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Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments
Microsoft, owner of the popular video game, revealed that computer scientists and amateurs will be able to evaluate and develop AI software using its virtual landscapes from July. The company says Minecraft is more “sophisticated” than existing AI research simulations…
In the news | Silicon Republic
Microsoft to make Minecraft an advanced AI playground
Loved by millions around the world as a game and as a creative way to learn how to code, Minecraft will become an advanced AI playground for developers this July.
In the news | BBC News
Can the Micro Bit inspire a million?
An ambitious plan is underway to give a million schoolchildren a tiny device designed to inspire them to get coding.
In the news | CBC Radio
Minecraft is the new testing ground for AI
An artificially intelligent program developed by Google called AlphaGo has now beaten the reigning human player of the board game Go. AlphaGo joins Deep Blue and Watson, which have both overcome their human competition to become the champions of the…
In the news | CNet
Microsoft sees Minecraft as AI proving ground
Scientists can now use the popular game to let artificial intelligence systems learn how to do things.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft is using Minecraft to develop artificial intelligence tech for the real world
Today, Microsoft announced a project that enables artificial intelligence researchers to tap into the hit title to sculpt and develop their tech.
2016 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Projects Announced
By Daron Green, Director, Microsoft Research Every year since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme has awarded scholarships to fund PhD students’ work on selected projects in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. We are pleased to…
In the news | ACM SIGPLAN
The 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (shared with Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Stephanie Weirich, and Geoffrey Washburn)
For the 2009 paper, ‘Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell.’
In the news | ACM SIGPLAN
The 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award
Among Simonâs technical contributions to language design is leading work in monadic I/O, type classes, generalized abstract data types, composable transactional memory, generic programming via ‘scrap your boilerplate’, advances in type inference, and more.