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Four Microsoft researchers named as 2021 ACM Fellows
Four Microsoft researchers were among those honored for 2021: Nikolaj Bjorner, Tie-Yan Liu, Ryen White, and Tom Zimmermann. ACM Fellows includes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to…
In the news | Microsoft Asia News Center
Artificial intelligence + finance = intelligent investment
AI model analyzes mountains of financial data to help market traders make better buy-and-sell calls. Fund managers and traders could soon be making better informed buy-and-sell market decisions – and bring in higher returns for their investor clients – with…
In the news | Microsoft Asia News Center
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) leads in 2019 WMT international machine translation competition
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has achieved eight top places in the recent machine translation challenge organized by the 2019 fourth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19), out of the eleven tasks it undertook. Overall, there are nineteen machine translation categories in…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
A team of Microsoft researchers said Wednesday that they believe they have created the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person.
Five Microsoft researchers have been named as Distinguished Members of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The honors recognize the individuals’ significant contributions and impact to computer science across a range of disciplines and highlight the…