New Future of Work: Meeting and collaborating in a remote and hybrid world with Jaime Teevan and Abigail Sellen
In this episode of The New Future of Work series of the podcast, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Abigail Sellen, Deputy Lab Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge in the United Kingdom, explore the dynamics of meetings and collaborations in the…
In the news | Microsoft Open Source Blog
Journey to optimize large scale transformer model inference with ONNX Runtime
With its resource-efficient and high-performance nature, ONNX Runtime helped us meet the need of deploying a large-scale multi-layer generative transformer model for code, a.k.a., GPT-C, to empower IntelliCode with the whole line of code completion suggestions in Visual Studio and…
CausalCity: Introducing a high-fidelity simulation with agency for advancing causal reasoning in machine learning
| Daniel McDuff, Yale Song, Sai Vemprala, Vibhav Vineet, Shuang Ma, and Ashish Kapoor
The ability to reason about causality, and ask ``what would happen if…?’’ is one property that sets human intelligence apart from artificial intelligence. Modern AI algorithms perform well on clearly defined pattern recognition tasks but fall short generalizing in the…
Inclusion in user research is about more than increasing gender and ethnic diversity in the field. Inclusion also means recognizing non-traditional backgrounds and using the skills and experiences that people with different viewpoints can offer. I want to share how my…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Empowering better care, everywhere, for everyone with Retail+Health
Over the past year, the pandemic fundamentally changed several industries and impacted the means of consumption and distribution for goods and services globally. With the introduction of social distancing, the decline of indoor interactions and transactions, and unparalleled strain on…
Awards | PLDI 2021 Conference
Ben Zorn awarded SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award 2021
Ben Zorn was honored with the SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award 2021 having served the programming language community for many years and in many capacities. He also has mentored many of his work colleagues and visiting students/professors at Microsoft Research, who…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Microsoft named Principal Partner for COP26
Time is running out on efforts to stabilize our global climate system. Doing so will require transitioning our world to a net zero carbon economy by 2050. Failing to do so risks unprecedented social and economic disruption. This year, the…
Microsoft LReasoner leads the ReClor challenge on logical reasoning
| Natural Language Computing Group
For many years AI researchers have sought to build upon traditional machine learning, which trains technology to process facts and learn from them, and develop machine reasoning, in which programs apply logic to data and solve problems – comparable to…
New Future of Work: Driving innovation via cross-company research with Jaime Teevan and Brent Hecht
In this episode of The New Future of Work series of the podcast, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht of the Experiences and Devices group in Microsoft share how an internal SharePoint document led to…