientists have long explored the different sensory inputs to better understand how humans perceive the world and control their…
Conversational Systems in the Era of Deep Learning and Big Data
Recent research in recurrent neural models, combined with the availability of massive amounts of dialog data, have together…
AI for Earth
Human society is faced with an unprecedented challenge to mitigate and adapt to changing climates, ensure resilient water supplies, sustainably feed…
Private AI
As the volume of data goes up, the quality of machine learning models, predictions, and services will improve. Once models are…
Provable Algorithms for ML/AI Problems
Machine learning (ML) has demonstrated success in various domains such as web search, ads, computer vision, natural…
Social and Emotional Intelligence in AI and Agents
Social signals and emotions are fundamental to human interactions and influence memory, decision-making and wellbeing. As AI…
AI and Security
In the future, every company will be using AI, which means that every company will need a secure infrastructure that addresses AI security concerns. At the same time, the domain…
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) for Deep Learning
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) is a production-grade, open-source, deep-learning library. In the spirit of…
Challenges and Opportunities in Human-Machine Partnership
The new wave of excitement about AI in recent years has been based on successes in perception tasks or on domains with limited…
Transforming Machine Learning and Optimization through Quantum Computing
In 1982, Richard Feynman first proposed using a “quantum computer” to simulate physical systems with exponential speed…
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Tech Showcase: Accelerating Research Using Networked FPGAs
Project Catapult connects FPGAs together through a network to create a hyperscale, reconfigurable accelerator…
Tech Showcase: Bing Visual Search
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. Similar to text search, which connects…
Tech Showcase: Cortana, Your Personal Assistant
From ferry schedules to dinner reservations, Cortana is the digital assistant designed to help people get things done…
Tech Showcase: Custom Vision Service
This demo shows how Custom Vision Service can be applied to many AI vision applications. For example, if a client needs to build a custom image classifier…
Tech Showcase: Customizing Speech Recognition for Higher Accuracy Transcriptions
Understanding the land cover types and locations within specific regions enables effective environmental conservation…
Tech Showcase: Deep Artistic Style Transfer: From Images to Videos
This demo demonstrates several applications of Microsoft’s recent work in artistic style transfer for images and videos. One technology, called StyleBank…
Tech Showcase: DeepFind: Searching within Documents to Answer Natural Language Questions
DeepFindSearching within web documents on mobile devices is difficult and unnatural: ctrl-f searches only for exact…
Tech Showcase: InfoBots: AI-Powered Conversational QnA Systems
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…
Tech Showcase: Interactive Chinese Learning App
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. Learn Chinese…
Tech Showcase: Machine Teaching Using the Platform for Interactive Concept Learning (PICL)
Building machine learning (ML) models is an involved process requiring ML experts, engineers, and labelers. The demand…
Tech Showcase: Microsoft Pix
Microsoft Pix helps every photographer take better pictures. Because it incorporates AI behind the lens, it can tweak settings…
Tech Showcase: Microsoft Translator Live
Microsoft Translator live enables users to hold translated conversations across two or more languages, with up to 100 participants…
Tech Showcase: Mobile Directions Robot
This demo shows our work on a mobile robot that gives directions to visitors. Currently, this robot is navigating Microsoft Building 99, leading people, escorting and interacting…
Tech Showcase: Project InnerEye – Assistive AI for Cancer Treatment
Project InnerEye is a new AI product targeted at improving the productivity of oncologists, radiologists, and surgeons…
Tech Showcase: Project Malmo – Experimentation Platform for the Next Generation of AI Research
Project Malmo is an open source AI experimentation platform that supports fundamental AI research. With the…