Project Triton and the physics of sound with Dr. Nikunj Raghuvanshi
Episode 68, March 20, 2019 - Today, Dr. Raghuvanshi talks about the unique challenges of simulating realistic sound on a budget (both money and CPU), explains how classic ideas in concert hall acoustics need a fresh take for complex games…
In the news | eWeek
Post-Quantum Cryptography Becoming Relevant in Pre-Quantum World
Dr. Brian LaMacchia from Microsoft Research said that “large-scale quantum computers capable of breaking RSA and ECC public-key cryptography will exist within the next 10 to 15 years. The work that Microsoft Research is doing with DigiCert and Utimaco is…
Advancing Human-Centered AI
| Eric Horvitz
We’re excited about the formal launch of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on Monday, March 18th. We resonate with Fei-Fei Li, John Etchemendy, and other leaders at Stanford on the promise of taking an interdisciplinary approach to…
Towards universal language embeddings
| Jianfeng Gao
Language embedding is a process of mapping symbolic natural language text (for example, words, phrases and sentences) to semantic vector representations. This is fundamental to deep learning approaches to natural language understanding (NLU). It is highly desirable to learn language…
In the news | NVIDIA Developer News Center
Microsoft Advancing AI-Powered Cloud Speech Using GPU Inference
Delivering speech-driven recommendations in real time with NVIDIA GPU Inference When you ask your phone a question, you don’t just want the right answer. You want the right answer, right now. The answer to this seemingly simple question requires an…
Awards | Microsoft News Centre UK
Simon Peyton Jones appointed chair of National Centre for Computing Education
Simon Peyton Jones, principal researcher at Microsoft and one of Britain’s leading computer scientists, was appointed chair of the Government’s new National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE), which works to improve the teaching of computer science in schools. He will…
Researchers seek to simplify the complex in cloud computing
From February 26–28, researchers gathered in Boston for the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), one of the top conferences in the networking and systems field. Microsoft, a silver sponsor of the event, was represented by…
Programming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips
Episode 67, March 13, 2019 - Today, Dr. Phillips talks about the challenges and rewards inherent in reverse engineering biological systems to see how they perform information processing. He also explains what we can learn from stressed out bacteria, and…
In the news | 12-App
The glasses will replace the smartphone
Describe our readers your office. Is there still a PC, or do you only have the Hololens glasses? We still have screens. I think it will be some time before the Hololens will replace my laptop. Frontline workers are currently…