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Microsoft’s plan to scrub carbon out of the atmosphere? Quantum computers
Quantum computers promise to be game-changers in fields where there are enormously complex calculations to be carried out. Hoping to use quantum computing to address one of humanity’s biggest problems — climate change — investigators from Microsoft Research and ETH…
State-of-the-art algorithm accelerates path for quantum computers to address climate change
| Matthias Troyer
While there has been a focus in the quantum computing industry on growing the number of qubits in a quantum computer, the reality is there are many important factors when building an overall system to bring quantum solutions to fruition.…
Students of all ages struggle to understand various math concepts. So, as part of a larger effort across multiple product teams at Microsoft, the Math team has created several tools to help every classroom become more inclusive and to make…
In the news | Medium
Project Freta: Microsoft’s Cloud-based Memory Analysis Engine
Ah, the sweet days of running your memory sample through volatility. It’s not over yet — but Microsoft has done an amazing job at releasing a new service, which can perform a full-blown volatile memory analysis of a Linux system,…
Researchers use a strand-displacing DNA polymerase to do biocomputing
| Shalin Shah and Yuan-Jyue Chen
All around us, biochemical systems are regulating a variety of natural processes, from our body’s ability to protect our skin through the timely production of melanin to plants’ ability to convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen using sunlight. Replicating…
In the news | LinkedIn
The first 200 days of COVID-19
A Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it [1]. Santayana forgot to mention that those that do remember are condemned to watch others repeat it.
In the news | Machine Learning (Theory)
HOMER: Provable Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
Last week at ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra had a paper on a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that solves three key problems in RL: (i) global exploration, (ii) decoding latent dynamics, and (iii) optimizing a given…
In the news | TED2020
COVID-19 unraveled the workforce. Here’s how to fix it
"We are living through the tech-enabled unraveling of full-time employment itself," says anthropologist Mary L. Gray. As the pandemic exposes and accelerates the shift to on-demand online labor, Gray takes us inside the jobs being created to solve the problems…
In the news | MSPoweruser
Microsoft Research develops AI-based fix for blurred pictures due to Under-Display cameras
After the success of the punch-hole front-facing camera the next major development for selfie cameras is fully under-display cameras, where the cameras are behind a transparent OLED screen which would still work as a normal display when not active, but…