Platform for Situated Intelligence

April 29, 2024 | Dan Bohus and Sean Andrist

Microsoft recently developed and released the Situated Interactive Guidance, Monitoring, and Assistance (SIGMA) system, an open-source research platform, to enable research and innovation at the intersection of mixed reality and AI.

December 22, 2023

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.

September 6, 2023

New evaluation methods and a commitment to continual improvement are musts if we’re to build multimodal AI systems that advance human goals. Learn about cutting-edge research into the responsible development and use of multimodal AI at Microsoft.

December 17, 2020

Microsoft researchers pursue the big questions about what the world will be like in the future and the role technology will play. Not only do they take on the responsibility of exploring the long-term vision of their research, but they…

September 2, 2020 | Dan Bohus and Sean Andrist

Over the years at Microsoft Research, we’ve studied how to build AI systems that perceive, understand, and act in a human-filled world in real time. Our motivation has been to create computing systems that can support interactive experiences akin to…

April 13, 2018 | Dan Bohus

Over the last decade, advances in machine learning coupled with the availability of large amounts of data have led to significant progress on long-standing AI challenges. In domains like computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation and image captioning, machines have…