Machine Learning

Imagine your child is writing a report about Abraham Lincoln, they just started and so far they’ve typed: “Lincoln was the 16th president of United States. He was born in…” but then realize they’ve forgotten when Honest...

Re-post of a recent article that ran on the An estimated 360 million people worldwide suffer from hearing loss. But a majority of hearing individuals do not understand sign language. So communication between the hearing and the deaf can be challenging...

In case you missed it: Channel 9 recently featured a discussion and demos of our preview release of Azure Stream Analytics. “Data Exposed” is a good place on Channel 9 to learn about Microsoft’s world of data – be it relational...

The recent Practice of Machine Learning Conference at Microsoft concluded with a lively panel discussion moderated by principal researcher Misha Bilenko on the topic of: "Are We at Peak ML, or at the Start of AI Takeover? Hype vs. Reality of Machine...

Re-post of an article that appeared today on The Role of Content Quality in Bing Ranking Millions of users come to Bing every day to find information that matters to them. In earlier generations of search, a query such as “ breast cancer symptoms”...

Three new stories about Microsoft ML and Advanced Analytics. 1. Fueling the Oil and Gas industry with IoT The oil and gas industry’s supply chain starts in some of world’s most remote areas and serves consumers globally in all the...

This blog post is authored by Shahrokh Mortazavi , Partner Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning team. Two languages are closely associated with Data Science today – R and Python. In Azure ML we’ve supported...

Tweet Chat with John Platt Thu December 4 th , 1 pm PDT Hosted by: @MLatMSFT Hashtag: #MLatMSFT He is one of the leading experts in Machine Learning, a multi-patented inventor and data guru. During his Ph.D. at Caltech he even managed to discover...

Microsoft’s Machine Learning technology got a bit of press coverage in the past week – here’s a quick round up of the major stories: 1. Internet of Things Helps Asthma Patients Breathe Easily Medical device company Aerocrine is reducing...

Overview AzureML Web Service APIs are published from Experiments that are built using modules with configurable parameters. There is often a need to change the module behavior during Web Service execution. The Web Service Parameters feature enables...

This blog post is authored by John Platt , Deputy Managing Director and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research. I have been excited for many years now in the grand challenge of image understanding. There are as many definitions of image understanding...

This blog post was co-authored by Debi Mishra , Jacob Spoelstra and Dmitry Pechyony of the Information Management & Machine Learning team at Microsoft. Microsoft has a strong track record for crafting tools such as our Office apps or Visual Studio...

R is the most widely used language today for machine learning, but its power is sometimes limited by gaps in the technology meant to bring it to life. In this webinar, learn how you can use your existing skills in R in new ways, including deploying models...

This is a re-post of an article from NetworkWorld. The search engine continues its track record of astonishingly accurate predictions. "Now that the dust has settled from the elections, Bing Predict has won out again with a 95% accuracy...

We recently concluded the Fall 2014 edition of our Practice of Machine Learning Conference (PMLC). Over 1,700 Microsoft employees attended the two day event, which featured 60 talks on a broad spectrum of areas ranging from new algorithms to ML applications...

This article is a re-post from the Microsoft Research Connections Blog. A year ago, the Microsoft Azure for Research project began as a small effort to help external researchers and scientists (and Microsoft) understand how the cloud could accelerate...

Re-post of an article from VentureBeat earlier this week. "... you’ll welcome a recent development coming out of the PASS Summit in Seattle. Microsoft executives on the scene there announced that the company is opening up Azure Machine...

Re-post of an article that ran earlier this week, from Information Week. Dell extends its big data analysis capabilities, adding natural-language processing and integrating Microsoft Azure Machine Learning services.

Yesterday, we announced the commercial availability of Azure Event Hubs . In the IoT (Internet of Things) world that we live in, ever large amounts of telemetry data are being emitted by multiple distinct sources such as sensors and applications embedded...

Starting today, we made it easier than ever for anyone to try Azure Machine Learning. Our service is now available to test free of charge without a subscription or credit card – all you need to get going is a Microsoft account! You can read more...

This post was co-authored by Vijay K Narayanan , Partner Director of Software Engineering at the Azure Machine Learning team at Microsoft. Introduction Anomaly Detection is the problem of finding patterns in data that do not conform to a model of...

Re-post of a ZDNet article earlier this week by Mary Jo Foley. Microsoft takes wraps off preview of its Azure Data Factory service Summary: Another new Microsoft Azure service now in preview is aimed at helping developers integrate and get insights...

Earlier this week, at TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona, we announced the preview of Azure Stream Analytics . Azure Stream Analytics is a cost-effective event processing engine that helps uncover real-time insights from devices, sensors, infrastructure...

Earlier this week, at TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona, we announced the preview of Azure Data Factory . Azure Data Factory enables information production by orchestrating and managing diverse data. Learn about the ins and outs of this new service here...

This is the second of a 2-part blog post by Chris Bishop , Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research. The first part is available here . Last week we explored the key role played by probabilities in machine learning, and we saw some of the advantages...