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In the news | Decipher
Microsoft open sources SEAL homomorphic encryption library
The library is designed specifically with cloud computing use cases in mind, giving customers a way to interact with encrypted data stored on cloud services without downloading and decrypting it, or having to give the encryption key to the cloud…
In the news | WinBuzzer
Microsoft SEAL Arrives as Simple and Efficient Homomorphic Encryption Solution
Microsoft Research has announced a new homomorphic encryption library that balances privacy and convenience. Called Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (Microsoft SEAL), the service is described as easy-to-use by the research team.
In the news | Intel AI
HE-Transformer for nGraph: Enabling Deep Learning on Encrypted Data
We are pleased to announce the open source release of HE-Transformer, a homomorphic encryption (HE) backend to nGraph, Intel's neural network compiler. HE allows computation on encrypted data. This capability, when applied to machine learning, allows data owners to gain…
Awards | Bloomberg
E. Glen Weyl recognized as a Bloomberg 50 2018
E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and founder of the non-profit RadicalXchange Foundation. Glen was recognized with Eric Posner as a Bloomberg 50 2018 for their unique ideas to harness market forces to achieve social good.…
ReDial: Recommendation dialogs for bridging the gap between chit-chat and goal-oriented chatbots
Chatbots come in many flavors, but most can be placed in one of two categories: goal-oriented chatbots and chit-chat chatbots. Goal-oriented chatbots behave like a natural language interface for function calls, where the chatbot asks for and confirms all required…
Discovering the best neural architectures in the continuous space
| Fei Tian
If you’re a deep learning practitioner, you may find yourself faced with the same critical question on a regular basis: Which neural network architecture should I choose for my current task? The decision depends on a variety of factors and…
NeurIPS Conference Analytics
In this post, we present historical trend analysis about the conference NeurIPS – Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, taking place in Montréal, Canada from December 2 - 8, 2018. We derive insights from 1996 to the latest available year.
Minimizing trial and error in the drug discovery process
| Alex Gaunt, Marc Brockschmidt, and Miltos Allamanis
In 1928, Alexander Fleming accidentally let his petri dishes go moldy, a mistake that would lead to the breakthrough discovery of penicillin and save the lives of countless people. From these haphazard beginnings, the pharmaceutical industry has grown into one…