In the news | DZone
Bosque: Microsoft’s New Programming Language
Bosque is described as a programming language that is “simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines.” As a supporter of technology that is “simple”, “obvious” and “easy”, I was interested to see what this meant…
The future of productivity: People and tools that grow together
| Jaime Teevan
Computers are disappearing. This doesn’t mean they’re actually going away, though. In fact, every day more and more of how we live, work, and interact is transformed by computers. But it does mean that technology has become so ubiquitous in…
Making the future of work work for you with Johannes Gehrke
Episode 83, July 17, 2019- Dr. Johannes Gehrke is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and head of Architecture and Machine Learning for the Intelligent Communications and Conversations Cloud in Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices division. But lest you think his lofty position…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Microsoft makes it easier to build popular language representation model BERT at large scale
Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning, so that customers can unlock the power of training custom…
微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”旨在发掘和助力新一代青年学者，使其成为科研创新能力突出、走在世界科技前沿的学术带头人。于青年学者而言，这绝不是一场简单的访问：通过与顶尖研究员的亲密合作，学者们可以扩展研究的想象力、探索技术未来的可能；依托最新、最全的数据集和强大的硬件资源，学者们能大大推进科研项目的进展；产业界独有的实际应用场景，也能帮助学者们解决产品落地过程中最真实的问题。 今天，我们带来了三位老师的...
Leveraging blockchain to make machine learning models more accessible
| Justin D. Harris
Significant advances are being made in artificial intelligence, but accessing and taking advantage of the machine learning systems making these developments possible can be challenging, especially for those with limited resources. These systems tend to be highly centralized, their predictions…
In the news | GeekWire
New Microsoft Azure service helps companies share (and potentially sell) their internal data
A new cloud service unveiled by Microsoft today sets the stage for the company’s customers to share and monetize some of their most valuable internal data.