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Research Focus: Week of July 29, 2024
In this issue: Skeleton Posterior-guided OpTimization (SPOT) exhibits potential in various causal discovery tasks; Using visual imagery for an EEG-based brain–computer interface; Developing human-centered AI systems to assist creative professionals.
Research at Microsoft 2023: A year of groundbreaking AI advances and discoveries
AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage for further progress in 2024.
Research Focus: Week of November 8, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Generating both plausible and accurate full body avatar motion is essential for creating…
Abstracts: October 23, 2023
| Gretchen Huizinga, Andy Gordon, and Carina Negreanu
Today on “Abstracts,” Partner Research Manager Andy Gordon & Senior Researcher Carina Negreanu explore new work introducing co-audit, a term for any tool-assisted experience that helps users of generative AI find and fix mistakes in AI output.
Microsoft at VL/HCC 2023: Focus on co-audit tools for spreadsheets
| Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, and Kasra Ferdowsi
These research papers were presented at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (opens in new tab) (VL/HCC 2023), a premier forum for design, theory, and application of computing technologies for programming, modelling, and communication. Large language models…
Highlights from CHI 2023
The ways in which people are able to interact with technologies can have a profound effect on a technology’s utility and adoptability. Building computing tools and services around people’s natural styles of work, communication, and play can give technology the…
Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
Over the past 30 years, Microsoft Research has undergone a shift in how it approaches innovation, broadening its mission to include not only advancing the state of computing but also using technology to tackle some of the world’s most pressing…
Advancing Excel as a programming language with Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Today, people around the globe—from teachers to small-business owners to finance executives—use Microsoft Excel to make sense of the information that occupies their respective worlds, and whether they realize it or not, in doing so, they’re taking on the role…
Innovation by (and beyond) the numbers: A history of research collaborations in Excel
Microsoft Excel is one of the world’s most important software tools, relied upon by users worldwide to create, understand, model, predict, and collaborate. As the Excel team works to leverage new areas of computer science – advancements in programming languages, NLP,…