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Frontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach
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.
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 Focus: Week of April 10, 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. To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity…
PeopleLens: Using AI to support social interaction between children who are blind and their peers
| Cecily Morrison, Katherine Jones, Martin Grayson, and Ed Cutrell
For children born blind, social interaction can be particularly challenging. A child may have difficulty aiming their voice at the person they’re talking to and put their head on their desk instead. Linguistically advanced young people may struggle with maintaining…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Project Alexandria parses documents using unsupervised learning
In 2014, Microsoft launched Project Alexandria, a research effort within its Cambridge research division dedicated to discovering entities — topics of information — and their associated properties. Building on the research lab’s work in knowledge mining research using probabilistic programming,…
New Future of Work: Meeting and collaborating in a remote and hybrid world with Jaime Teevan and Abigail Sellen
In this episode of The New Future of Work series of the podcast, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Abigail Sellen, Deputy Lab Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge in the United Kingdom, explore the dynamics of meetings and collaborations in the…
In the news | Microsoft Worklab
Designing the New Hybrid Meeting Experience—for Everyone
How teams from across Microsoft worked together to help remote and in-person workers see eye to eye. It began with a couple of folding tables from Costco. In November, Greg Baribault, a product leader for Microsoft Teams, and his colleague…
CHI 2021: Making remote and hybrid meetings work in the new future of work
| Jaime Teevan
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, some truths about the nature of work have been underscored: it is uniquely complex, quickly shifting, and increasingly technology-mediated. Teaching, medicine, mental health, and other professions—previously thought to be near-impossible to do remotely—have…
Alexandria in Microsoft Viva Topics: from big data to big knowledge
| Sanil Rajput , John Winn, Naomi Moneypenny, Yordan Zaykov, and CJ Tan
Project Alexandria is a research project within Microsoft Research Cambridge dedicated to discovering entities, or topics of information, and their associated properties from unstructured documents. This research lab has studied knowledge mining research for over a decade, using the probabilistic…