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Making Play Possible
In the news | The Globe and Mail
The hidden cost of annoying ads is fewer page views
The study found that, indeed, participants gave up their task more quickly when they were shown annoying ads.
Rapid Adaptation and Metalearning with Conditionally Shifted Neurons
| Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Eric Yuan, Soroush Mehri, and Adam Trischler
The Machine Comprehension team at MSR-Montreal recently developed a neural mechanism for metalearning that we call conditionally shifted neurons. Conditionally shifted neurons (CSNs) adapt their activation values rapidly to new data to help neural networks solve new tasks. They do…
Clouds, catapults and life after the end of Moore’s Law with Dr. Doug Burger
Episode 23, May 9, 2018 - Dr. Burger talks about how advances in AI and deep machine learning have placed new acceleration demands on current hardware and computer architecture, offers some observations about the demise of Moore’s Law, and shares…
Awards | The Royal Society
Butler Lampson inducted into The Royal Society
Butler Lampson, a computing legend and Microsoft researcher who helped create the world’s first personal computer, tablets, printers and word processing programs, was invited to join The Royal Society – the UK’s national science academy, with a fellowship of more than 1,600…
Customized neural machine translation with Microsoft Translator
Released in preview this week at Build 2018, the new Microsoft Translator custom feature lets users customize neural machine translation systems. These customizations can be applied to both text and speech translation workflows. Microsoft Translator released neural machine translation (NMT)…
In the news | ZDNet
I do so like AML and HAM
In the news | Microsoft News
Farming’s most important crop may be the knowledge harvested by drones and the intelligent edge
A new partnership between Microsoft and leading drone maker DJI builds on the work both companies are doing with data and agriculture that could make it easier and more affordable for farmers to quickly get the information they need to…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft Build goes gaga for AI: Azure Machine Learning and beyond
Machine learning algorithms are among those that FPGAs can turbo-charge. And that's how an FPGA-based architecture for deployed ML models leads to a service called Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models.