Efficiently and effectively scaling up language model pretraining for best language representation model on GLUE and SuperGLUE
| Jianfeng Gao and Saurabh Tiwary
As part of Microsoft AI at Scale (opens in new tab), the Turing family of NLP models are being used at scale across Microsoft to enable the next generation of AI experiences. Today, we are happy to announce that the…
Awards | The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (Supercomputing'21)
Deepak Narayanan and Amar Phanishayee receive best student paper award
The Super Computing 2021 organizers selected Deepak Narayanan and Amar Phanishayee's paper, Efficient Large-Scale Language Model Training on GPU Clusters Using Megatron-LM, as the best student paper for its quality and potential impact.
Awards | InfoSys
Neeraj Kayal awarded Infosys 2021 Prize for Mathematical Sciences
The Infosys Prize 2021 in Mathematical Sciences is awarded to Dr. Neeraj Kayal of Microsoft Research lab, Bengaluru, for his outstanding contributions to Computational Complexity. His extensive, innovative work on algebraic computation includes the development of deep lower bound techniques…
Toward nanoscale DNA writers: Unlocking scalable DNA data writing technology
| Karin Strauss and Bichlien Nguyen
Editor’s note: The researchers would like to acknowledge co-authors Christopher Takahashi, Gagan Gupta, Jake Smith, Richard Rouse, Paul Berndt, Sergey Yekhanin, David Ward, Siena Ang, Patrick Garvan, Hsing-Yeh Parker, Rob Carlson, Douglas Carmean, and Luis Ceze for their contributions to…
Awards | ACM SIGCOMM
ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Test of Time Award
"Data-Center TCP (DCTCP)", by Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David Maltz, Jitendra Padhye, Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta, and Murari Sridharan, in ACM SIGCOMM 2010.
Awards | The Top Innovators
The Top Innovators in Agriculture 2021
Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Azure, earns a "Highly Commended" rating on the Top Innovators in Agriculture list 2021 for Microsoft FarmBeats.
In the news | The Hill
How human-centered tech can beat COVID-19 through contact tracing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working on a proposal to massively scale-up testing and contact tracing to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. This effort will involve identifying all of those infected with the coronavirus and notifying everyone…
We need to take a good hard look at the problems we’re solving before we get into solutioning. Yes, coming up with solutions is the interesting and exciting piece but once you’re on this path it’s very hard to turn…
In the news | Talking Beats
The American Health Apparatus and Public Health Transparency with Microsoft’s Dr. Jim Weinstein
"As I scientist I ask-- where's the data on COVID vaccines? How many women, how many men, how many shots? Which arm? Did it cause their diabetes to get better? Did it affect their time off of work? What kind…