While UXR Day is an internal event, we share the news about what we’re doing and thinking to show how much the UXR discipline is valued, and encourage people to join our teams. Research is in our DNA.
Podcast: Research @Microsoft Research India: interdisciplinary and impactful. With Dr. Sriram Rajamani
Episode 008 | April 20, 2021 Podcast: Research @Microsoft Research India: interdisciplinary and impactful. With Dr. Sriram Rajamani Microsoft Research India is constantly exploring how research can enable new technologies that positively impact the lives of people while…
ZeRO-Infinity and DeepSpeed: Unlocking unprecedented model scale for deep learning training
| DeepSpeed Team, Rangan Majumder, and Andrey Proskurin
Since the DeepSpeed optimization library was introduced last year, it has rolled out numerous novel optimizations for training large AI models—improving scale, speed, cost, and usability. As large models have quickly evolved over the last year, so too has DeepSpeed.…
In the news | Untangling the Web Podcast
Episode 13: Web and the New Future of Work with Jaime Teevan
In this episode, (26 min. long) we talk with Jaime Teevan, chief scientist for Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices, where she’s charged with creating the future of productivity. She also developed the first personalized search algorithm used by Bing and introduced…
Reinforcing program correctness with reinforcement learning
| Suvam Mukherjee
Many of our online activities, from receiving and sending emails to searching for information to streaming movies, are driven behind the scenes by cloud-based distributed architectures. Writing concurrent software—programs with multiple logical threads of execution—is of paramount importance to scale…
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Innovation by (and beyond) the numbers: A history of research collaborations in Excel
Microsoft Excel is one of the world’s most important software tools, relied upon by users worldwide to create, understand, model, predict, and collaborate. As the Excel team works to leverage new areas of computer science – advancements in programming languages, NLP,…
In the news | MICROSOFT AZURE BLOG
Empowering operators on their cloud migration journey
For operators, many challenges can be involved in their journey to the cloud, some more complex than others. Here, it is important to note that when it comes to operators’ path to cloud migration, there is no such thing as…
This is a common story among experimenters: you have a hypothesis to test, you code the change you want to deploy, and you design an A/B test to properly measure the impact of the change on the user. After the…