星桥启航 | 毕业季：学长学姐请回答！
你是否手握名校offer但计划延期入学，想拥有一段心无旁骛的研究经历？你是否正在思考如何通过间隔年提高自己的科研竞争力？你是否还在规划自己的未来想听听过来人的建议？ 又是一年毕业季小编为大家找到了三位微软亚洲研究院“星桥计划”优秀的学长学姐或许可以从他们的故事和经历中找到你心中问题的答案 王芷若：首先微软亚洲研究院是一个很好的科研平台，不同领域的优秀的研究员都在这里，有很多学习和成长的机会；同时，...
MoCapAct: Training humanoid robots to “Move Like Jagger”
| Nolan Wagener, Andrey Kolobov, Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Ricky Loynd, Ching-An Cheng, and Matthew Hausknecht
What would it take to get humanoid, bipedal robots to dance like Mick Jagger? Indeed, for something more mundane, what does it take to get them to simply stand still? Sit down? Walk? Move in myriads of other ways many…
铸星闪耀 | 姚迪：与优秀年轻学者互相激发，做顶天立地的研究
编者按：微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”旨在发掘和助力新一代青年学者，使其成为科研创新能力突出、走在世界科技前沿的学术带头人。无论是与领域内顶尖研究员合作的机会，还是最新、最丰富的数据集和强大的支持资源，抑或是产业界独有的实际应用场景，都吸引着青年才俊们来到微软亚洲研究院探索领域内前沿新知。 年轻、开拓、探索，是铸星计划的关键词；合作、创新、成就，是每个学术新星发光闪耀的必经之途。通过“铸星计划”，来自...
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Microsoft’s AirSim uses virtual world to prepare aircraft for real life challenges
Microsoft’s Project AirSim, a new platform to safely build, train and test autonomous aircraft through high-fidelity simulation, offers developers a “unique” opportunity to use a scalable system that ensures their models can meet real-world challenges, Ganesh Rao, general manager at…
In the news | IEEE Spectrum
Supercomputer Emulator: AI’s New Role in Science
Microsoft’s head of AI4Science sees machine learning partially supplanting simulation. Artificial intelligence has become an indispensable tool in many scientists’ lives, such that its use by researchers now has its own moniker—AI4Science—used by conferences and laboratories. Last month, Microsoft announced its own…
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5 takeaways from the Future of Rural Health Care Summit
Digital health experts from the public and private sectors gathered Tuesday at Sanford Health’s Summit on the Future of Rural Health Care. The event, hosted by the Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based health system, featured a lineup of speakers from big…
In the news | Fierce Healthcare
Rural America is fertile ground for healthcare innovation, experimentation, tech leaders say
Rural health systems and hospitals are poised to be the next hubs of tech innovation, leveraging digital health and virtual care to serve patients across thousands of square miles and over state lines.
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Microsoft is teaching computers to understand cause and effect
Causal machine learning with Microsoft's next-best-question model could replace AB testing to help you make better business decisions. AI that analyzes data to help you make decisions is set to be an increasingly big part of business tools, and the…
邓攀的“贪心”算法：从生物跨界到计算机是什么体验？
编者按：科研之路并非繁花似锦，很多时候是在一条没有脚印的道路上探索未知。科研之路应该怎么走？如何抓住机遇实现转弯？微软亚洲研究院主管研究员邓攀在以《人生的“贪心”算法》为题的演讲中，分享了自己从本科毕业到现在一路走来的经历与收获。从生物跨界到计算机，邓攀是如何做到“内心有谱，丝毫不慌”的？遇到机会，她又是如何竭尽全力把握住每一个可能的？一起来看邓攀怎样编写了自己人生的“贪心”算法吧！ 以下地址可观...