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Will machines one day be as creative as humans?
| Sebastian Nowozin
Recent methods in artificial intelligence enable AI software to produce rich and creative digital artifacts such as text and images painted from scratch. One technique used in creating these artifacts are generative adversarial networks (GANs). Today at NIPS 2017, researchers…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft looks to healthcare partners for ways to bring AI benefits to cancer patients
A team of artificial intelligence experts at Microsoft’s Cambridge, U.K., research lab has spent more than a decade looking at ways that AI could be used to make cancer treatment more targeted and effective.
In the news | Windows Central
Microsoft’s Project Emma helps people with Parkinson’s Disease
Approximately 10 million people around the world are living with Parkinson’s Disease, and Microsoft’s Emma Watch can help alleviate one of the disease’s most troubling symptoms.
Scientists use machine learning to predict DNA binding rates from sequence
By Microsoft Research Lab – Cambridge and Department of Bioengineering, Rice University The binding of DNA strands by Watson-Crick base pairing is a fundamental process in biotechnology, which is used around the world for reading and writing DNA sequences and…
Researchers build nanoscale computational circuit boards with DNA
By Microsoft Research Human-engineered systems, from ancient irrigation networks to modern semiconductor circuitry, rely on spatial organization to guide the flow of materials and information. Living cells also use spatial organization to control and accelerate the transmission of molecular signals,…
In the news | Nature Nanotechnology
A spatially localized architecture for fast and modular DNA computing
Fast and scalable molecular logic circuits can be created through the spatial organization of DNA hairpins on DNA origami scaffolds.
Honoring Charles P. Thacker, a visionary computer scientist who changed the world
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research Charles P. Thacker, a visionary and hands-on electrical engineer who designed the first instances of key computing technologies that define modern life, died June 12 at his home in Palo Alto, California. He was…
In the news | Parkinson's Life
“Project Emma” tremor-reducing watch unveiled by Microsoft CEO
The team behind an innovative vibrating wristwatch that helped Emma Lawton—who lives with young-onset Parkinson’s disease—to draw again, introduced the device at a prestigious tech conference.
Presenting the winners of the Project Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge
By Noburu Kuno, Senior Research Program Manager; Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Principal Research Program Manager As we move from narrow AI to more general AI, it will be important to instill machines with the ability to work together with both other agents…