The science behind semantic search: How AI from Bing is powering Azure Cognitive Search
| Rangan Majumder, Alec Berntson, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕), Jianfeng Gao, Furu Wei, and Nan Duan
Azure Cognitive Search (opens in new tab) is a cloud search service that gives developers APIs and tools to build rich search experiences over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications. It has multiple components, including an API for indexing and querying, seamless integration through Azure data ingestion, deep…
Awards | ACM
Susan Dumais elected into ACM SIGIR Academy
Susan Dumais was inducted into the first class of the ACM SIGIR Academy (opens in new tab) in recognition of her significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR). Susan is a leader in IR,…
In the news | Inria blog
Inria: helping to modernise income tax calculations with Mlang
After Etalab helped them to get things off the ground back in 2016, and through close collaboration with the Direction Générale des Finances Publiques (the French public finance department), three researchers, among them Denis Merigoux (from Inria Paris), were given…
In the news | The Seattle Times
Screening to detect prior coronavirus infections launched by Adaptive Biotech, with Microsoft’s help
Adaptive Biotechnologies launched a test that uses machine-learning technology from Microsoft to detect prior coronavirus infections, aiming to fill an important gap left by standard antibody screening. The screening, called T-Detect COVID, searches for T-cell responses against the disease, rather…
读博秘籍｜寻找课题？突破瓶颈？师生关系？MSRA 联培星友为你指点迷津
攻读博士是一段孤独又充满挑战的旅程，若有师兄师姐指点迷津，一定能带你走出迷茫，勇敢选择。2 月 8 日，五位毕业于微软亚洲研究院联合培养博士生项目的师兄师姐院友，在线上为师弟师妹们带来了自己在读博期间和日后工作中的切身感悟，以期答疑解惑并鼓励大家坚定梦想。本次活动由微软亚洲研究院资深学术经理孙丽君、实习生项目负责人窦安琪组织与主持。希望这些师兄师姐的分享能鼓励与启发读博路上的每一个你，带你愉快地享...
“论文奖项高产户”董力的自我修养：Aim Higher
编者按：获得国际顶会的最佳论文奖是每一位科研人员的目标。博士毕业刚刚3年的微软亚洲研究院主管研究员董力在2021年伊始连续获得了 AI 领域的两个最佳论文 Runner-Up 奖。今天就让我们一起来看看，他拥有了怎样的天时、地利与人和。 近期，人工智能促进协会 AAAI 联合国际计算机学会 ACM SIGAI 首次发布了博士论文奖，并在今年2月举办的第35届人工智能国际会议 AAAI 上正式公布了...
In the news | Microsoft Stories | India
Democratizing air pollution data so India can clear its cities of choking smog
A majority of the world’s most polluted cities are in India. Air quality data that is accessible to citizens can help tackle the menace.
HEXA: Self-supervised pretraining with hard examples improves visual representations
| Chunyuan Li, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans perceive the world through observing a large number of visual scenes around us and then effectively generalizing—in other words, interpreting and identifying scenes they haven’t encountered before—without heavily relying on labeled annotations for every single scene. One of the…
AAAI 2021: Accelerating the impact of artificial intelligence
The purpose of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, according to its bylaws, is twofold. The first is to promote research in the area of AI, and the second is to promote the responsible use of these types of technology. The result was a 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) (opens…