Awards | ACM SIGecom
Nicole Immorlica receives SIGecom 2023 Test-of-Time Award
The ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award recognizes the author or authors of an influential paper or series of papers published between ten and twenty-five years ago that has significantly impacted research or applications exemplifying the interplay of economics and…
TLA+ Foundation aims to bring math-based software modeling to the mainstream
TLA+ is a high level, open-source, math-based language for modeling computer programs and systems–especially concurrent and distributed ones. It comes with tools to help eliminate fundamental design errors, which are hard to find and expensive to fix once they have been…
In the news | Microsoft WorkLab
The New Performance Equation in the Age of AI
Amid economic uncertainty and the transition to flexible work, leaders are under pressure to increase productivity in flexible work and do more with less. At the same time, next-generation AI is changing the game for how organizations gain a competitive advantage. In this…
作者：罗翀 编者按：国际学习表征会议 ICLR（International Conference on Learning Representations），被公认为当前最具影响力的机器学习国际学术会议之一。在今年的 ICLR 2023 大会上，微软亚洲研究院发表了在机器学习鲁棒性、负责任的人工智能等领域的最新研究成果。其中，微软亚洲研究院与韩国科学技术院（KAIST）在双方学术合作框架下的科研合作...
Unifying learning from preferences and demonstration via a ranking game for imitation learning
| Harshit Sikchi, Akanksha Saran, Wonjoon Goo, and Scott Niekum
For many people, opening door handles or moving a pen between their fingers is a movement that happens multiple times a day, often without much thought. For a robot, however, these movements aren’t always so easy. In reinforcement learning, robots…
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
The world needs cybersecurity experts – Microsoft expands skilling effort with a focus on women
Today, Microsoft is expanding our Cybersecurity Skills Initiative to Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, and Spain, and delivering grants to nonprofits to help skill people for the cybersecurity workforce. With this expansion, we are now working in 28 countries around the world, partnering with…
Automatic post-deployment management of cloud applications
| Nagarajan Natarajan, Lei Zhao, Rodrigo Fonseca, Tatiana Racheva, and Yogesh Bansal
In the first two blog posts in this series, we presented our vision for Cloud Intelligence/AIOps (AIOps) research, and scenarios where innovations in AI technologies can help build and operate complex cloud platforms and services effectively and efficiently at scale.…
Microsoft at NSDI 2023: A commitment to advancing networking and distributed systems
| Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft has made significant contributions to the prestigious USENIX NSDI'23 (opens in new tab) conference, which brings together experts in computer networks and distributed systems. A silver sponsor (opens in new tab) for the conference, Microsoft is a leader in…
Cryptography in the Cryostat
Michael Freedman At a disarmament conference of 1932 Einstein described our technological vs. social maturity as a razor blade in the hand of a three-year-old. Ninety years has led to little gains in our social maturity and vast expansions of…