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Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content

Microsoft Research Podcast | Ideas | Kalika Bali

Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali

Microsoft Research Forum | Episode 3 | Jacki O'Neill

Keynote: Building Globally Equitable AI

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EduFeed: A Social Feed to Engage Preliterate Children in Educational Activities

Kiley Sobel, Geza Kovacs, Galen McQuillen, Andrew Cross, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Nathalie Henry Riche, Ed Cutrell, Meredith Ringel Morris

Proceedings of CSCW 2017 | February 2017

Video Project

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Incrementally-deployable Indoor Navigation with Automatic Trace Generation

Yuanchao Shu, Zhuqi Li, Börje F. Karlsson, Yiyong Lin, Thomas Moscibroda, Kang Shin

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) | April 2019

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PocketATM: Understanding and Improving ATM Accessibility in India

Sudheesh Singanamalla, Venkatesh Potluri, Colin Scott, Indrani Medhi Thies

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) | January 2019

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PocketATM: Understanding and Improving ATM Accessibility in India

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) | January 2019

Project

Sonoma

The Sonoma project aims to develop an autonomous system that can operate indoor farms efficiently and reliably.

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Path Guide: A New Approach to Indoor Navigation

Yuanchao Shu, Börje F. Karlsson

July 2017

Project

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Reinforced Cross-Modal Matching and Self-Supervised Imitation Learning for Vision-Language Navigation

Xin Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Dinghan Shen, Yuan-Fang Weng, William Yang Wang, Lei Zhang

CVPR 2019 | June 2019

Best Student Paper Award in CVPR 2019.

Video Project Project Project

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NuiVend – Next Generation Vending Machine

Robert Gruen, Erich Liang

2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI) | December 2016

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Android permissions: a perspective combining risks and benefits

Bhaskar Pratim Sarma, Nighui Li, Chris Gates, Rahul Potharaju, Cristina Nita-Rotuaru, Ian Molloy

SACMAT ’12 Proceedings of the 17th ACM symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies | June 2012

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Soundscape LinkedIn Accessibility Demo

November 1, 2018 | Amos Miller and Satya Nadella

The Microsoft Soundscape app enables anyone to hear the physical world around them. It’s a powerful tool that reimagines how technology can enhance independence and mobility for people who are blind and low vision. In…

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