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Lowering the barriers to artificial intelligence

Unleash the Power of AI for Everyone

Today, we are changing how companies approach automatic translation by leveraging our artificial intelligence expertise to enable anyone to quickly and easily customize translation systems, even without large amounts of previously translated sentences.

Microsoft Researchers win ImageNet computer vision challenge

Featured Program: AI Engage

Browse the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Area

Microsoft Bot Framework (preview)

Build and connect intelligent bots to interact with your users naturally wherever they are, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services.

CNTK: Open source deep learning toolkit on GitHub

Microsoft is making the tools that its own researchers use to speed up advances in artificial intelligence available to a broader group of developers by releasing its Computational Network Toolkit on GitHub.

New to quantum? Here's a primer.

Quantum Computing 101: An introduction to the mind-bending world of quantum computing.

Station Q

Station Q represents Microsoft’s global effort to bring together the world’s mathematicians, computer scientists, quantum physicists, and engineers to build a scalable, fault-tolerant, universal quantum computer.

With quantum computing simulator, a sneak peak into the future of computing - Microsoft Research blog

Quantum computing at Microsoft - meet the team

"Quantum computing could solve problems that would take today's computers eons..." - read more about The Quest for a Quantum Future

Microsoft's New Quantum Simulator LIQUiI>

Language-Integrated Quantum Operations: LIQUi|>

LIQUi|> is a software architecture and tool suite for quantum computing. It includes a programming language, optimization and scheduling algorithms, and quantum simulators. LIQUi|> can be used to translate a quantum algorithm written in the form of a high-level program into the low-level machine instructions for a quantum device.

Featured Program: Azure for Research

The Microsoft Azure for Research program offers researchers the opportunity to apply for large allocations of Azure cloud computing resources. Apply for one of our Azure for Research awards by telling us how the cloud can help solve some of your data-intensive research challenges. Your proposal will be among the 2,000 proposals submitted by Azure researchers around the world. Azure awards have been awarded to approximately 700 selected recipients of Azure for Research Awards to date.

Project Natick: The underwater data center

Project Natick is Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter. The initial experimental prototype vessel, christened the Leona Philpot after a popular Xbox game character, was operated on the seafloor approximately one kilometer off the Pacific coast of the United States from August to November of 2015.

Microsoft and University of Washington researchers set record for DNA storage

Introducing Microsoft Pix: A smarter camera app powered by the magic of AI

Building a better mosquito trap: How a Microsoft research project could help track Zika’s spread

Minecraft for AI research

Microsoft research puts cloud in ocean for the first time

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Lowering the barriers to artificial intelligence

Unleash the Power of AI for Everyone

Microsoft Researchers win ImageNet computer vision challenge

Featured Program: AI Engage

Browse the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Area

Microsoft Bot Framework (preview)

CNTK: Open source deep learning toolkit on GitHub

Towards quantum computing

New to quantum? Here's a primer.

Station Q

With quantum computing simulator, a sneak peak into the future of computing - Microsoft Research blog

Quantum computing at Microsoft - meet the team

"Quantum computing could solve problems that would take today's computers eons..." - read more about The Quest for a Quantum Future

Language-Integrated Quantum Operations: LIQUi|>

Systems for the intelligent cloud

Featured Program: Azure for Research

Project Natick: The underwater data center

R2C2: A Network Stack for Rack-scale Computers Publication

Project Catapult

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The PinDrop project

Scientists and engineers working together to help solve global challenges

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SwiftKey software update promises to make texting more ‘human’

Repeat After Me: Humans Run the Internet, Not Algorithms

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