In the news | Microsoft Asia News Center
Microsoft Research Asia partners with universities in Asia to build OpenNetLab, empowering AI-assisted networking research
Microsoft Research Asia announced the establishment of OpenNetLab (opens in new tab), an open networking community and platform in collaboration with multiple universities in Asia, including academia from China, Korea and Singapore.
More and more people are relying on instructional videos, such as cooking videos, to teach themselves skills with “how to” instructions. An important research question is then, in place of watching the entire video, can we provide a type of…
In the news | MSPoweruser
Microsoft’s new vision-language (VL) system significantly surpasses human performance
Vision-language (VL) systems allow searching the relevant images for a text query (or vice versa) and describing the content of an image using natural language. In general, a VL system uses an image encoding module and a vision-language fusion module.…
In the news | The Health-Tech Podcast
The Health-Tech Podcast: #166: Aditya Nori, Lead in Health Intelligence at Microsoft Research Cambridge
On this weeks Sunday Session I chat to Aditya Nori, lead of the Health Intelligence theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where their mission is to transform the practice of medicine via trusted and human-centred AI. In the past, Aditya has…
In the news | GOV.UK Department of Health and Social Care
AI at the forefront of efforts to treat coronavirus patients
Patients with COVID-19 are set to benefit from faster treatment, improved outcomes and shorter hospital stays thanks to the use of the latest artificial intelligence. 1) AI imaging database will improve diagnosis of patients presenting with COVID-19 symptoms 2) Increased…
Awards | A Learning-from-Observation Framework: One-Shot Robot Teaching for Grasp-Manipulation-Release Household Operations
SICE Young Investigator Award
In the news | Lichess Blog
Introducing Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine
We're happy to announce Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine that was 100% trained on Lichess games. Maia is an engine built in the style of Leela that learns from human games instead of self-play games, with the goal…
用AI打开生物学研究的另一扇窗
编者按：在生物学研究领域，传统基于分子、细胞、生理学实验方法进行的研究通常被称作湿实验，如今这些传统的生物学方法在某种程度上都遇到了瓶颈，而被称作干实验的计算机模拟和生物学相结合的研究，正在利用 AI、大数据等创新手段，为生物学研究打开了另一扇窗。今天就让我们一起来看一看三位在微软亚洲研究院从事计算生物学研究的研究员的跨界经历。 2020年，一场突如其来的新冠疫情让生物学与 AI 等技术的融合进一...
In the news | National Geographic
Greener air travel will depend on these emerging technologies
Here’s a word you may have overlooked in 2020: flygskam, a Swedish term for the feeling of being ashamed to fly. In a year that saw a 66 percent decrease in flights, compared to 2019, you might think that flygskam…