Lester Mackey is a statistical ML researcher at Microsoft Research New England. He sat down with Society for Science's Maya Ajmera for a conversation in Science News on his experiences as a Society for Science competition winner & the future of #MachineLearning: aka.ms/AA68mol

Meet Ada, the architectural project using #AI to translate expressions, noise, voice tones and language into a choreographed dance of color and light: msft.social/0Dgtbx #MSRAda

SandDance provides 2D and 3D visualizations, bar charts, scatter plots, stacked charts, density plots, and interactive filtering and faceting of data. Discover more about the tool! Blog: aka.ms/AA67vza GitHub: aka.ms/AA67w1h #MSRPodcast: aka.ms/Odltmt

Technology can help save lives. With access to more data and tools, @Casadelaamistad is treating three times as many childhood cancer patients as before. #MSAITour

Microsoft Research's Autonomous Greenhouse Is Early Stage But 'Commerce Ready' precisionag.com/digital-farmin…

We are thrilled to announce the latest AI for Accessibility grantees who are changing the game for people with disabilities through the use of artificial intelligence. #AIforGood #A11y aka.ms/AI4ANDEAM

With the help of Project EmpowerMD, Microsoft and NuanceHealth aim to bring conversational AI to the exam room of the future in a new partnership. aka.ms/AA6cagc

In partnership with Microsoft, Humana will use Azure, #AzureAI and Microsoft 365 to build modern health care solutions that make health care experiences simpler to navigate. Learn more: msft.social/Jcy71u

Congratulations to Peter Lee for this great honor! nam.edu/national-acade…

Mainstream social computing technologies currently exclude billions in low-resource environments. Visiting researcher Aditya Vashistha from Cornell University shares three systems that he created for people facing literacy, language, socioeconomic & connectivity barriers: aka.ms/AA6cuww

This International #SnowLeopardDay, learn how Microsoft AI and Snow Leopard Trust are teaming to protect the animals from extinction. #AIforEarth #AI microsoft.com/en-us/ai/empow…

Detecting leaks, mapping dams and forecasting algal blooms… This is how technology and #AI can help manage the Earth’s precious water resources: msft.social/pb10ir #WaterScarcity #WaterCrisis

A robot hand taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube after creating its own training regime. technologyreview.com/s/614554/a-rob…

“We do want to tackle hard problems. But we also want to tackle real problems.” Learn about Dr. T.J. Hazen’s quest to teach computers to answer complex questions in the real world. #MSRPodcast #AI microsoft.com/en-us/research…

In his @MSResearch work, Ed Cutrell wants to make great technology available to all. microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Knowing when & how AI fails critical in pursuit of robustness, safety, fairness. We've released Error Analysis, a tool for exploring distrib. of errors across features & cases bit.ly/2NHL6Rm erroranalysis.ai Besmira Nushi 💙💛 Microsoft Research Partnership on AI National Security Commission on AI

We are now at a much better place than people like Wiener and Shannon seventy years ago when it comes to uncovering, understanding, and even exploiting Intelligence. Doris Tsao Yi Ma

Check out Grounded-Segment-Anything by my students and colleagues: automatically Detect, Segment and Generate anything with image and text Inputs. Edge segmentation can be further improved.

Too many objects, so little time: Open set object detection work by my colleagues and students 10 FPS (640x640) on NVIDIA Orin NX

x.com/_akhaliq/statu… - Performance of Step1X-Edit approaches that of GPT4o and Gemini Flash - Consistency of Step1X-Edit is impressive