Awards | ACM SIGCOMM
ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Test of Time Award
"Data-Center TCP (DCTCP)", by Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David Maltz, Jitendra Padhye, Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta, and Murari Sridharan, in ACM SIGCOMM 2010.
Awards | The Top Innovators
The Top Innovators in Agriculture 2021
Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Azure, earns a "Highly Commended" rating on the Top Innovators in Agriculture list 2021 for Microsoft FarmBeats.
In the news | The Hill
How human-centered tech can beat COVID-19 through contact tracing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working on a proposal to massively scale-up testing and contact tracing to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. This effort will involve identifying all of those infected with the coronavirus and notifying everyone…
We need to take a good hard look at the problems we’re solving before we get into solutioning. Yes, coming up with solutions is the interesting and exciting piece but once you’re on this path it’s very hard to turn…
In the news | Talking Beats
The American Health Apparatus and Public Health Transparency with Microsoft’s Dr. Jim Weinstein
"As I scientist I ask-- where's the data on COVID vaccines? How many women, how many men, how many shots? Which arm? Did it cause their diabetes to get better? Did it affect their time off of work? What kind…
Awards | ICDM 2021
Wei Chen is awarded Highest Impact Paper Award at ICDM’2021
Wei Chen was awarded the 2021 IEEE ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award for his paper, IRIE: Scalable and Robust Influence Maximization in Social Networks - Microsoft Research.
This year six papers were chosen as recipients of the Outstanding Paper Award. The committee selected these papers due to their excellent clarity, insight, creativity, and potential for lasting impact. Additional details about the paper selection process are provided below.…
Unlocking new dimensions in image-generation research with Manifold Matching via Metric Learning
| Mengyu Dai and Junwon Park
Generative image models offer a unique value by creating new images. Such images can be sharp super-resolution versions of existing images or even realistic-looking synthetic photographs. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and their variants have demonstrated pioneering success with the framework…
In the news | MarTechPost
Microsoft Research Introduces ‘Tutel’: A High-Performance MoE Library To Facilitate The Development Of Large-Scale DNN (Deep Neural Network) Models
Tutel is a high-performance MoE library developed by Microsoft researchers to aid in the development of large-scale DNN (Deep Neural Network) models; Tutel is highly optimized for the new Azure NDm A100 v4 series, and Tutel’s diverse and flexible MoE algorithmic…