In the news | VentureBeat

When SuperGLUE was introduced, there was a nearly 20-point gap between the best-performing model and human performance on the leaderboard. But as of early January, two models — one from Microsoft called DeBERTa and a second from Google called T5…

In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog

Since the start of the pandemic, Microsoft Healthcare Bot has been at the leading edge of helping organizations be more agile with patient engagement. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Walgreens, Premera, and Providence are just a few of…

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Many researchers have documented the importance of color in shaping perceptions, providing context, and helping users connect with an application. We took a more focused approach recently in examining color as relates to icon sets. Our goal was to understand how color might affect user comprehension, efficiency, and satisfaction. At stake: The satisfaction of long-time product users who…

Awards | Meta Module Network for Compositional Visual Reasoning

Awards | IEEE Signal Processing Society

The IEEE SPS awarded Rico Malvar the Society’s prestigious Amar G. Bose Industrial Leader Award, for his contributions to multimedia signal processing and industrial research leadership. The award recognizes an industry business or technical leader whose leadership has resulted in…

Awards | British Computer Society

Ahmed Awadallah received the 2020 Karen Sparck Jones Award presented by the British Computer Society (BCS).  This award is given to researchers within 10 years of their PhD who have contributed significantly to information retrieval and/or natural language processing.

Awards | International Association for Pattern Recognition

Katsushi Ikeuchi  received the IAPR Fellow Award 2020 for his fundamental contributions to computer vision applied to robotics and man-machine interaction. The prestigious IAPR Fellow Award was introduced in 1994 and since then is biennially conferred on persons to acknowledge…

In the news | Microsoft Anti-Corruption Technology and Solutions

Part 1: Making a difference with data A fundamental question when attempting to tackle any sufficiently complex problem is, “How can data make a difference?” While this question applies to all problem areas across business, government, and society, it especially…

In the news | Cambridge Independent

Addenbrooke’s is becoming the first hospital in the world to use artificial intelligence technology from Microsoft to cut waiting times for cancer patients and potentially improve survival rates.