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Microsoft’s new research lab studies developer productivity and well-being
Microsoft has unveiled a new research initiative designed to “discover, improve, and amplify” developer work and well-being. Announced at Microsoft’s annual developer-focused Build conference, the new Developer Velocity Lab (DVL) will conduct “socio-technical investigations” spanning productivity, community, and general well-being.
DeepSpeed: Accelerating large-scale model inference and training via system optimizations and compression
| DeepSpeed Team, Rangan Majumder, and Andrey Proskurin
Last month, the DeepSpeed Team announced ZeRO-Infinity, a step forward in training models with tens of trillions of parameters. In addition to creating optimizations for scale, our team strives to introduce features that also improve speed, cost, and usability. As…
Awards | NSF funded CIFellowship
Computing Innovation Fellow 2021
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Dhruv “DJ” Jain awarded 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant
Dhruv “DJ” Jain, an intern alumni of the Microsoft Research Ability group, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant for his dissertation titled “Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users”.…
CHI 2021: Redefining accessibility to build more inclusive technologies
Accessibility and inclusion represent a growing space in the technology landscape, and how research and development are being used to empower people across abilities is expanding in exciting ways. Instead of treating disabilities as conditions in need of solutions—as has…
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Wildlife Rangers Armed with AI Panel at SXSW
SXSW 2021 | Shahrzad Gholami's participation in a panel on "How AI can help combat armed wildlife rangers" at SXSW 2021.
Anticipate, absorb, and adapt—introducing the societal resilience research agenda
| Peter Lee
The genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first published in January 2020. Before the end of the year, new vaccines—which typically take five to ten years to develop—were approved for emergency use in multiple nations. This astounding achievement is emblematic of…
Our goal with this project was to create a conversational chatbot to streamline the determination of vaccine eligibility in the United States, aggregating policies across regions and policy updates over time.
Case study: Tech Against Trafficking
Only through the proper coordination of partners spanning the public and private sector, coupled with the mutual evolution of technology and policy, can the human effort to combat trafficking be most effective.