微软发布量子计算最新成果，证实拓扑量子比特的物理机理
编者按：量子计算有望帮助我们解决人类所面临的一些最严峻的挑战。然而，在这个新生领域，我们仍处于发展的早期阶段。目前，在量子计算机的帮助下，研究人员已经能够开展一些有趣的研究项目，但他们仍然受制于系统规模的不足，无法开展更多研究。现有的量子计算机所依赖的量子比特有很多类型，但迄今为止还没有哪一类能够扩展到足够多的量子比特，以充分发挥量子计算的潜力。 微软正在采用一种更具挑战性但最终更有前景的方法来扩...
A compilation of research being done at Microsoft on accelerating biodiversity surveys with AI We apply machine learning tools to a variety of image sources – including motion-triggered camera traps, aerial cameras, and microphones – to accelerate ecologists’ workflows. Our…
编者按：2021年，获得 ICCV 最佳论文奖的 Swin Transformer，通过在广泛的视觉问题上证明 Transformer 架构的有效性，加速了计算机视觉领域基本模型架构的变革。2021年末，微软亚洲研究院的研究员们又进一步提出了 Swin Transformer v2.0 版本，新版本训练了迄今为止最大的稠密视觉模型，并在多个主流视觉任务上大大刷新了记录，相关论文也已被 CVPR 2...
AAAI is one of the top academic conferences in the field of Artificial Intelligence and is hosted by the Association for the Advance of Artificial Intelligence. This year's AAAI conference was held from February 22 to March 1. More than…
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2022 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Significant New Researcher award goes to Mar Gonzalez-Franco
The 2022 IEEE VGTC Significant New Researcher Award goes to Mar Gonzalez-Franco of Microsoft, in recognition of her research and incipient leadership in the field of Virtual Reality and spatial computing. Her work has provided new insights on how people…
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Microsoft’s AI Tech Helps Blind Kids To Make Friends, Build Confidence
Tech giant Microsoft has developed a novel Artificial Intelligence-based technology that helps blind children and young people better understand their immediate social environment, interact with peers and gain confidence more easily.
Microsoft has demonstrated the underlying physics required to create a new kind of qubit
| Dr. Chetan Nayak
Quantum computing promises to help us solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges. Yet as an industry, we are still in the early days of discovering what’s possible. Today’s quantum computers are enabling researchers to do interesting work. However, these researchers…