Neural architecture search, imitation learning and the optimized pipeline with Dr. Debadeepta Dey
Dr. Debadeepta Dey is a Principal Researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at MSR and he’s currently exploring several lines of research that may help bridge the gap between perception and planning for autonomous agents, teaching them to…
EMEA scholarship program continues to foster collaboration with academia while new research award targets rising talent
| Clare Morgan
Cecily Morrison wants to build technology that enables people to live their lives the way they want and accomplish things they wouldn’t otherwise be able to. The Principal Researcher landed on the personal mission years before joining Microsoft Research. Experiences…
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Microsoft fuels tech intensity in India
Showcases innovation across sectors at Future Decoded: Tech Summit
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Turing NLG 17B
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Connection is Everything, a Hackathon Story
Microsoft’s annual Hackathon is a company-wide event that encourages employees to partner with colleagues from different teams and dream up projects that normally would never land on their desks.
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Microsoft’s CodeBERT ingests public GitHub repositories to help you find code
Large pretrained language models have improved the state-of-the-art on a range of natural language processing tasks, chiefly because they’re able to learn contextual representations from text without supervision. In a preprint paper, a team of researchers at Microsoft Research Asia used…
Democratizing data, thinking backwards and setting North Star goals with Dr. Donald Kossmann
Dr. Donald Kossmann is a Distinguished Scientist who thinks big, and as the Director of Microsoft Research’s flagship lab in Redmond, it’s his job to inspire others to think big, too. But don’t be fooled. For him, thinking big involves…
Five ways your academic research skills transfer to industry
| Alaina Talboy
Graduate students are often coached to pursue a career in higher education, yet the number of available tenure-track positions falls far short of the number of candidates looking to fill them. In reality, about 14 percent of graduates with advanced…
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Artificial intelligence makes a splash in efforts to protect Alaska’s ice seals and beluga whales
When Erin Moreland set out to become a research zoologist, she envisioned days spent sitting on cliffs, drawing seals and other animals to record their lives for efforts to understand their activities and protect their habitats. Instead, Moreland found herself…