January 21, 2021
In this webinar, join Jeff Delmerico and Helen Oleynikova, Senior Scientists at the Mixed Reality and AI Zurich Lab, in exploring how mixed reality (MR)—which blends the digital world with the physical one—can be used to provide an easier and safer way to interact with…
December 15, 2020
In this webinar, Microsoft Researcher Eyal Ofek presents a summary of research investigating opportunities and challenges for realizing a mobile VR office environment. In particular, you’ll learn how VR can be mixed with standard off-the-shelf equipment (such as tablets, laptops, or desktops) to enable effective,…
December 9, 2020
In the last decade, we’ve seen fast-paced progress in spatial computing and its convergence with AI, where spatial computing solutions like virtual reality and augmented reality are becoming a main interaction tool. These advancements are moving us from experiences in which digital content is confined…
December 3, 2020
In this webinar, join Microsoft researchers Amit Sharma and Emre Kıcıman to learn about the fundamentals of causal inference. You will learn how a target question of cause and effect can be captured in a formal graphical model and answered systematically using available data. The…
November 23, 2020
In this webinar, Microsoft Principal Researcher Daniel McDuff and University of Washington PhD student Xin Liu will present an overview of computer vision methods that leverage ordinary webcams to measure physiological signals (for example, peripheral blood flow, heart rate, respiration, and blood oxygenation) without contact…
November 18, 2020
In this webinar, led by Dr. Thomas Ball, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, and Stefania Druga, a PhD student at the University of Washington, learn how children and families are using TileCode to create retro video games on handheld gaming devices. You’ll gain an understanding…
November 12, 2020
In this webinar, based on the book Twitter: A Biography, Microsoft Senior Principal Researcher Nancy Baym and Queensland University of Technology Professor Jean Burgess introduce an original approach to this problem: the Platform Biography, a systematic framework for analyzing social media platforms. The framework provides a toolbox of concepts and empirical methods to diagnose patterns of past and…
October 15, 2020
In this webinar, Microsoft researchers Hoifung Poon, Senior Director of Biomedical NLP, and Jianfeng Gao, Distinguished Scientist, will challenge this assumption by showing that for domains with abundant unlabeled text, such as biomedicine, pretraining language models from scratch results in substantial gains over continual pretraining…
October 8, 2020
In this webinar, Karthik Ramachandra, a Principal Engineering Manager who heads the Azure SQL Database R & D India organization at Microsoft, will take you on a journey addressing this important but often overlooked problem. First, he’ll describe how the declarative and imperative styles of…
September 17, 2020
In this webinar, join Microsoft researcher Karin Strauss in exploring the role of biotechnology and synthetic DNA in reaching this goal. Although we have yet to achieve scalable, general-purpose molecular computation, there are areas of IT in which a molecular approach shows growing promise. These…
September 10, 2020
In this webinar, Dan Bohus, a Senior Principal Researcher in the Perception and Interaction Group at Microsoft Research, will introduce Platform for Situated Intelligence, an open-source framework that aims to address these challenges and accelerate and simplify the development, study, debugging, and maintenance of multimodal, integrative…
August 13, 2020
In this webinar led by Microsoft Principal Researcher Dr. Nikunj Raghuvanshi, learn the ins and outs of creating practical, high-quality sound simulations. You will get an overview of the three components of sound simulation: synthesis, propagation, and spatialization. For each, we will review the underlying…
