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‘This Is The Time’: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Talks Software’s Role In Covid-19 Response And Recovery
As the CEO of the world’s most valuable company, one that works with hundreds of millions of customers and employs more than 150,000 people, Satya Nadella has a unique vantage point for observing technology’s role in combatting Covid-19.
对话ACM Fellow周礼栋：博士之后，下一站在哪儿？
编者按：《Nature》针对全球6000多位博士生进行的一项调查，揭示了三分之一的博士生可能经历焦虑抑郁。研究瓶颈、毕业延期、求职压力，博士生涯可谓“南上加南”。临近毕业的计算机博士们更容易感到纠结：读完博士该去哪儿？学术界还是产业界？科技公司研究院还是创业？微软亚洲研究院副院长、ACM Fellow周礼栋和我们聊了聊他的看法。 Q：您认为国内年轻的计算机博士跟他们的上一代比，有什么变化？ 周礼栋...
Objects are the secret key to revealing the world between vision and language
| Chunyuan Li, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans perceive the world through many channels, such as images viewed by the eyes or voices heard by the ears. Though any individual channel might be incomplete or noisy, humans can naturally align and fuse the information collected from multiple…
Awards | VQA Challenge 2020, 3rd Place
3rd Place, VQA Challenge 2020
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UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft collaborate to launch ProtectWell™ protocol and app to support return-to-workplace planning and COVID-19 symptom screening
MINNETONKA, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. (May 15, 2020) – UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) have joined forces to launch ProtectWell™, an innovative return-to-workplace protocol that enables employers to bring employees back to work in a safer…
In the news | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Cynthia Dwork wins Knuth Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the Foundations of Computer Science
SIGACT has awarded the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize to IQSS faculty affiliate Cynthia Dwork for her impactful work in the field of computer science. The Knuth Prize is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on…
In the news | TheNextWeb
Microsoft’s new AI can generate smart to-do lists from your emails
Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft’s AI team today unveiled a ‘Smart To-Do’ tool for automatically generating task lists from emails. Smart To-Do is an AI feature that scans your outgoing emails for actionable text and turns your…
With the COVID-19 situation continuing, we continue to see challenges with in-person support that in regular times would be provided by a sighted guide or a Mobility Instructor. Yet the need to get groceries, head to the pharmacy, and to…
Diving into Deep InfoMax with Dr. Devon Hjelm
Dr. Devon Hjelm is a senior researcher at the Microsoft Research lab in Montreal, and on the podcast, he joins me to dive deep into his research on Deep InfoMax, a novel self-supervised learning approach to training AI models –…