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Juan Lavista Ferres from Microsoft’s AI for Good Research Lab
Juan Lavista Ferres, Chief Scientist and Lab Director at Microsoft’s AI for Good Research Lab, speaks with Humanitarian AI Today's host Sarah Spencer about how his team is aiding NGOs by leveraging data to address a variety of global humanitarian…
PPE: A fast and provably efficient RL algorithm for exogenous noise
| Dipendra Misra and Yonathan Efroni
Picture a person walking in a park by a pond. The surrounding environment contains a number of moving objects that change the quality of the environment: clouds moving to hide the sun, altering the quality of light; ducks gliding across…
Tommy Guy and Kidus Asfaw We noticed an odd case of nondeterminism in Spark’s randomSplit function, which is often used to generate test/train data splits for Machine Learning training scripts. There are other posts, notably this one (opens in new tab) that…
矣晓沅：“轮椅上的学霸”，用科技推动无障碍发展
编者按：今天“科学匠人”栏目的主人公名叫矣晓沅，他用实际行动证明了在轮椅上一样可以书写精彩的人生。从清华校园到微软亚洲研究院，他是如何开启自己的学术生涯？对于未来的研究方向和职业规划他有怎样的思考？科技又将如何推动无障碍领域的发展？让我们一起走近微软亚洲研究院研究员矣晓沅。 在2022年2月19日举行的2021 CCF 颁奖典礼上，矣晓沅从颁奖嘉宾的手中接过了“CCF 优秀博士学位论文奖”的奖杯和...
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Q&A: Making Earth-friendly electronics
The very components that make electronics fast and easy to use also make their disposal an environmental nightmare. Components of smartphones, computers and even kitchen appliances contain heavy metals and other compounds that are toxic to us and harmful to…
WWW 2022 | 一文解读互联网技术国际顶会最新方向
编者按：国际万维网会议（Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference，简称 WWW）是互联网技术领域最重要的国际会议之一。今年的 WWW 将于4月25-29日在法国里昂以线上会议的形式召开。本届会议共收到了1822篇长文投稿，论文录用率为17.7%，微软亚洲研究院也有多篇论文入选。今天我们为大家精选了其中的六篇进行简要介绍，研究主题关键词包括个性化新闻推荐、图异配性建...
EcoPod @EarthDay Weekend Chicago
Experience the Microsoft Urban Innovations EcoPod @EarthDay Weekend Chicago April 23 and April 24, 2022.
Don’t let data drift derail edge compute machine learning models
| Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Yuanchao Shu, Nikolaos Karianakis, Kevin Hsieh, and Victor Bahl
Edge computing has come of age, with deployments enabling many applications that process data from IoT sensors and cameras. In 2017, we identified the symbiotic relationship between edge computing and video analytics in an article (opens in new tab), noting…