Students of all ages struggle to understand various math concepts. So, as part of a larger effort across multiple product teams at Microsoft, the Math team has created several tools to help every classroom become more inclusive and to make…
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Project Freta: Microsoft’s Cloud-based Memory Analysis Engine
Ah, the sweet days of running your memory sample through volatility. It’s not over yet — but Microsoft has done an amazing job at releasing a new service, which can perform a full-blown volatile memory analysis of a Linux system,…
Researchers use a strand-displacing DNA polymerase to do biocomputing
| Shalin Shah and Yuan-Jyue Chen
All around us, biochemical systems are regulating a variety of natural processes, from our body’s ability to protect our skin through the timely production of melanin to plants’ ability to convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen using sunlight. Replicating…
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The first 200 days of COVID-19
A Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it [1]. Santayana forgot to mention that those that do remember are condemned to watch others repeat it.
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HOMER: Provable Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
Last week at ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra had a paper on a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that solves three key problems in RL: (i) global exploration, (ii) decoding latent dynamics, and (iii) optimizing a given…
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COVID-19 unraveled the workforce. Here’s how to fix it
"We are living through the tech-enabled unraveling of full-time employment itself," says anthropologist Mary L. Gray. As the pandemic exposes and accelerates the shift to on-demand online labor, Gray takes us inside the jobs being created to solve the problems…
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Microsoft Research develops AI-based fix for blurred pictures due to Under-Display cameras
After the success of the punch-hole front-facing camera the next major development for selfie cameras is fully under-display cameras, where the cameras are behind a transparent OLED screen which would still work as a normal display when not active, but…
铸星闪耀 | 邢佳：我在微软亚洲研究院做人工智能×环境科学的破壁者
不久前，2019 年“铸星计划”项目访问学者、来自清华大学环境学院的邢佳老师给我们带来了重磅好消息——他在访问期间与微软亚洲研究院副院长刘铁岩、首席研究员秦涛、研究员郑书新等合作的论文，已被环境科学与工程领域顶级期刊《环境科学与技术》（Environmental Science & Technology）接收。 当前，交叉融合已成为科学研究的大势所趋，三部委联合印发的“双一流”建设指导意见...
A path to personalization: Using ML to subtype patients receiving digital mental health interventions
| Danielle Belgrave and Anja Thieme
Mental health experiences vary widely from individual to individual. Because of this, effective treatment is about identifying the unique set of tools that will help a person manage their mental health productively. And that rarely happens overnight. People experiencing symptoms…