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2017 Beauty of Programming contest winners take big AI steps
On August 15, the sixth annual Microsoft Beauty of Programming Challenge — a programming competition for college students in Asia — came to a close. This year’s theme focused on artificial intelligence question and answer (Q&A) projects. The challenge asked…
During September 19-20, 2017, Microsoft Research Asia held a two-day PhD Forum event for past and future Fellows. This year’s event was packed with scientific and training elements, a fireside chat on career development, and plenty of networking opportunities.
When data mining large datasets, it’s usually difficult to achieve both efficiency and accuracy. If you search efficiently, accuracy is lost; if you require accuracy, it’s hard to be efficient. But through the development of an elegant and remarkably simple…
Program that repairs programs: how to achieve 78.3 percent precision in automated program repair
By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager of Microsoft Research Asia In February 2017, Microsoft and Cambridge University announced a DeepCoder algorithm that produces programs from problem inputs/outputs. DeepCoder, which operates on a novel yet greatly simplified programming language, cannot handle…
AI with creative eyes amplifies the artistic sense of everyone
By Gang Hua, Principal Researcher, Research Manager Recent advances in the branch of artificial intelligence (AI) known as machine learning are helping everyone, including artistically challenged people such as myself, transform images and videos into creative and shareable works of…
Path Guide: A New Approach to Indoor Navigation
By Yuanchao Shu, Associate Researcher, and Börje Karlsson, Sr. Research Dev Lead, Microsoft Research Mobile outdoor GPS navigation apps have proven to be lifesavers to countless people. With a smartphone in hand, it is easy to find your way to…
Background Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) is Microsoft’s fundamental research facility in the Asia Pacific region. By attracting the best talent from Asia and across the globe, it has grown into a world-class research laboratory with more than 220 researchers and…
Researchers develop new visual intelligence techniques to boost smart home security
By Kangping Liu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Imagine when you leave your house or apartment that a smart home security system can automatically “look after” your home, giving you real-time notices about events happening at home, or…
At CNCC2016, the annual conference of China Computer Federation (CCF) in Taiyuan, the “Best Solution Award of 2016” was awarded to Microsoft Academic. We’re honored that the organizing committee and more than 5,000 attendees voted this solution the best of…