作者：王婧雯，微软亚洲研究院学术合作经理 倘若在互联网上检索“计算机专业”，与“男孩子读计算机专业有哪些优越性”相对应的，则是“女生能读计算机专业吗”。这体现了一个普遍认知，“计算机”被认为与男性更为相配。 但是，女性真的不适合计算机吗？身边的女性研究员、工程师已经给了我答案，她们都技术扎实、勤勉努力，不断推动整个领域向前进步。与此同时，许多研究也表明，要推动计算机领域的创新与可持续发展，提升性别...
Visual recognition systems are typically trained to predict a fixed set of predetermined object categories in a specific domain, which limits their usability in real-world applications. How to build a model that generalizes to various concepts and domains with minimal…
Awards | PLDI'22
PLDI’22 Distinguished Paper Award
Ryan Beckett (Microsoft), along with coauthors Michael Greenberg (Stevens Institute of Tech) and Eric Campbell (Cornell) received the Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI'22 for their publication Kleene Algebra Modulo Theories: A Framework for Concrete KATs.
In the news | ASA Workshop
ASA workshop at PLDI
While many aspects of "AI for Code / ML for code" research area has been explored, the success of static analysis in identifying various software bugs creates a unique opportunity to explore the area of AI for Code. Along with…
Podcast: HAMS- Using Smartphones to Make Roads Safer. With Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan and Dr. Akshay Nambi
Road safety is a very serious public health issue across the world. Estimates put the traffic related death toll at approximately 1.35 million fatalities every year, and the World Health Organization ranks road injuries in the top 10 leading causes…
ICLR 2022 highlights from Microsoft Research Asia: Expanding the horizon of machine learning techniques and applications
| Shun Zheng, Jiang Bian, Tie-Yan Liu, Li Zhao, Tao Qin, Yue Wang, Dongsheng Li, Yuqing Yang, and Xufang Luo
ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) (opens in new tab) is recognized as one of the top conferences in the field of deep learning. Many influential papers on artificial intelligence, statistics, and data science—as well as important application fields such…
In the news | AI - Cognitive Services Blog
New technical research is advancing Azure’s Neural Text-to-Speech service
Neural Text-to-Speech (Neural TTS), a powerful speech synthesis capability of Azure Cognitive Services, enables users to convert text to lifelike speech. It is used in various scenarios including voice assistant, content read-aloud capabilities, accessibility tools, and more. Azure Neural TTS…
编者按：AI 合成语音如今已经屡见不鲜，然而在用户听来却不能让人产生与真人对话和阅读般的沉浸感。不过，微软亚洲研究院和微软 Azure 语音团队近日联合推出的全新端到端语音合成模型 NaturalSpeech，在 CMOS 测试中首次达到了真人说话水准。这将近一步提升微软 Azure 中合成语音的水平，让所有合成声音都惟妙惟肖。 文本到语音合成（Text to Speech，TTS）是一项根据文本...
Amsterdam, Breakfast, Museums, and Soundscape - the perfect weekend! Hi, I’m Frazier from the Soundscape Team. One of my friends is going on a city break to Amsterdam next month and asked me for some tips of things to do…