— Vancouver, B.C.-based online education company Thinkific announced former Hootsuite executive Henk Campher as chief marketing officer. Based in Seattle, Campher was most recently VP of corporate marketing at social… Read More
A newly published report on the state of artificial intelligence says the field has reached a turning point where attention must be paid to the everyday applications of AI technology… Read More
Amazon veteran Greg Hart, a former technical advisor to Jeff Bezos, is joining Compass as its new chief product officer. Hart spent 23 years at Amazon, most recently running the… Read More
Microsoft today named its first chief scientific officer, promoting longtime research leader and technical fellow Eric Horvitz to the newly created role. It also announced Microsoft Healthcare chief Peter Lee… Read More
Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a rising competitor for human intelligence, in settings ranging from human-vs.-machine card games to the “Terminator” movie series. But according to Eric Horvitz, the… Read More
Concerns over the potential abuse of artificial intelligence technology have led Microsoft to cut off significant sales, says Eric Horvitz, technical fellow and director at Microsoft Research Labs. Horvitz laid out… Read More
Microsoft’s first mission statement envisioned a computer on every desk and in every home, but Bill Gates also had another goal: that computers would someday be able to see, hear,… Read More
In a surprise move last week, Jeannette Wing — a noted computer scientist and corporate vice president of Microsoft Research — announced she would be stepping down from her role at the Redmond,… Read More
Microsoft is planning to bring its Cortana virtual assistant to iPhone and Android as a standalone app, competing more directly with Apple’s Siri and Google Now, according to a report this morning by… Read More