Advancing Human-Centered AI
| Eric Horvitz
We’re excited about the formal launch of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on Monday, March 18th. We resonate with Fei-Fei Li, John Etchemendy, and other leaders at Stanford on the promise of taking an interdisciplinary approach to…
Towards universal language embeddings
| Jianfeng Gao
Language embedding is a process of mapping symbolic natural language text (for example, words, phrases and sentences) to semantic vector representations. This is fundamental to deep learning approaches to natural language understanding (NLU). It is highly desirable to learn language…
Awards | Microsoft News Centre UK
Simon Peyton Jones appointed chair of National Centre for Computing Education
Simon Peyton Jones, principal researcher at Microsoft and one of Britain’s leading computer scientists, was appointed chair of the Government’s new National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE), which works to improve the teaching of computer science in schools. He will…
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Microsoft Advancing AI-Powered Cloud Speech Using GPU Inference
Delivering speech-driven recommendations in real time with NVIDIA GPU Inference When you ask your phone a question, you don’t just want the right answer. You want the right answer, right now. The answer to this seemingly simple question requires an…
Researchers seek to simplify the complex in cloud computing
From February 26–28, researchers gathered in Boston for the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), one of the top conferences in the networking and systems field. Microsoft, a silver sponsor of the event, was represented by…
Programming biology with Dr. Andrew Phillips
Episode 67, March 13, 2019 - Today, Dr. Phillips talks about the challenges and rewards inherent in reverse engineering biological systems to see how they perform information processing. He also explains what we can learn from stressed out bacteria, and…
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Smartglasses will replace the mobile phone
In the news | 12-App
The glasses will replace the smartphone
Describe our readers your office. Is there still a PC, or do you only have the Hololens glasses? We still have screens. I think it will be some time before the Hololens will replace my laptop. Frontline workers are currently…
Calling all aspiring women in Data Science
| Vani Mandava
What started as a one-day conference organized by Stanford University in 2015, Women in Data Science (WiDS) has blossomed into a movement bringing together women data scientists and aspiring data scientists via a series of over 150 virtual and in-person…