Clouds, catapults and life after the end of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger
Episode 23, May 9, 2018 - Dr. Burger talks about how advances in AI and deep machine learning have placed new acceleration demands on current hardware and computer architecture, offers some observations about the demise of Moore’s Law, and shares…
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Butler Lampson inducted into The Royal Society
Butler Lampson, a computing legend and Microsoft researcher who helped create the world’s first personal computer, tablets, printers and word processing programs, was invited to join The Royal Society (opens in new tab) – the UK’s national science academy, with a fellowship…
Customized neural machine translation with Microsoft Translator
Released in preview this week at Build 2018, the new Microsoft Translator custom feature lets users customize neural machine translation systems. These customizations can be applied to both text and speech translation workflows. Microsoft Translator released neural machine translation (NMT)…
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Farming’s most important crop may be the knowledge harvested by drones and the intelligent edge
A new partnership between Microsoft and leading drone maker DJI builds on the work both companies are doing with data and agriculture that could make it easier and more affordable for farmers to quickly get the information they need to…
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Microsoft Build goes gaga for AI: Azure Machine Learning and beyond
Machine learning algorithms are among those that FPGAs can turbo-charge. And that's how an FPGA-based architecture for deployed ML models leads to a service called Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models.
Microsoft promises fast and flexible FPGA chips will unlock new AI abilities for customers using its Azure cloud-computing service.
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Microsoft* Turbocharges AI with Intel FPGAs. You Can, Too.
Today, Microsoft* announced a public preview of Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models powered by Project Brainwave*, a new AI inferencing service. The service uses Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs, configured as “soft DNN processing units” highly-tuned to the ResNet-50 image…
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4 Big Takeaways from Satya Nadella’s Talk at Microsoft Build
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is trying to distinguish the business technology giant from its technology brethren by focusing on digital privacy. That’s one of the takeaways from Nadella’s opening talk on Monday from Microsoft’s annual Build conference for developers in…