2024技术回顾：Kevin Scott解读AI的变革力量
随着2024年即将结束，微软首席技术官 Kevin Scott 在他最新一期的《Behind the Tech》播客中回顾了2024年的技术发展，从创意、教育和技术转型三个维度出发，与多位嘉宾深入探讨了 AI 所带来的深远影响，并分享了他对技术未来的独到见解。 完整版播客： 播客链接：https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/behind-the-tech/year-in-r...
迈向Z级计算：Cloud4Science范式加速科学发现进程
编者按：传统超级计算机作为科学计算的核心支柱，在推动技术进步方面发挥了不可替代的作用，但随着科学智能时代下需求的多样化和复杂化，其扩展性和能效的局限逐渐显现。针对这一挑战，微软亚洲研究院的研究员提出了 Cloud4Science 的新范式，以云计算、人工智能和高性能计算技术的深度融合为核心，重新定义科学计算的架构，加速科学智能的研究进展。在此框架下，研究员们已对关键科学计算算法如 Stencil、...
AIOpsLab: Building AI agents for autonomous clouds
| Minghua Ma, Gagan Somashekar, Rujia Wang, Chetan Bansal, and Saravan Rajmohan
AIOpsLab is an open-source framework designed to evaluate and improve AI agents for cloud operations, offering standardized, scalable benchmarks for real-world testing, enhancing cloud system reliability.
Microsoft Research did extraordinary work this year, using AI and scientific research to make progress on real-world challenges like climate change, food security, global health, and human trafficking. Learn more.
Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness
| Ginny Badanes, Madeleine Daepp, and Robert Osazuwa Ness
As the “biggest election year in history” comes to an end, researchers Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness and Democracy Forward GM Ginny Badanes discuss AI’s impact on democracy, including Daepp and Ness’s research into the tech’s use in Taiwan…
Awards | IEEE Computer Society
Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE Fellow
Microsoft Research congratulates Yasuyuki Matsushita on being named a 2025 IEEE Fellow for his outstanding contributions to photometric 3D modeling and computational photography.
Research Focus: Week of December 16, 2024
NeoMem: hardware/software co-design for CXL-native memory tiering; Chimera: accurate retrosynthesis prediction by ensembling models with diverse inductive biases; GA4GH task execution API enables multicloud task execution.
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Announcing SPARROW: A Breakthrough AI Tool to Measure and Protect Earth’s Biodiversity in the Most Remote Places
SPARROW, developed by Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, is a solar-powered, AI-driven system for monitoring biodiversity in remote areas.
2025年六大AI趋势展望
随着2025年的临近，人工智能正逐步从辅助工具演变为工作与生活中不可或缺的伙伴。AI 驱动的代理（agent）将拥有更高的自主性来执行更多任务，从而提升人们的生活质量。人工智能在记忆与推理能力上的创新，也将助力人类社会寻找应对气候变化、医疗健康等重大挑战的新方法。而微软始终致力于帮助人们安全、可靠地构建与使用人工智能。 “人工智能已经将不可能变为可能，过去一年我们看到众多个人和组织从 AI 实验转...