CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

The computing industry was founded with mainframes intended for the few. Bringing computers to the masses was the work of generations, such as the trailblazers we honor in this story. Whether they ...

Microsoft engineers have devised a new way to keep data centers cool — and it might help prevent the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) hardware from cooking itself to death. The ...

As modern technologies such as artificial intelligence grab today’s headlines, it’s worth remembering that their foundations were being laid more than half a century ago by computer scientists, ...

Microsoft has announced the end of one of computing’s most recognizable and emotionally resonant features, marking the conclusion of a four-decade era that has shaped the Windows user experience for ...

Although AI gained popularity in the year 2018 when OpenAI came into existence, its origins date back to the 1920s. From the foundation laid in 1920 to the emergence of AI in 1956, which laid the ...

At the recent BayLearn 2015 (Bay Area Machine Learning Symposium), Jeff Dean of Google presented “Large-Scale Deep Learning for Intelligent Computer Systems” for one of the keynotes. The talk’s ...