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Dans l’actualité | BBC News
Can the Micro Bit inspire a million?
An ambitious plan is underway to give a million schoolchildren a tiny device designed to inspire them to get coding.
Dans l’actualité | CBC Radio
Minecraft is the new testing ground for AI
An artificially intelligent program developed by Google called AlphaGo has now beaten the reigning human player of the board game Go. AlphaGo joins Deep Blue and Watson, which have both overcome their human competition to become the champions of the…
Dans l’actualité | CNet
Microsoft sees Minecraft as AI proving ground
Scientists can now use the popular game to let artificial intelligence systems learn how to do things.
Dans l’actualité | TechCrunch
Microsoft is using Minecraft to develop artificial intelligence tech for the real world
Today, Microsoft announced a project that enables artificial intelligence researchers to tap into the hit title to sculpt and develop their tech.
2016 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Projects Announced
By Daron Green, Director, Microsoft Research Every year since 2004, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme has awarded scholarships to fund PhD students’ work on selected projects in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. We are pleased to…
Dans l’actualité | ACM SIGPLAN
The 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (shared with Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Stephanie Weirich, and Geoffrey Washburn)
For the 2009 paper, ‘Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell.’
Dans l’actualité | ACM SIGPLAN
The 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award
Among Simonâs technical contributions to language design is leading work in monadic I/O, type classes, generalized abstract data types, composable transactional memory, generic programming via ‘scrap your boilerplate’, advances in type inference, and more.
Dans l’actualité | The Royal Society
Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy
Simon’s main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC).
Prix | ICCV
Antonio Criminisi awarded Marr Prize
Antonio Criminisi along with Peter Kontschieder, Madalina Fiterau, and Samuel Rota Bulo were awarded the Marr Prize at ICCV 2015 for their award-winning paper, Deep Neural Decision Forests. Their research showed that by using a technique called random forests researchers could create a…