在科学“法师们”的眼中，科研合作有怎样的魔力？
编者按：30年前，微软公司创始人比尔·盖茨设想有朝一日电脑将会看、听、读和学习，并以此为目标在1991年创立了微软研究院，专注于前沿技术的研究和创新。30年后的今天，我们步入了智能时代，比尔·盖茨当初对电脑的设想已经成真。30年间，微软研究院的科学家们是如何相互合作，一步一步将想法变为现实的？ 在庆祝微软研究院成立30周年的系列活动中，微软研究院以“Generations of inspirati...
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Satellites Are Spotting the Beached Whales We Never Would Have Found
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Microsoft, the satellite company Maxar, and other public- and private-sector partners are developing a system that automatically identifies marine mammals in satellite images. Called GAIA (Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Animals), the project aims…
微软亚洲研究院副院长刘铁岩博士获选2021 ACM Fellow
今天，国际计算机学会（Association for Computing Machinery，简称ACM）公布了2021年度ACM Fellow名单，以表彰来自世界各地高校、企业和研究机构的研究人员，在算法、计算机科学教育、密码学、数据安全和隐私、医疗信息学以及移动和网络系统等领域的贡献。微软亚洲研究院副院长刘铁岩博士因其在机器学习算法及应用方面所做出的卓越贡献获选 2021 ACM Fellow...
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DeepSpeed: Advancing MoE inference and training to power next-generation AI scale
| DeepSpeed Team and Andrey Proskurin
In the last three years, the largest trained dense models have increased in size by over 1,000 times, from a few hundred million parameters to over 500 billion parameters in Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (MT-NLG). Improvements in model quality with size…
Awards | ACM
Four Microsoft researchers named as 2021 ACM Fellows
Four Microsoft researchers were among those honored for 2021: Nikolaj Bjorner, Tie-Yan Liu, Ryen White, and Tom Zimmermann. ACM Fellows includes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to…
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Why games may not be the best benchmark for AI
Microsoft believes in the power of gaming as a platform for AI, pointing to Project Paidia. “With projects like this, we’re showing how AI is shifting from competitive applications to being used to empower players to achieve more,” Sam Devlin…
ACM/IEEE Fellow邱锂力博士担任微软亚洲研究院（上海）负责人
2022年1月17日，中国北京——微软亚洲研究院宣布，无线及移动网络领域的国际顶级专家邱锂力博士正式加入微软亚洲研究院，担任副院长一职，主要负责微软亚洲研究院（上海）的研究工作，以及与产学研各界的合作。加入微软亚洲研究院之前，邱锂力博士在美国得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校担任计算机系教授，并担任国际计算机学会无线及移动系统专委（ACM SIGMOBILE）的主席。 对于邱锂力博士的加入，微软亚洲研究院院长...
Podcast: Collaborating to Develop a Low-cost Keratoconus Diagnostic Solution. With Dr. Kaushik Murali and Dr. Mohit Jain
Episode 011 | January 18, 2022 Keratoconus is a severe eye disease that affects the cornea, causing it to become thin and develop a conical bulge. Keratoconus, if undiagnosed and untreated, can lead to partial or complete blindness in…