{"id":749476,"date":"2021-05-28T08:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=749476"},"modified":"2021-10-22T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T22:10:34","slug":"scheduler","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/scheduler\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheduler"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background-catalina-blue card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 align-self-center\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card material-md-card py-5 px-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 id=\"scheduler\" class=\"h2\">Scheduler<\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/scheduler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scheduler<\/a> is an intelligent assistant that uses natural language to coordinate, negotiate, and schedule your meetings. Scheduler was previously called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/calendar-help-2\/\">Calender.help<\/a> and was developed at Microsoft Research and currently a joint project with the Outlook team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Welcome to Scheduler for Microsoft 365&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheduler for Microsoft 365 is a service that enables&nbsp;users to delegate meeting and appointment scheduling to their digital personal assistant, Cortana. Scheduler uses natural language processing to interpret emails&nbsp;sent to Cortana (<a href=\"mailto:cortana@contoso.com\">cortana@yourdomain.com<\/a>) to find a time to meet and send meeting requests for the meeting organizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheduler:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Communicates&nbsp;with the meeting organizer and attendees in natural&nbsp;language<\/li><li>Finds&nbsp;a time to meet when everyone is&nbsp;available<\/li><li>Coordinates between external attendees based on the organizer\u2019s&nbsp;availability<\/li><li>Keeps the meeting organizer informed on scheduling progress and asks the organizer for guidance when&nbsp;needed<\/li><li>Negotiates times to meet across up to two different time&nbsp;zones<\/li><li>Sends the invitation to the&nbsp;meeting<\/li><li>Adds a Teams link to every&nbsp;meeting<\/li><li>Reschedules&nbsp;or cancels&nbsp;meetings&nbsp;booked by&nbsp;Cortana<\/li><li>Works from any device with email<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheduler, a joint project between Microsoft Research and Outlook teams, is an intelligent assistant that uses natural language to coordinate, negotiate, and schedule your meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556,13545,13554],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-749476","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-research-area-human-language-technologies","msr-research-area-human-computer-interaction","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"2020-01-01","related-publications":[354410,723307,749617,871689],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[602973],"related-groups":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[636450],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[],"slides":[],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Soham Deshmukh","user_id":40312,"people_section":"Section name 0","alias":"sdeshmukh"}],"msr_research_lab":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/749476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-project"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/749476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787615,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/749476\/revisions\/787615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=749476"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=749476"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=749476"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=749476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}