The poet in the machine: Auto-generation of poetry directly from images through multi-adversarial training – and a little inspiration
As the means of expressing thoughts and feelings too sublime and elusive to be conveyed in everyday language, poetry across all cultures occupies a most sophisticated and mysterious of realms, just beyond the outskirts of…
Designing the future with the help of the past with Bill Buxton
Episode 46, October 17, 2018 – In a wide-ranging interview, Bill Buxton explains why Marcel Proust and TS Eliot can be instructive for computer scientists, why the long nose of innovation is essential to success…
Microsoft Research New England 10th Anniversary Symposium – Different Disciplines, Shared Vision
Senior Researcher Nicole Immorlica and Deputy Managing Director Christian Borgs offer opening remarks for Microsoft Research New England 10th Anniversary Symposium.
Harnessing Communities of Knowledge: Building an Automated Species Identification Tool
There exists communities of knowledge, and these communities are a distributed, social network of people. Some academic examples include the medical field, engineering, and the natural sciences; non-academic examples include stamp collectors, car enthusiasts and…
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
The ongoing explosion of spatiotemporal tracking data has now made it possible to analyze and model fine-grained behaviors in a wide range of domains. For instance, tracking data is now being collected for every NBA…