• Perspectives from Microsoft Data Scientists Val Fontama and Wee Hyong Tok

    Repost of an article earlier published on the SQL Data Platform Insider blog. I n an earlier post we talked about a new book titled Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning which released in December on Amazon.com where...
  • Azure ML Predicts Customers’ Shopping Lists – Even Before They Shop!

    We continue our series of posts how Microsoft customers are gaining actionable insights on their data by operationalizing ML and advanced analytics – at scale and in the cloud. As one of the largest independent food delivery service companies...
  • Readers’ Choice – Our 10 Most Popular ML Blog Posts of 2014

    We launched this blog in June 2014 with the intent of sharing important advances and practical knowledge accumulated by Microsoft in the field of ML. After six months of regular posts, many of them authored by world-leading ML researchers and practitioners...
  • Skype Translator Puts Machine Learning to the Test

    Our previous post had a video showing Skype's automatic speech translation in action . In this post, we share an infographic from the Skype team about how they perform such automatic speech recognition and translation (including how they translates...
  • WIRED: How Skype Used AI to Build Its Amazing New Language Translator

    Re-posted from an article that recently appeared on “… a new Microsoft technology that seems borrowed from the world of Star Trek ” “… a Skype add-on that listens to the English words you speak into Microsoft’s...