He was the first Chinese scholar to become a “complete” fellow at all the following organizations: ACM, AAAI, IEEE, AAAS and IAPR. He was the first Chinese scholar to serve as the program chair of AAAI. He was elected as…
Old tools, new tricks: Improving the computational notebook experience for data scientists
| Titus Barik, Ishita Prasad, Rob DeLine, and Sumit Gulwani
As technology has advanced, the way we accomplish things in our lives has shifted. While new tech is influencing such basic human activities as communication, for instance, encouraging us to reconsider what it means to connect with one another, technological…
We are announcing Hummingbird, a library for accelerating inference (scoring/prediction) in traditional machine learning models. Internally, Hummingbird compiles traditional ML pipelines into tensor computations to take advantage of the optimizations that are being implemented for neural network systems.
Harvesting randomness, HAIbrid algorithms and safe AI with Dr. Siddhartha Sen
Dr. Siddhartha Sen is a Principal Researcher in MSR’s New York City lab, and his research interests are, if not impossible, at least impossible sounding: optimal decision making, universal data structures, and verifiably safe AI. Today, he tells us how…
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Microsoft DeepSpeed achieves the fastest BERT training time
Good news! DeepSpeed obtains the fastest BERT training record: 44 minutes on 1024 NVIDIA V100 GPU. This is a 30% improvement over the best published result of 67 mins in end-to-end training time to achieve the same accuracy on the…
In the news | The Times of India
Can hyper local air-quality data ensure a ‘Blue Sky’ future for Delhi?
The lockdown due to Covid-19 has turned the spotlight on unusual sightings of wildlife across the world and good air-quality. Suspension of all forms of travel and closure of industrial work has improved the air when compared to the same…
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Racing against time, medical researchers, life science companies and COVID-19 survivors launch national campaign to drive blood plasma donation
REDMOND, Wash., USA, and NEW YORK — May 26, 2020 — A coalition of world-leading medical and research institutions, blood centers, life science companies, technology companies, philanthropic organizations, and COVID-19 survivor groups has come together to support the rapid development…
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Microsoft’s New Machine Learning Model Spots Critical Security Bugs 97% of the Time
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Microsoft: Here’s why we love programming language Rust and kicked off Project Verona
Microsoft has explained why it's pursuing 'safe systems programming' through efforts like its experimental Rust-inspired Project Verona language and its exploration of the Rust programming language for Windows code written in C++.