Awards | Royal Academy of Engineering
Ant Rowstron Named Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fifty-three leading engineers from the UK and around the world have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the profession. They join an Academy on a mission to…
Dialogue as Dataflow: A new approach to conversational AI
By the Semantic Machines research team “Easier said than done.” These four words reflect the promise of conversational AI. It takes just seconds to ask When are Megan and I both free? but much longer to find out manually from…
In the news | Quanta Magazine
At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition. The 61st International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, begins today. It may go down in history for at least two…
Awards | HTN Awards 2020
InnerEye finalists in HTN Awards 2020 for Best Health Tech Solution of the Year and Best use of AI
The HTN Awards 2020, sponsored by CCube Solutions, celebrate great technology, partnerships, teams and innovations making a difference across health and care. HTN is delighted to announce the finalists in the Awards and congratulations to all involved. On this webpage…
In the news | InfoWorld
Microsoft open-sources fuzzing test framework
Microsoft is looking to help developers continuously fuzz-test code prior to release, via the open source OneFuzz framework. Described as a self-hosted fuzzing-as-a-service platform, OneFuzz enables developer-driven fuzzing to identify software vulnerabilites during the development process. Source code for OneFuzz…
In the news | The Batch
Toward 1 Trillion Parameters
An open source library could spawn trillion-parameter neural networks and help small-time developers build big-league models. What’s new: Microsoft upgraded DeepSpeed, a library that accelerates the PyTorch deep learning framework. The revision makes it possible to train models five times…
In the news | MS Power User
Microsoft releases Project OneFuzz framework, an open source tool to find and fix bugs
Microsoft yesterday announced the release of a new tool called Project OneFuzz. Project OneFuzz is an extensible fuzz testing framework for Azure that is used by Microsoft Edge, Windows, and teams across Microsoft. Microsoft is now open sourcing the tool…
铸星闪耀 | 青年学者携手“星搭档”探索无限可能
微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”旨在发掘和助力新一代青年学者，使其成为科研创新能力突出、走在世界科技前沿的学术带头人。无论是与领域内顶尖研究员合作的机会，还是最新、最丰富的数据集和强大的支持资源，亦或是产业界独有的实际应用场景，都吸引着青年才俊们来到 MSRA 探索领域内前沿新知。 今天，我们带来了三位“铸星学者”的访问故事，他们分别来自北京邮电大学、中国科学院和华中科技大学，汇聚在微软亚洲研究院副院长...
With the start of the new school year, researchers began to study the social and emotional well-being of students and the impact distance learning has had on their education. Through their research, they discovered many students are lacking access to…