January 21, 2020

Microsoft Research AI today said it plans to open-source an optimized version of Google’s popular BERT natural language model designed to work with the ONNX Runtime inference engine. Microsoft uses to the same model to lower latency for BERT when…

January 21, 2020

With the growing amount of data collected every day, data confidentiality is increasingly at risk. Many of the traditional approaches to statistical disclosure control are no longer deemed sufficient to protect the confidentiality of the data. Formal privacy guarantees are…

January 21, 2020

Microsoft is open sourcing and integrating some updates it it has made in deep-learning models used for natural-language processing. On January 21, the company announced it is making available to developers these optimizations by integrating them into the ONNX Runtime.

January 21, 2020

Nachi Nagappan has been selected to receive the 2020 Harlan D. Mills Award for his “outstanding contributions to empirical software engineering and data-driven software development.” The Harlan D. Mills Award recognizes researchers and practitioners who have demonstrated long-standing, sustained, and impactful…

January 21, 2020

One of the most popular deep learning models used for natural language processing is BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). Due to the significant computation required, inferencing BERT at high scale can be extremely costly and may not even be possible…

January 17, 2020

January 17, 2020

Microsoft recently created a stir after revealing it was taking some ideas from the popular Rust programming language to create a new language for 'safe infrastructure programming' under the banner Project Verona. 

January 17, 2020