One of Microsoft’s most distinguished engineers Blaise Agüera y Arcas is joining Google. Arcas will join the machine learning team at Google. Arcas confirmed the rumors today, but did not offer further comment on his reasons for jumping ship.
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Published December 16, 2013
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According to a report by the NY Times, a top engineer and software designer at Microsoft has left the company to join its rival Google. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, the man behind the development of Microsoft’s Bing Maps service and most recently the Photosynth 3D panorama app, has apparently joined Google and will work on “machine learning.”
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