Awards | Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs
Mengting Wan, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht and Jaime Teevan awarded KDD Best Paper Award 2022
A team of Microsoft researchers led by Mengting Wan and Jing Ma, former intern, along with fellow researchers Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, and Jaime Teevan, won the KDD Best Paper Award 2022 for their paper Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs.
In the news | WIRED
The Case for Collective Intelligence
Our current forms of democracy are only early and highly imperfect manifestations of collective intelligence—coordination systems that incorporate and process decentralized, agentic, and meaningful decisionmaking across individuals and communities to produce best-case decisions for the collective.
微软亚洲研究院与CCF携手十六年，打造国际化学术共同体
编者按：从1992年到2022年，微软扎根中国30年，与中国的信息产业共同发展壮大。而伴随着微软在中国的不断成长，微软亚洲研究院也已发展成为具有世界级影响力的计算机基础和应用研究机构。能够取得这样的成绩，除了微软亚洲研究院一直对科研秉持“长期主义”、持续创新突破外，也离不开与全球顶级高校、科研机构及企业的合作。其中，微软亚洲研究院与中国计算机学会（CCF）的合作已有十六载，双方不断推动领域内的交流...
LaTTe paper (opens in new tab) and video (opens in new tab) | Trajectory Transformer paper (opens in new tab) and video (opens in new tab) | Github code (opens in new tab) Language is the most intuitive way for…
In the news | ACM
danah boyd featured in the “People of ACM”
The August issue of People of ACM featured danah boyd, Partner Researcher in the New York City Lab. She is the author of "It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” and "Participatory Culture in a Networked Era”. In 2013,…
In the news | MICROSOFT AZURE BLOG
Security for next generation telecommunication networks
It’s clear that attacks on the national communications infrastructure will occur with much greater sophistication than ever before. Because of this, we continue to develop our networks and systems with security as our first principle and we stay constantly vigilant. To these…
AI、机器学习在材料科学研究中能发挥哪些作用？
编者按：近年来，越来越多的实践证明，AI 是一项可以用于发现规律的关键技术，除了工程技术领域，AI 也为自然科学提供了新的科学发现工具。科学家们利用 AI 技术、基于大量高通量数据分析，不仅能加速实验进程，甚至还可以从数据中总结和发现尚未被人类知晓的科学规律。微软亚洲研究院很早就看到了这一趋势，并在过去几年中，陆续开展了 AI+生物学、AI+环境科学、AI+物理学等方向的研究。 近日，微软亚洲研究...
“推荐系统” 值得一读的五本书
编者按：随着科学技术的飞速发展，数据资源呈现海量化、多元化的特征，但人们的生活也面临着信息冗余和过载的问题。如何在网购时挑选到心仪的商品？如何在出行中找到吃喝玩乐的推荐？如何在纷繁的资讯中找到感兴趣的内容…… 在大数据时代，人们日常的工作休闲都离不开推荐系统（Recommender Systems）的助力。 为了帮助大家更好地了解、学习推荐系统领域的相关知识，我们邀请了微软亚洲研究院的研究员们推荐...
Language is the most intuitive way for us to express how we feel and what we want. However, despite recent advancements in artificial intelligence, it is still very hard to control a robot using natural language instructions. Free-form commands such…