科学智能（AI4Science）赋能科学发现的第五范式
未来十年，深度学习注定将会给自然科学带来变革性的影响。其结果具有潜在的深远意义，可能会极大地提高我们在差异巨大的空间和时间尺度上对自然现象进行建模和预测的能力。这种能力是否代表着科学发现新范式的曙光？ 图灵奖获得者、前微软技术院士 Jim Gray 用“四种范式”描述了科学发现的历史演变。第一范式的起源可以追溯到几千年前，它纯粹是经验性的，基于对自然现象的直接观察。虽然在这些观察中，有许多规律是显...
AI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery
| Christopher Bishop
Editor’s note, Oct. 20, 2023 – The post was updated to remove information related to the Amsterdam lab, as those details have since changed. Over the coming decade, deep learning looks set to have a transformational impact on the natural…
AI与教育的深度融合，究竟什么是核心问题？
编者按：AI+教育是近年来教育行业乃至整个社会都非常关注的热点话题。相比于 AI 在其他领域的落地应用，AI+教育的进展一直相对缓慢。作为未来教育领域发展的大势所趋，AI+教育到底面临怎样艰难的挑战？ 此前，微软亚洲研究院与华东师范大学就基于双方在各自领域的领先优势展开战略合作，希望依托计算机技术推进教育与人工智能的深度融合。目前，双方的合作已经形成了在学术界与产业界均具有引导性的创新研究成果，中...
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Anthem for All
The Microsoft Research Enable group collaborated with the Invictus Games and injured veterans to create a moving new musical anthem of hope using adaptive technologies.
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Chicagoans breathe the most polluted air of the year on Independence Day
The hours between 9 p.m. and midnight on July 4, 2021, ranked as the most intensely polluted hours the city experienced at any point over the past year, according to analysis of data on Chicago’s air quality. The new analysis…
Awards | APNet '22
APNet ’22 Best Paper Award
Francis Y. Yan, along with several coauthors received the Best Paper Award at APNet '22 for their publication "OpenNetLab: Open Platform for RL-based Congestion Control for Real-Time Communications."
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 new Climate Research Initiative is a multi-disciplinary collaboration project for researchers
While the US Supreme Court restricts the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to curb emissions in the United States, Microsoft just launched its Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) collective to "accelerate cutting-edge research and transformative innovation in climate science and technology."
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Microsoft Targets Carbon Removal With Climate Research Effort
Microsoft Corp. has launched a climate research effort in a bid to build a network of participants to tackle some key problems affecting the environment. The Microsoft Climate Research Initiative will at first focus on carbon reduction and removal, carbon accounting and environmental resilience, the…