In the news | Excel Blog
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
Today we are releasing to our Beta customers a new capability that will revolutionize how you build formulas in Excel. Excel formulas are the world’s most widely used programming language, yet one of the more basic principles in programming has…
Utilizing consumer cameras for contact-free physiological measurement in telehealth and beyond
| Daniel McDuff and Xin Liu
According to the CDC WONDER Online Database (opens in new tab), heart disease is currently the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. However, most deaths due to cardiovascular diseases could be prevented with…
A Microsoft custom data type for efficient inference
| Bita Darvish Rouhani, Doug Burger, Eric Chung, Rangan Majumder, Sangeetha Shekar, Saurabh Tiwary, Sitaram Lanka, and Steve Reinhardt
AI is taking on an increasingly important role in many Microsoft products, such as Bing and Office 365. In some cases, it’s being used to power outward-facing features like semantic search in Microsoft Word or intelligent answers in Bing, and…
Discussions at the customer level bring product teams together; user models (UMs) synthesize and summarize customer information to facilitate those discussions. This article discusses the move from personas to UMs because personas reduce customers to an average that doesn’t exist, while UMs allow for a broader representation of a range of customers.
Adversarial machine learning and instrumental variables for flexible causal modeling
| Vasilis Syrgkanis
We are going through a new shift in machine learning (ML), where ML models are increasingly being used to automate decision-making in a multitude of domains: what personalized treatment should be administered to a patient, what discount should be offered…
In the news | Adaptive Biotech
T Cell Testing Outperforms Antibody Testing in Determining Prior COVID-19 Infection
COVID-19 rates are at an all-time high. With no singular containment strategy underway in the U.S., it has become more critical than ever to understand who has previously been infected by the virus, whether or not they displayed symptoms. Traditional…
The human side of AI for chess
| Reid McIlroy-Young, Ashton Anderson, Jon Kleinberg, and Siddhartha Sen
Editor’s note: The section “Modeling individual players’ styles with Maia” has been updated as of July 12, 2021. As artificial intelligence continues its rapid progress, equaling or surpassing human performance on benchmarks in an increasing range of tasks, researchers in…