160-million Papers and Counting: The World’s Information Deluge – Frontiers Blog

"Kicked off two years ago, Microsoft Academic is a research project inside Microsoft Research. At its core is an artificial intelligence agent that reads all academic publications on the web to learn and automatically create a massive knowledge base, going far beyond a simple keyword-matching search to provide an overall benchmark and the context of what you’re looking for. A goal of the project is to explore to what extent the advancements in machine intelligence can be harnessed to serve scientists to discover and disseminate new knowledge."