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Microsoft Research Asia Symposium on Collaborative Research presents exciting innovations
By Xin Ma, Regional University Relations Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The 2015 Microsoft Research Asia Symposium on Collaborative Research was held on November 27 in Beijing, China. Professors from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore gathered at this first annual event…
Bringing together history and data science with Microsoft Azure
By Winnie Cui, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Andrea Nanetti is a historian and associate professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Some might think that, as a historian, he’d…
In the news | China Daily
Microsoft, IBM eye technology to forecast air pollution in China
Yu Zheng, a researcher at Microsoft, told China Daily that technology companies like Microsoft ‘can leverage their computing infrastructures, data management, analytics tools and knowledge in data science to help forecast air pollution.’
New thinking in computer education
By Bei Li, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research “The current development of computer science resembles the Renaissance in Italy of the 15th century,” said Tim Pan, director of Microsoft Research Asia, during a keynote speech on “Interdisciplinary Effect” at the…
Jeannette Wing promotes computational thinking at World Computer Congress
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia It’s incontrovertible that technology is changing the face of education. Today, students throughout the world conduct research online and complete their school assignments digitally. Many students have access to laptops…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft researchers win ImageNet computer vision challenge
Microsoft researchers on Thursday announced a major advance in technology designed to identify the objects in a photograph or video, showcasing a system whose accuracy meets and sometimes exceeds human-level performance. Microsoft’s new approach to recognizing images also took first…
In the news | NBC News
Microsoft, IBM Eye Big Business Opportunity in China’s Air Pollution
Advances in cognitive computing—machines programmed to improve modeling on their own—allow more sophisticated forecasting software to provide predictions for the air quality index.
In the news | GeekWire
As pollution in Beijing reaches extreme levels, here’s what Microsoft Research is doing to help
Urban Air, a project developed by Microsoft researchers, is an interactive map that lets users see air quality levels across 72 cities in China.
In the news | GeekWire
Why people in China love Microsoft’s Xiaoice virtual companion, and what it says about artificial intelligence
Hon explains how Xiaoice is similar to digital assistants like those we’re familiar with in the U.S.: Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Facebook’s M, Google Now, and Microsoft’s own Cortana.