How can we help organizations to understand their capacity for resilience before it is needed, and how can we help them to increase that capacity before it is too late?
In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Q&A: Peter Lee on the COVID-19 pandemic, societal resilience and crisis-response science
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended every aspect of society and, at the same time, the urgent need for a response has spurred collaboration, innovation and creativity. Microsoft has created a Resilience series to highlight some of the research projects, technologies…
Econ1: Using microeconomics to solve mass incarceration featuring Hunt Allcott and Evan Rose
In this episode, Dr. Hunt Allcott, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, talks with Dr. Evan Rose, Postdoctoral Researcher, whom Allcott describes as “one of the most engaging and talented researchers in applied microeconomics today.” They’ll discuss how…
Beacon on the Banksy
On Monday, 1 March, word started to spread around Reading, UK, that a piece of graffiti by the anonymous street artist, “Banksy”, had appeared overnight. I found out that the artwork was located somewhere on the wall of the old…
We recently completed a body of research to understand extreme usage among enterprise technology users. Using multiple techniques and studies, we wanted to delve into the experience of very heavy, or high intensity users, to understand not just how humans experience the technology, but also to learn how specific or universal are the pain points they experience.
Microsoft and NVIDIA introduce parameter-efficient multimodal transformers for video representation learning
| Yale Song
Understanding video is one of the most challenging problems in AI, and an important underlying requirement is learning multimodal representations that capture information about objects, actions, sounds, and their long-range statistical dependencies from audio-visual signals. Recently, transformers have been successful in…
In the news | Development Seed Blog
Introducing PEARL — AI Accelerated Land Cover Mapping Platform
Development Seed and Microsoft AI for Earth are launching PEARL, an AI-accelerated platform for fast land cover mapping, for experimental use. PEARL represents a new approach to combining human intelligence and scalable AI for fast, accurate land cover mapping. It…
CHI 2021: Making remote and hybrid meetings work in the new future of work
| Jaime Teevan
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, some truths about the nature of work have been underscored: it is uniquely complex, quickly shifting, and increasingly technology-mediated. Teaching, medicine, mental health, and other professions—previously thought to be near-impossible to do remotely—have…
学术新星畅谈计算机视觉科研之路：视觉研究已经成熟，跨学科方法成为趋势
4月22日，微软亚洲研究院创研论坛 CVPR 2021 论文分享会在线上举行。来自国内外计算机视觉领域的21位优秀代表与观众零距离交流，分享了他们在 CVPR 2021 发表的最新研究成果。 本次论文分享会的开幕由北京邮电大学教授、中国计算机学会计算机视觉专委会秘书长马占宇主持，他首先回顾了近四年 CVPR 论文分享会的举办盛况与形式变化。随后，北京大学教授、中国计算机学会计算机视觉专委会主任查红...