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Substance, not hype, powers AI excitement at premier machine learning conference

Computing is undergoing the most substantial transformation since the foundations of the field were laid by Alan Turing some eight decades ago. Ahead of the 2016 Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems, Microsoft researcher Chris Bishop answers the question: Is this excitement about AI just hype, or is there substance, too?

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Making better use of the crowd with machine learning

Over the last decade, crowdsourcing has helped solve tasks that are notoriously difficult to crack with computers alone. Jennifer Wortman Vaughan shares more about this relationship and how it's advancing knowledge of machine learning.

Machine learning for the people - what does it mean for you?

AI Engage - humans and machines solving important problems for humanity

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Minecraft and AI: Enabling technology that can collaborate with humans

Learn more about Project Malmo, a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research and innovation.

New to quantum? Here's a primer.

Quantum Computing 101: An introduction to the mind-bending world of quantum computing.

Station Q

Station Q represents Microsoft’s global effort to bring together the world’s mathematicians, computer scientists, quantum physicists, and engineers to build a scalable, fault-tolerant, universal quantum computer.

With quantum computing simulator, a sneak peak into the future of computing - Microsoft Research blog

Quantum computing at Microsoft - meet the team

"Quantum computing could solve problems that would take today's computers eons..." - read more about The Quest for a Quantum Future

Microsoft's New Quantum Simulator LIQUiI>

Language-Integrated Quantum Operations: LIQUi|>

LIQUi|> is a software architecture and tool suite for quantum computing. It includes a programming language, optimization and scheduling algorithms, and quantum simulators. LIQUi|> can be used to translate a quantum algorithm written in the form of a high-level program into the low-level machine instructions for a quantum device.

How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are working to “solve” cancer

Jasmin Fisher doesn’t want to cure cancer. She wants to solve it - and she believes it’s possible in her lifetime.

Video: Programming cells

If scientists can understand cancer and the immune systems as well as they understand how to make Microsoft Word run on a PC, they might be able to equip the immune system to mount a powerful response to cancer on its own.

Project Hanover: Parsing the world's genetic knowledge

Meet the researchers: Biological Computation Group

Blog: Molecular biology meets computer science tools in new system for CRISPR

A team of researchers has developed a new system that allows researchers to more quickly and effectively use the powerful gene editing tool CRISPR.

Video: Using technology to personalize cancer treatment

Machine learning is helping doctors automatically sort fragmented patient information to find the most relevant pieces of data to define the best treatment plan for their patients.

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