Playing to the crowd and other social media mandates with Dr. Nancy Baym
Episode 41, September 12, 2018 - Dr. Nancy Baym shares her insights on a host of topics ranging from the arduous maintenance requirements of social media, to the dialectic tension between connection and privacy, to the funhouse mirror nature of…
Deep Learning Indaba 2018: Strengthening African machine learning
| Tempest van Schaik
At the 30th conference on Neural Information Processing in 2016, one of the world’s foremost gatherings on machine learning, there was not a single accepted paper from a researcher at an African institution. In fact, for the last decade, the…
In the news | The Guardian
Joseph Stiglitz on project InnerEye
It must be hard for Joseph Stiglitz to remain an optimist in the face of the grim future he fears may be coming. The Nobel laureate and former chief economist at the World Bank has thought carefully about how artificial…
Computer Vision at Microsoft: Uniting fundamental research and industry-defining products
| Andrew Fitzgibbon
Microsoft is very proud to be a diamond sponsor of ECCV 2018 and we’re in Munich, Germany from September 8-14 with the global computer vision community to share our research and to learn from our fellow contributors. At Microsoft, in…
Machine learning, data mining and rethinking knowledge at KDD 2018
KDD 2018, the 24th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining took place in London, United Kingdom on August 19-23 in the heart of London’s historic Royal Docks. KDD is one of the top conferences in the machine learning…
成为机器学习大神，你不能不懂数学
编者按：如何自学机器学习？需要哪些数理基础？怎样从入门到进阶，成就大神之路？在这篇书单推荐中，微软亚洲研究院机器学习组研究员们从机器学习综述、算法优化、理论延展、数学基础四大方面入手，为大家提供一份机器学习的“完全指南”。 在这个言必谈“AI”的时代，机器学习是重要的算法内核，而数学是理解和改进机器学习算法的必经之路。因此，我将在这篇文章中梳理机器学习的关键模块和与之联系的数学理论分支，列出一份机...
Putting the cloud under the sea with Ben Cutler
Episode 40, September 5, 2018 - In today’s podcast we find out a bit about what else the Special Projects team is up to, and then we hear all about Project Natick and how Ben and his team conceived of,…
Awards | IIT Dehli
Venkat Padmanabhan receives IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award
Venkat Padmanabhan, Deputy Managing Director of MSR India, received the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award. Venkat’s research interests are broadly in networked and mobile systems, and his work over the years has led to highly-cited papers and paper awards, technology…