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Research areas
Popular apps, downloads
Taking bolder, riskier bets
Expeditions: Exploring the unknown
Corporate vice president Jeannette M. Wing reflects on the early achievements of the Expeditions Program at Microsoft Research, an initiative encouraging researchers to pursue audacious goals, to take risks in the problems they tackle, to resource them so they can plan for the long term, and to reward their commitment to sticking to a far-reaching vision.
Software development
Schulte receives IEEE honor for research leadership, program verification
Wolfram Schulte, director of engineering for Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise division, will receive the IEEE Computer Society 2016 Harlan D. Mills Award. for contributions that led to major theoretical and practical advances in software verification.
Artificial intelligence
New app uses artificial intelligence to identify dogs
The new iPhone app Fetch! can identify and classify dogs by breeds and tell you what kind of human personality fits best with specific breeds.
Open source AI
CNTK, Microsoft's open source deep learning toolkit, now available on GitHub
By increasing the speed at which computers can understand speech, the Computational Network Toolkit "is just insanely more efficient than anything we've ever seen," says researcher Xuedong Huang.
Academic research and computer science news
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