Microsoft Academy

The Microsoft Imagine Academy program provides educational institutions with access to a full curriculum solution. for teaching technology courses and learning tools that help teachers gain technology skills, and help students to. achieve success through employability and industry certification.

Helping researchers stay on top of their game

Microsoft Academic(opens in new tab) is a project exploring how to assist humans conducting scientific research by leveraging machine’s cognitive power in memory, computation, sensing, attention, and endurance. The research questions include:

• Knowledge acquisition and reasoning: We deploy AI-powered machine readers to process all documents discovered by Bing crawler and extract scholarly entities and their relationships to form a knowledge base. To learn more and access our biweekly graph updates, please visit Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG)(opens in new tab) and its online documents(opens in new tab).
• Semantic search and recommendation: The website, Microsoft Academic (MA)(opens in new tab), uses the same intelligence in the machine readers to infer query intent and retrieve most relevant knowledge in Microsoft Academic Graph(opens in new tab). Like an personal assistant, it can also recommend materials you might not know exist and alert you with the recent publication and late breaking news that you might find interesting.
• Importance assessment and ranking: as needed in reasoning and inferences, the importance of each entity is estimated and quantified. We study reinforcement learning algorithms that can effectively predict community judgments on all entities, using future citations as the delayed reward function.

The most recent review of our work is published in this journal paper by Frontiers(opens in new tab) and this by QSS(opens in new tab).