Awards | MacArthur Foundation
Mary Gray awarded 2020 MacArthur Fellow
Mary L. Gray, Senior Researcher, Anthropologist and Media Scholar, was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, with 20 others in 2020. Mary is investigating the ways in which labor, identity, and human rights are transformed by the digital economy. Cecilia Conrad,…
Awards | International Conference on Software Engineering
Sumit Gulwani and Ashish Tiwari receive ICSE 2020 Most Influential Paper Award
Sumit Gulwani and Ashish Tiwari are this year’s recipients of the ICSE 2020 Most Influential Paper Award from ICSE 2010 for their paper, Oracle-Guided Component-Based Program Synthesis (May 2010). The paper won this award because it has made a significant impact…
In the news | Microsoft Pulse
East Limburg Hospital Health Bot: a chatbot as a screening procedure
Hospitals have been under a lot of pressure since the outbreak of COVID-19. In order to protect both patients and staff as best they can, and to safeguard the functioning of the hospital, the East Limburg Hospital (ZOL) in Genk,…
Archai can design your neural network with state-of-the-art neural architecture search (NAS)
| Shital Shah and Debadeepta Dey
The goal of neural architecture search (NAS) (opens in new tab) is to have computers automatically search for the best-performing neural networks. Recent advances in NAS methods have made it possible to build problem-specific networks that are faster, more compact,…
Awards | Muse: Multi-query Event Trend Aggregation
Best short paper award in CIKM’20
In the news | Microsoft Pulse
How Capio is using interoperability and conversational intelligence to transform healthcare
“Our doctors and staff were running faster and faster. Like mice on a wheel trying to keep up,” recalls Niklas Sundler, Technology Innovation Director at Ramsay Santé and Capio, as he explains how COVID-19 changed the rules of healthcare delivery…
While technology has helped fill in the gaps that remote work and distance learning have created, humans still crave face-to-face interactions, just like their ancient ancestors. Informed by his time studying and observing primates, our author wonders when, and if,…
CodeXGLUE: A benchmark dataset and open challenge for code intelligence
According to Evans Data Corporation (opens in new tab), there are 23.9 million professional developers in 2019, and the population is expected to reach 28.7 million in 2024. With the growing population of developers, code intelligence, which aims to leverage…
代码智能新基准数据集CodeXGLUE来袭，多角度衡量模型优劣
编者按：代码智能（code intelligence）目的是让计算机具备理解和生成代码的能力，并利用编程语言知识和上下文进行推理，支持代码检索、补全、翻译、纠错、问答等场景。以深度学习为代表的人工智能算法，近年来在理解自然语言上取得了飞跃式的突破，代码智能也因此获得了越来越多的关注。该领域一旦有突破，将大幅度推动 AI 在软件开发场景的落地。 一直以来，微软秉承为开发者赋能的使命。在2020年 B...