微软与清华大学联合提出DeepRSM模型，以AI助力空气污染治理
作者：邢佳、郑书新、秦涛、刘铁岩 编者按：人工智能如何帮助环境学家解决空气污染问题？在7月10日 WAIC 2020“人工智能予力永续未来”微软论坛上，微软亚洲研究院副院长刘铁岩博士展示了微软在这一领域的工作。 控制和减少污染物排放是治理空气污染的重要手段，精准的排放-污染物浓度响应曲面可以帮助决策者快速找到效果更好的减排方案。但传统排放-污染物浓度响应曲面需要依赖 CTM 模型进行模拟，其存在计...
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Land O’Lakes and Microsoft form strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and support rural communities
ARDEN HILLS, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — July 15, 2020 — Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a multiyear strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and enhance the supply chain, expand sustainability practices for farmers…
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Imaging data could identify who should shield in COVID-19 outbreaks
UCLH and UCL researchers are working with Microsoft to see if chest imaging data can identify better who should shield in potential future COVID-19 outbreaks. With concerns that current shielding guidelines miss out on people who should be shielding but…
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Microsoft’s SoftNER AI uses unsupervised learning to help triage cloud service outages
Microsoft is using unsupervised learning techniques to extract knowledge about disruptions to cloud services. In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at the company detail SoftNER, a framework that has been deployed internally at Microsoft to collate information…
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HOMER: Provable Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
At ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra published a paper presenting a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm called HOMER that addresses three main problems in real-world RL problem: (i) exploration, (ii) decoding latent dynamics, and (iii) optimizing…
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Microsoft’s Project Freta aims to eliminate Linux malware
Last week, Microsoft unveiled Project Freta, a cloud-based malware detection service (via Bleeping Computer). The project aims to detect malware that previously went undetected on Linux cloud VM images. It's a free service from Microsoft Research that can detect OS…
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Machine learning for COVID-19—asking the right questions
COVID-19, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has put health-care systems worldwide into crisis.1 The speed with which health-care resources have been consumed has in some countries exceeded supply of personal protective equipment and ventilators,…
Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud with Dr. Stefan Saroiu
Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to Rowhammer, an adversarial attack that can cause data loss and security exploits in everything from smart…
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Fret not, Linux fans, Microsoft’s Project Freta is here to peer deep into your memory… to spot malware
Boffins in Microsoft Research has pulled the covers off Project Freta, a free service aimed at spotting memory malfeasance. A technology demonstration named for the street in Warsaw, Poland where Marie Curie was born, Freta comes from the NExT Security…