January 26, 2021

Editor’s note: AI programming is one of the great expectations that people have for artificial intelligence. Although current AI programming technology has benefitted many ordinary users who do not know how to program, it still has a long way to…

January 26, 2021

“The world runs on software” —— Our modern life relies on diverse software systems, which provide services including search, shopping, chatting, recommendation, and so on. As user requirements and scenarios increase, these systems continuously grow in scale and complexity over…

January 26, 2021

While heuristic evaluations are less expensive, they’re typically not as exciting to run as usability studies or interviews, and they don’t produce convincing videos for stakeholders. So, how can we raise the stakes for heuristic evaluations and when should we?

January 25, 2021

Trustworthy data and analyses are key to making sound business decisions, particularly when it comes to A/B testing. Ignoring data quality issues or biases introduced through design and interpretations risks leading to incorrect conclusions that could hurt your product. In…

January 25, 2021 | Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones

Ever since it was released in the 1980s, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the millions of people who use it each day. It’s also the world’s most…

January 22, 2021

编者按：微软亚洲研究院自动机器学习（AutoML）工具 NNI 自发布以来好评如潮，全新升级的2.0版本也备受关注。它的成功是跨领域、跨 Lab、开源社区内外通力合作的成果。本文将带领大家了解 NNI 背后的故事，讲述 NNI 是如何做到开源合作与跨界创新的。 2020年，经历了9个小版本的迭代与优化，微软亚洲研究院研发的自动机器学习（AutoML）工具 NNI（Neural Network In...

January 21, 2021 | Kristin Lauter, Sreekanth Kannepalli, Kim Laine, and Radames Cruz Moreno

One of the biggest pillars for Microsoft Edge is trust. Today, to further bolster that trust while keeping our customers safe, we introduce a new feature called Password Monitor. The feature notifies users if any of their saved passwords have…