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In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft extends its Cognitive Services with personalization service, handwriting recognition APIs and more
Microsoft’s new pre-built machine learning models for its Cognitive Services platform include an API for building personalization features, a form recognizer for automating data entry, a handwriting recognition API, and an enhanced speech recognition service that focuses on transcribing conversations.
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s TORC will let you feel squeezable objects in AR and VR
Focusing on potential AR and VR applications, Microsoft researchers today announced TORC, short for Touch Rigid Controller, a small, physically solid device that uses haptics to replicate the elasticity of squeezed objects.
CHI squared with Dr. Ken Hinckley and Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
Episode 74, May 1, 2019 – If you want to know what’s going on in the world of human computer interaction research, or what’s new at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, you should hang out with…
In the news | Quartz at Work
If you have a hard time saying “no” to meetings, let software do it for you
I probably have a number of bad time-management habits, but I’m painfully aware of only one: a glaring tendency to overcommit to events and meetings, even ones I suspect won’t be that fruitful…
In the news | Fast Company
Machine Teaching is a thing, and Microsoft wants to own it
Microsoft is rallying behind ‘machine teaching,’ and it’s loosely defined by Microsoft as a set of tools that human experts in any field can use to train AI on their own.
In the news | The AI Blog
Machine teaching: How people’s expertise makes AI even more powerful
As the desire to use AI for more scenarios has grown, Microsoft scientists and product developers have pioneered a complementary approach called machine teaching. This relies on people’s expertise to break a problem into easier tasks and give machine learning…
In the news | Forbes
4 Super Simple Ways You Can Proactively Reduce Stress
In honor of April Awareness Month, I spoke to Margaret Price and Mary Czerwinski, two behavioral researchers from Microsoft, on proactive ways of dealing with stress. Price researches human behavior through our relationship with technology, and Czerwinski studies emotions and…
Awards | ACM
Victor Bahl receives ACM Distinguished Service Award
Victor Bahl received the ACM Distinguished Service Award for significant and lasting service to the broad community of mobile computing and wireless networking, and for building strong linkages between academia, industry, and government agencies. His efforts have led to the…
Awards | USENIX
Yongguang Zhang receives USENIX Test of Time Award
Yongguang Zhang received the USENIX Test of Time Award for his paper, ‘Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors‘, published in the Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (opens in new tab)…