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Hsiao-Wuen Hon receives 2014-2016 Great Wall Friendship Award
The Beijing Municipal Government presented a 2014-2016 Great Wall Friendship Award to Hsiao-Wuen Hon, corporate vice president of Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D group and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia. Hon was chosen for extraordinary contributions in the fields of…
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AI wave rolls through Microsoft’s language translation technologies
A fresh wave of artificial intelligence rolling through Microsoft’s language translation technologies is bringing more accurate speech recognition to more of the world’s languages and higher quality machine-powered translations to all 60 languages supported by Microsoft’s translation technologies.
Computing in the 21st Century: Academic collaboration fosters the art of artificial intelligence
On October 19, 2017, in Harbin, China, Microsoft Research Asia and Harbin Institute of Technology jointly held the 19th annual Computing in the 21st Century conference to share advanced AI research results and opinions with more than 1,600 students and…
Many computer vision applications require the points on an object in one image to be matched with their corresponding object points in another image, such as a car door handle matched to a different model of car’s door handle.
2017 Beauty of Programming contest winners take big AI steps
On August 15, the sixth annual Microsoft Beauty of Programming Challenge — a programming competition for college students in Asia — came to a close. This year’s theme focused on artificial intelligence question and answer (Q&A) projects. The challenge asked…
During September 19-20, 2017, Microsoft Research Asia held a two-day PhD Forum event for past and future Fellows. This year’s event was packed with scientific and training elements, a fireside chat on career development, and plenty of networking opportunities.
When data mining large datasets, it’s usually difficult to achieve both efficiency and accuracy. If you search efficiently, accuracy is lost; if you require accuracy, it’s hard to be efficient. But through the development of an elegant and remarkably simple…
Program that repairs programs: how to achieve 78.3 percent precision in automated program repair
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager of Microsoft Research Asia In February 2017, Microsoft and Cambridge University announced a DeepCoder algorithm that produces programs from problem inputs/outputs. DeepCoder, which operates on a novel yet greatly simplified programming language, cannot handle…
AI with creative eyes amplifies the artistic sense of everyone
By Gang Hua, Principal Researcher, Research Manager Recent advances in the branch of artificial intelligence (AI) known as machine learning are helping everyone, including artistically challenged people such as myself, transform images and videos into creative and shareable works of…