AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
Episode 72, April 17, 2019 - We hear a lot these days about “AI for good” and the efforts of many companies to harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve some of our biggest environmental challenges. It’s rare, however,…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
AI for Earth is a multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative to deploy the full scale of Microsoftâs products, policies and partnerships across four key areas of agriculture, water, biodiversity and climate, and transform the way society monitors, models, and ultimately manages…
计算机图形学必读的10本书
计算机图形学诞生于二十世纪六十年代，主要的研究内容是研究如何使用数学算法在计算机中有效地表达、生成、处理以及显示相关图像和图形。作为一门计算机应用科学，计算机图形学近年来的快速发展极大地促进了计算机辅助设计、虚拟现实、游戏、动画、影视特效等行业的发展。 为了帮助同学们更好地学习计算机图形学，我们邀请微软亚洲研究院网络图形组研究员董悦为大家推荐了该领域相关的经典书籍，内容涵盖图形学基础原理、渲染基础...
Less pain, more gain: A simple method for VAE training with less of that KL-vanishing agony
| Chunyuan Li
There is a growing interest in exploring the use of variational auto-encoders (VAE), a deep latent variable model, for text generation. Compared to the standard RNN-based language model that generates sentences one word at a time without the explicit guidance…
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We’re increasing our carbon fee as we double down on sustainability
Since 2009, Microsoft has made and met a series of commitments to reduce the company’s carbon footprint. While we’ve made progress toward our goal of cutting our operational carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030, the magnitude and speed of…
Making ‘micromoments’ work for you
| Shamsi Iqbal
Imagine you’ve been asked to write a crucial document for your company, perhaps a detailed outline of its long-term strategy. You’re excited, but don’t know when you’ll find the time to write it. As you sit in a meeting later…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Making “micromoments” work for you
The concept of microtasks is not new and is most commonly associated with crowdwork. In crowdwork, tasks are short and independent in nature, and workers don't have to worry about how the tasks are created or how they contribute to…
This blog is part 1 of a 3-part series where we will introduce the changes that have been made in this iteration of the site and highlight the search experience, and new data insights. In today’s blog, we will cover…