In the news | Inside HPC
FPGAs and the Road to Reprogrammable HPC
GPU acceleration or architectural specialization are not new concepts, but some experts predict they will become increasingly common to speed up performance and also lower energy costs of future systems.
In the news | Korea Economic Daily
Microsoft’s edge computing empowers everyone, at anytime and anyplace
'Azure will be a platform for everyone, everywhere,' Dr. Victor Bahl, Distinguished Scientist and Director of Mobility & Networking Research explained. 'Microsoft has put considerable effort towards the development of edge computing technology' and 'our ultimate goal is to enable…
In the news | ZDNet
What’s next? Telecoms can’t solve this on their own
Korean telecommunication carriers will surely optimize 5G network with edge computing but that's not where it will end. It's not wise to be a solo player, it's much better to collaborate with IT companies that have invested heavily on software…
User research makes your AI smarter
As artificial intelligence grows more prevalent in our products, it's changing what our customers expect from their technology and how they interact with it. For user researches that means they need to know not only how to create effective experiences,…
In the news | PwC UK
How AI can enable a sustainable future
'When it comes to climate change we need to focus less on the cost of doing nothing, and focus more on the environmental and economic benefits of doing something. New PwC research shows how and why.' â Lucas Joppa, Microsoft
The brave new world of cloud-scale systems and networking with Dr. Lidong Zhou
If you’re like me, you’re no longer amazed by how all your technologies can work for you. Rather, you’ve begun to take for granted that they simply should work for you. Instantly. All together. All the time. The fact that…
陈琪：爱上科学研究的“不确定性”
编者按：从进入高校开始，人生就迎来一个接一个的多项选择，无论是研究方向，还是职业发展，每一步的前进都蕴藏着无限考量。许多人向往稳定的工作生活，而微软亚洲研究院系统与网络组研究员陈琪最渴望的，却是未来的“不确定性”。在本期的“科学匠人”中，陈琪将以一位充满活力的女性科学研究者的视角，分享自己在系统研究与职业生涯中的加速秘籍。 那是2015年的初夏，毕业季的离愁还没有到来，数以百万计的高校毕业生怀揣简...
Microsoft makes AI debugging and visualization tool TensorWatch open source
| Shital Shah, Roland Fernandez, Steven Drucker, Maxim Lukiyanov, and Susan Dumais
The rise of deep learning is accompanied by ever-increasing model complexity, larger datasets, and longer training times for models. When working on novel concepts, researchers often need to understand why training metrics are trending the way they are. So far,…