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AI, deep learning and 3D printing produce ‘The Next Rembrandt’

From the Smithsonian comes news - and a must-see fascinating video - about a painting created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt's work, trained to paint in Rembrandt's signature...

08 April 2016, by Frank Tobe

Microsoft’s Cortana now doing daily morning weather report

The use of Cortana, an AI personal assistant created by Microsoft initially for Windows phones, has been a big hit in Japan and China. The Mandarin language version, named Xiaoice, is being used ...

02 January 2016, by Frank Tobe

Robotics and AI prominent in MIT’s annual 35 Innovators Under 35

The MIT Technology Review’s annual list of 35 Innovators Under 35 aims to illustrate the most important emerging technologies of the moment. Released this August, the 2015 list features a number of...

02 September 2015, by Adriana Hamacher

Talking Machines: Active learning and machine learning in neuroscience, with Microsoft’s Sham Kakade

In episode eighteen we talk with Sham Kakade, of Microsoft Research New England, about his expansive work that touches on everything from neuroscience to theoretical machine learning....

27 August 2015, by Talking Machines

Talking Machines: Machine learning in biology, with Microsoft’s Jennifer Listgarten

In episode seventeen we talk with Jennifer Listgarten of Microsoft Research New England about her work using machine learning to answer questions in biology....

14 August 2015, by Talking Machines

HoloLens: Microsoft’s Holographic Goggles | WIRED

In several months, Microsoft will unveil its most ambitious undertaking in years, a head-mounted holographic computer called Project HoloLens. But at this point, even most people at Microsoft have nev...

22 January 2015, by Hallie Siegel

Microsoft pays 5M CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures

ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research. Over five years, Microsoft Research will provide five million Swiss francs of funding to support IT re...

07 February 2014, by Robohub Editors

What do Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple, Microsoft and all the airlines and car companies want?

They want to communicate more accurately, resolve issues faster and with higher levels of satisfaction than at present. They also want to enable more complex communication. And they want to do it amia...

03 February 2014, by Frank Tobe