Microsoft Research Summit 2022: What’s Next for Technology and Humanity?
| Ashley Llorens
Today, we are experiencing waves of breakthroughs in computing that are transforming just about every aspect of our lives. Artificial intelligence is changing the way we develop and create. Human language technologies are revolutionizing the workflows of healthcare professionals. Deep…
CCF: Bringing efficiency and usability to a decentralized trust model
| CCF Team
Online trust has come a long way since the time of centralized databases, where information was concentrated in one location and the security and validation of that information relied on a core set of people and systems. While convenient, this…
Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) is one of the top academic conferences in the field of computer systems. The 16th OSDI was held from July 11 to 13, 2022. A total of 253 papers were submitted, and 49 were…
In the news | Novo Nordisk News Center
Novo Nordisk and Microsoft collaborate to accelerate drug discovery and development using big data and artificial intelligence
Novo Nordisk and Microsoft have entered a new strategic collaboration to combine Microsoft’s computational services, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) with Novo Nordisk’s drug discovery, development and data science capabilities.
Awards | Share the Tensor Tea: How Databases can Leverage the Machine Learning Ecosystem
Best Demonstration Award, VLDB 2022
微软宣布周礼栋博士升任微软公司全球资深副总裁
微软公司宣布，微软亚洲研究院院长周礼栋博士升任为微软公司全球资深副总裁。 周礼栋博士现任微软亚洲研究院院长，全面负责微软亚洲研究院在中国及亚太地区的研究工作以及与学术界和产业界的合作。 作为系统研究领域首屈一指的专家，多年来他一直专注于推动可靠、可信及可扩展的分布式系统的理论研究和实践探索，并致力于促进中国以及整个亚洲地区的计算机系统研究与合作。作为微软在设计和开发大规模分布式系统方面的重要技术带...
Website: https://computer-vision-in-the-wild.github.io/eccv-2022/ (opens in new tab) Workshop: The research community has recently witnessed a trend in building transferable visual models that can effortlessly adapt to a wide range of downstream computer vision (CV) and multimodal (MM) tasks. We are organizing…
A game-theoretic approach to provably correct and scalable offline RL
| Ching-An Cheng, Tengyang Xie, and Nan Jiang
Despite increasingly widespread use of machine learning (ML) in all aspects of our lives, a broad class of scenarios still rely on automation designed by people, not artificial intelligence (AI). In real-world applications that involve making sequences of decisions with…
In the news | University of Southampton, Optoelectronics Research Centre
Dr Francesca Parmigiani PhD in the Optical Fibre Communications Group, 2006
"Being able to work in a very dynamic environment, with world-class experts in many aspects of photonics, allowed me to flourish and succeed as a well-recognised scientific expert in my field, opening many career doors." What were your highlights of…