Ada Workshop 2024 全场回顾：一同解锁妳的每一种可能
“如果你想要什么，就勇敢去争取。当然，这不是一场拳击赛，女性在赛场上也不会带来什么伤害，但对于女性来说，我们希望得到更多的机会。”这是天文学泰斗、国内首位女性天文台长叶叔华在世界顶尖科学家“她”论坛上说的一段话。 为了让计算机领域的女孩们看到女性榜样的力量，也给她们更多被看到的机会，微软亚洲研究院自 2016 年开始举办 Ada Workshop，旨在为怀揣科技梦想的高校女生们创造更加宽广的舞台，...
Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications
| Rodrigo Fonseca and Madan Musuvathi
From AI and deep learning to innovations in infrastructure, researchers from Microsoft are bridging the gap between architecture, programming languages, and operating systems to advance the state of the art at ASPLOS 2024.
SIGMA: An open-source mixed-reality system for research on physical task assistance
| Dan Bohus and Sean Andrist
Microsoft recently developed and released the Situated Interactive Guidance, Monitoring, and Assistance (SIGMA) system, an open-source research platform, to enable research and innovation at the intersection of mixed reality and AI.
In the news | GitHub Blog
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment
Copilot Workspace represents a radically new way of building software with natural language, and is expressly designed to deliver–not replace–developer creativity, faster and easier than ever before. With Copilot Workspace we will empower more experienced developers to operate as systems thinkers, and…
In the news | Business Wire
PKSHA harnesses RetNet to develop the first Japanese-English LLM
PKSHA Technology Inc. has developed one of the first Japanese-English Large Language Models (LLM) using Retentive Network (RetNet) in collaboration with Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. Through this LLM development, PKSHA will further enhance the practicality of generative AI in the…
实习派 | 林郅琦：找到真正痛点，在大模型时代发挥系统研究的奠基性价值
“要干一票大的”，这是林郅琦初入微软亚洲研究院实习时定下的目标。从 2018 年到 2024 年，通过微软-中科大联合培养博士项目，林郅琦在研究院度过了宝贵的六年时光，也收获了科研上的全方位成长。 除了产出有影响力的科研成果——以第一作者身份在系统领域顶级学术会议 OSDI 2024 和 HPCA 2024 上发表两篇论文，林郅琦还在 mentor 的指导下探索如何在大模型时代发挥系统研究的奠基性...
In the news | The Times UK
The tiny glass blocks that can preserve your data for centuries
For years governments, hospitals and families have had to use frail magnetic storage for their most important data. Now, scientists have an alternative — that lasts for ever...
In the news | PIM-DL: Expanding the Applicability of Commodity DRAM-PIMs for Deep Learning via Algorithm-System Co-Optimization
Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications
PIM-DL is the first deep learning framework specifically designed for off-the-shelf processing-in-memory (PIM) systems, capable of offloading most computations in neural networks. Its goal is to surmount the computational limitations of PIM hardware by replacing traditional compute-heavy matrix multiplication operations…
In the news | Devex Book Club
Juan M. Lavista Ferres on the power of AI for good
In this episode of the Devex Book Club podcast, Juan M. Lavista Ferres discusses the many ways that AI can have a positive impact on the world, from identifying health trends to tracking beluga whales.