Awards | ACM SIGCOMM
Venkat Padmanabhan among those recognized with the SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award
The SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award is awarded to an institution or individual(s) to recognize the development of a networking system that has had a significant impact on the world of computer networking. Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research India,…
XGLUE: Expanding cross-lingual understanding and generation with tasks from real-world scenarios
| Nan Duan, Yaobo Liang, and Daniel Campos
What we can teach a model to do with natural language is dictated by the availability of data. Currently, we have a lot of labeled data for very few languages, making it difficult to train models to accomplish question answering,…
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Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft launch groundbreaking ImmuneCODE database to share populationwide immune response to the COVID-19 virus
SEATTLE and REDMOND, Wash. — June 11, 2020 — Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. (Nasdaq: ADPT) on Thursday launched ImmuneCODE with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) to begin sharing one of the largest, most detailed views of the immune response to COVID-19 in…
Hello everyone, Steven from the Microsoft Soundscape team here. I lead the Quality Assurance for Soundscape, and today I’m going to give you some insight into what this involves. We often get asked: “How do you test Microsoft Soundscape?” What…
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Chatbot provides new route for Scottish patients to access Covid-19 information and support
People across Scotland who need help and information about coronavirus can now get help using an online chatbot from NHS 24, the organisation that provides Scotland’s 111 service.
Earlier this year, a novel coronavirus rendered online teaching a norm. With “classroom” experiences poor, effective interactions between teachers and students difficult to maintain, and teaching quality easily affected by network conditions, online teaching has created many difficulties for teachers…
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BSA Member COVID-19 Resources
Communities around the world are taking essential steps to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. BSA members have risen to this global challenge in a number of ways, including: providing free access to their services; advice and help regarding remote…
Provably efficient reinforcement learning with Dr. Akshay Krishnamurthy
MSR’s New York City lab is home to some of the best reinforcement learning research on the planet but if you ask any of the researchers, they’ll tell you they’re very interested in getting it out of the lab and…