Microsoft Research blog
Introducing TORC: A rigid haptic controller that renders elastic objects
| Mar Gonzalez Franco and Eyal Ofek
Oxymorons of haptics might be the new normal Consumer virtual reality (VR) systems can immerse users in wonderous virtual worlds, rich in sights and sounds. However, how many times have you reached for an object in VR or augmented reality…
Toward Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence
| Daniel McDuff and Ashish Kapoor
Recent successes in machine intelligence hinge on core computation ability to efficiently search through billions of possibilities in order to make decisions. Sequences of decisions, if successful, often suggest that perhaps computation is catching up to–or even surpassing–human intelligence. Human…
Deep InfoMax: Learning good representations through mutual information maximization
| Devon Hjelm, Philip Bachman, and Adam Trischler
As researchers continue to apply machine learning to more complex real-world problems, they’ll need to rely less on algorithms that require annotation. This is not only because labels are expensive, but also because supervised learners trained only to predict annotations…
Beyond spell checkers: Enhancing the editing process with deep learning
| Miltos Allamanis, Marc Brockschmidt, and Alex Gaunt
“Here’s my conference paper—what do you think?” After hours of agonizing over words and illustrations, sharing a draft document is a moment of great pride. All too often, this is shortly followed by embarrassment when your colleague gets back to…