The 2021 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship has attracted 157 outstanding PhD students from 50 top universities and institutions across Asia to apply. The applicants' research fields cover in computational science, hardware and software systems, human and machine intelligence, and perception,…
ACAV100M: Scaling up self-supervised audio-visual learning with automatically curated internet videos
| Yale Song
The natural association between visual observations and their corresponding sounds has exhibited powerful self-supervision signals for learning video representations, which makes the ever-growing amount of online video an attractive data source for self-supervised learning. However, online videos often provide imperfectly…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
America faces a cybersecurity skills crisis: Microsoft launches national campaign to help community colleges expand the cybersecurity workforce
The last year has brought unrelenting headlines about cybersecurity attacks. Foreign governments have tampered with the software supply chain, targeted on-premise servers, and hacked into sensitive government files. Criminal ransomware groups have attacked schools, penetrated hospitals and shut down a…
In the news | Data Center Frontier
Microsoft Explores Green Data Centers Made of Mushrooms, Algae
Microsoft has grabbed headlines with its “moonshot” research projects in data center technology, including storing cloud data in DNA and holograms and an undersea data module. This week Microsoft unveiled a new research project that rethinks data centers at a…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Supporting our customers on the path to net zero: The Microsoft cloud and decarbonization
Demand for data and digital services is expected to continue its exponential growth over the coming years, with global internet traffic projected to double by 2022[i]. The Microsoft cloud is the trusted cloud for everyday digital experiences at work and…
In the news | Fast Company
The data center of the future is made of algae bricks and runs on hydrogen fuel cells
Every year for the foreseeable future, Microsoft expects to build 50-100 new data centers to keep up with customer demand. That’s a challenge for a company that has a goal to soon be carbon negative—meaning it sequesters more carbon that…
Awards | ACM - SOSP
Daniel Berger receives SOSP 2021 Best Paper Award
Daniel Berger's paper, Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash, was selected as a best paper by the SOSP'21 organizers for its quality and potential impact.
2021年“微软学者”奖学金亚洲地区11人名单公布！
2021年“微软学者”奖学金共吸引了来自全亚洲50所顶尖研究型大学及机构的157名优秀博士生申请，申请者的研究领域广泛分布于计算科学、硬件与软件系统、人类与机器智能，及感知、识别与交互等领域。经过重重筛选，来自亚洲地区的11名优秀博士生最终被授予2021年“微软学者”称号，另有17名博士生获得提名奖。 本次“微软学者”奖学金的获得者们既脚踏实地也仰望星空：他们在认真探索科研的同时，怀揣着以科学、技...
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Charting the path towards sustainable AI with Azure Machine Learning resource metrics
Today, we are announcing a new set of resource metrics available in Azure Machine Learning to help customers understand the computational and energetic costs of their AI workloads across the machine learning lifecycle. Azure Machine Learning is a platform that…