by Pradeep
2 weeks
Microsoft Research today revealed its latest project named Project Zanzibar which showcases the potential of bringing the physical and digital worlds together. Project Zanzibar is a sensing platform in the form of a flexible, port...
by Pradeep
1 month
A team of Microsoft researchers today announced that their new machine translation system can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person. This is the first time a ma...
by Pradeep
2 months
Microsoft yesterday announced a new research project called Soundscape that empowers blind people to explore the world around them through a 3D audio experience. Soundscape is a free iOS app that allows people to set audio beacons...
by Pradeep
3 months
During Microsoft’s earnings call earlier this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that Cortana digital assistant has its own strength when compared to other assistants like Alexa as Cortana has a lot of unique information...
by Pradeep
3 months
Microsoft Research today announced a one-year AI Residency Program for university graduates in the US and the UK that will prepare them to innovate in multiple areas of AI, including machine learning, planning, and decision making...
by Pradeep
5 months
As announced earlier this month, Microsoft Research today released a new iOS to help users who are learning Chinese. According to Microsoft Research, this app aims to solve a problem that is familiar to any language learner who h...
by Pradeep
6 months
If you’ve ever taken an academic course, you must have done some project or research work that required writing research paper. Citations are big part of research papers and it is very difficult to format the citations as there ...
by Pradeep
6 months
Microsoft today released an update for their Pix camera app for iOS devices. In the last update, Microsoft added the ability for Pix to recognize documents, whiteboards and business cards. With this latest update, Microsoft has ad...
by Pradeep
7 months
Microsoft today released a major update for their Pix camera app for iOS devices. This latest update three new features. First, Microsoft has added Apple iCloud cloud storage support. Second, Microsoft is adding Office Lens featur...
8 months
Microsoft’s speech recognition technology just hit human-level accuracy. The company’s research team announced that its speech recognition system now has a Word Error Rate (WER) of only 5.1%. That’s down from the...
by Pradeep
9 months
Last year, Microsoft announced the formation of Microsoft AI and Research, a new group within Microsoft that brings together approximately 7,500 computer scientists, researchers and engineers from the Microsoft’s research la...
by Surur
9 months
Microsoft Research’s Advanced Technologies Lab recently showed off a research project called Project Prague that will allow app developers to include basic hand gesture support into their applications without much work. Th...