In the news | Microsoft Stories | India
Democratizing air pollution data so India can clear its cities of choking smog
A majority of the world’s most polluted cities are in India. Air quality data that is accessible to citizens can help tackle the menace.
HEXA: Self-supervised pretraining with hard examples improves visual representations
| Chunyuan Li, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans perceive the world through observing a large number of visual scenes around us and then effectively generalizing—in other words, interpreting and identifying scenes they haven’t encountered before—without heavily relying on labeled annotations for every single scene. One of the…
AAAI 2021: Accelerating the impact of artificial intelligence
The purpose of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, according to its bylaws, is twofold. The first is to promote research in the area of AI, and the second is to promote the responsible use of these types of technology. The result was a 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) (opens…
全面了解计算机系统研究的必读书目
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In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Building resilient models of care with new Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare features
2020 was the year that challenged healthcare professionals to learn, adapt, and grow as they cared for patients through the COVID-19 pandemic. The concepts of quarantine and social distancing became commonplace, as virtual health and remote patient monitoring usage grew…
In the news | AI and Gaming Research Summit 2021
Responsible Gaming
Many people use online gaming to socialize, both to relieve stress in a casual setting and to nurture lasting relationships. These goals are best met in healthy online communities that foster trust among their members, as gamers must weigh risks…
In the news | BioSpace
Adaptive Biotechnologies Launches T-Detect™ COVID, First Clinical T-Cell Based Test for Patients to Confirm Recent or Prior COVID-19 Infection
SEATTLE, Feb. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation (Nasdaq: ADPT), a commercial stage biotechnology company that aims to translate the genetics of the adaptive immune system into clinical products to diagnose and treat disease, today announced the launch…
In the news | UCB
UCB and Microsoft Expand Collaboration to Accelerate Drug Discovery and Development
UCB and Microsoft have announced a new multi-year, strategic collaboration to combine Microsoft’s computational services, cloud, and artificial intelligence (AI) with UCB’s drug discovery and development capabilities. As several drug discovery activities require the analysis of high-dimensional data sets or…
Awards | USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch receive USENIX 2021 Test of Time Award
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch received the USENIX Test of Time Award at FAST 2021. The award recognizes their paper from 2007, A five-year study of file-system metadata, which has had a lasting impact on the File and…