In the news | Mozilla Security Blog
Performance Improvements via Formally-Verified Cryptography in Firefox
Cryptographic primitives, while extremely complex and difficult to implement, audit, and validate, are critical for security on the web. To ensure that NSS (Network Security Services, the cryptography library behind Firefox) abides by Mozilla’s principle of user security being fundamental,…
Visualizing academic impact
We're excited to announce that starting today Microsoft Academic users have a new way of visualizing academic impact. This feature, available on author, conference, journal, institution and topic detail pages, provides a visualization of the impact an entity has in…
Teaching a robot to see and navigate with simulation
| Sebastian Scherer and Ashish Kapoor
The ability to see and navigate is a critical operational requirement for robots and autonomous systems. For example, consider autonomous rescue robots that are required to maneuver and navigate in challenging physical environments that humans cannot safely access. Similarly, building AI…
Newly discovered principle reveals how adversarial training can perform robust deep learning
| Zeyuan Allen-Zhu and Yuanzhi Li
In machine learning, adversarial examples usually refer to natural inputs plus small, specially crafted perturbations that can fool the model into making mistakes. In recent years, adversarial examples have been repeatedly discovered in deep learning applications, causing public concerns about…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft launches initiative to help 25 million people worldwide acquire the digital skills needed in a COVID-19 economy
Around the world, 2020 has emerged as one of the most challenging years in many of our lifetimes. In six months, the world has endured multiple challenges, including a pandemic that has spurred a global economic crisis. As societies reopen,…
In the news | MSPoweruser
Microsoft Research develop amazing photo restoration algorithm
Microsoft Research team Ziyu Wan, Bo Zhang, and more have developed a new AI-based algorithm for restoring old photos that suffer from severe degradation through a deep learning approach.
It's critical to make cautious and informed decisions about changes that impact users-- especially during times of extra stress. Prompted by the Covid-19 crisis, Microsoft's ExP team shares their thinking about effective use of A/B testing to mitigate uncertainty during…
In the news | Medium
‘Colorblind’ Tech is Killing Us: Why COVID-19 Tech Must Focus on Equity
COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 120,000 people in the United States and debilitated millions more since arriving on our shores. While anyone can contract the virus, there is a pattern to who gets sick and dies from…
Hi there, Steven from the Soundscape Team here again. One of the most common questions we receive in customer feedback is how Microsoft Soundscape appears to announce callouts slightly differently when travelling in a vehicle or on public transport compared…