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Microsoft launches Covid-19 vaccine dashboard that tracks administration of vaccines aligned with federal goal
As the world reaches the next stage in our collective fight against Covid-19 with the availability of vaccines, we’ve thrown in our support by mobilizing our AI for Health data science team, in collaboration with Dr. Ashish K. Jha at Brown School…
Editor’s note: To promote the implementation of the “AI + industry” concept and support more companies to ride the current wave of digital transformation, Microsoft Research Asia established the Innovation Partnership in 2017. Today, the partnership has expanded to 27…
Microsoft Vision Model ResNet-50 combines web-scale data and multi-task learning to achieve state of the art
| Zygmunt Lenyk and Junwon Park
Pretrained vision models accelerate deep learning research and bring down the cost of performing computer vision tasks in production. By pretraining one large vision model to learn general visual representation of images, then transferring the learning across multiple downstream tasks,…
In the news | Consequential Podcast (Season 3, Episode 8)
Consequential Podcast: Language, Power and NLP
Natural language processing is the branch of artificial intelligence that allows computers to recognize, analyze and replicate human language. But when it’s hard enough for humans to say what they mean most of the time, it’s even harder for computers…
Human beings are creatures of habit*. Our routine behaviors are repeated regularly, often without our conscious awareness. When designing for AI experiences, such as voice or assistive features, we are competing with long-standing habits that people have formed to complete tasks. For teams working in this space, changing these habits means connecting a user’s problem…
Introduction The computation of deep neural networks (DNNs) is usually abstracted as data flow graphs (DFGs) that consist of operators and the dependency between them. This representation naturally contains two levels of parallelism. The first level is the inter-operator parallelism,…
Editor's note: How can we assess a person’s language proficiency level? In addition to making assessments through objective questions, subjective scoring is also required, such as essay scoring and oral evaluation. However, subjective evaluation is often costly, and the results…
In the news | NTT Data
NTT DATA Using AI Diagnostic Imaging Technology to Increase Access to Tuberculosis Examinations for 100,000 People in India
NTT DATA Corporation (opens in new tab), a leading digital business and IT services provider, in cooperation with the AI for Health1 program from Microsoft Corporation through its strategic investee company DeepTek Medical Imaging Pvt Ltd2 hereinafter referred to as "DeepTek”, in…
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Tracking the effects of glacial melting
We don’t have time for things to move at a glacial pace, especially with melting ice! Our #AIForGood research lab, @icimod, @Mila_Quebec, and @UWMadison are using #OpenData to monitor glaciers. Check it out.