打造一流创新环境：协作、开放、可持续
作者：周礼栋 “因缘相聚是起始，合众努力是进步，精诚协作是成功。” ——亨利·福特（Henry Ford） 毋庸置疑，人类是群居物种。早在两千多年前，亚里士多德便在其著述《政治学》里揭示了人类群居共利协作的趋向：个体组成家庭，家庭组成村落，村落组成城池，城池组成国家和社会。直到今天，从交响乐团的高超演奏到花样游泳队的优美表演，从流水线工人的默契配合到空中航班与地面塔台间的频繁交互，可以说，无所不在...
讲堂 | 刘铁岩：科研到底怎么做？什么是高质量研究？
编者按：科研，顾名思义，就是科学研究。小到生活用品，大到宇宙航天，生活中处处不缺由科学研究转化而来的成果。而在科学研究的背后，是一群默默无闻、专心学术的科学家们。从科研小白到科研大佬的科研之旅，这背后的故事，你了解多少？ 在 Ada Camp 2021 上，微软亚洲研究院副院长刘铁岩博士，就“科学研究“这个话题结合自身科研之路，以及这一路以来的心得体会，为大家分享了科学研究到底该怎么做、想做好科研...
如何利用深度学习优化大气污染物排放量估算？
编者按：全球碳排放问题亟待解决已是非常明确的科学共识，为了实现净零排放这一全球性目标，微软在2020年就提出了将在2030年实现碳负排放。近日，微软亚洲研究院与清华大学的研究员们共同合作，在环境与地球科学领域国际知名期刊 Geoscientific Model Development 上发表了题为 “Exploring Deep Learning for Air Pollutant Emissio...
The next 12 to 18 months will be a crucial period for individual organizations committed to change to make this transition by listening closely to employees and communicating clearly as they experiment with different ways of working. Here's what we…
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A snapshot of the future: Computing goes molecular with DNA-based similarity search from University of Washington and Microsoft researchers
Picture this: You are a researcher in the Molecular Information Systems Lab housed at the Paul G. Allen School. You and your labmates have developed a system for storing and retrieving digital images in synthetic DNA to demonstrate how this…
8 月 16 日至 8 月 20 日，微软亚洲研究院首届“未来由妳”Ada Camp 女生专属夏令营在线上成功举办，来自全国各大高校的 61 名女学生全程深度参与。本次 Ada Camp 旨在为计算机及相关领域的本科低年级女生提供了解科研前沿动态、与微软亚洲研究院研究员亲密交流的机会，从而激励她们勇敢追逐科研梦想。 本次 Ada Camp 设计了“女性榜样”“视野拓展”“揭秘科研生活”“科研能力提...
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Microsoft Translator releases literary Chinese translation
When reading ancient Chinese poetry, we often marvel at the very wonderful words ancient writers could use to describe people, events, objects, and scenes. This is a splendid cultural treasure that has been left behind for us. However, similar to Shakespeare’s verses in the English language,…
The true cost of your idea
Each idea we implement, whether it succeeds or fails, has hidden costs which we often don’t consider. These hidden costs may be contributing to your idea not being fully used by your customer.
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Fast AutoML with FLAML + Ray Tune
FLAML is a lightweight Python library from Microsoft Research that finds accurate machine learning models in an efficient and economical way using cutting edge algorithms designed to be resource-efficient and easily parallelizable. FLAML can also utilize Ray Tune for distributed…