Summer Internship 2021
Seeking Research Interns in computer science, engineering, design, social, health, ML, and environmental science to join us this Summer. Lines of research focus on climate change and mitigating the environmental impact of our increasingly urban world.
Awards | Seagull: An Infrastructure for Load Prediction and Optimized Resource Allocation
Top project in Azure All Hands 2021
Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark
| Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, and Weizhu Chen
Natural language understanding (NLU) is one of the longest running goals in AI, and SuperGLUE is currently among the most challenging benchmarks for evaluating NLU models. The benchmark consists of a wide range of NLU tasks, including question answering, natural…
In the news | VentureBeat
AI models from Microsoft and Google already surpass human performance on the SuperGLUE language benchmark
When SuperGLUE was introduced, there was a nearly 20-point gap between the best-performing model and human performance on the leaderboard. But as of early January, two models — one from Microsoft called DeBERTa and a second from Google called T5…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Introducing Azure Health Bot—an evolution of Microsoft Healthcare Bot with new functionality
Since the start of the pandemic, Microsoft Healthcare Bot has been at the leading edge of helping organizations be more agile with patient engagement. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Walgreens, Premera, and Providence are just a few of…
Many researchers have documented the importance of color in shaping perceptions, providing context, and helping users connect with an application. We took a more focused approach recently in examining color as relates to icon sets. Our goal was to understand how color might affect user comprehension, efficiency, and satisfaction. At stake: The satisfaction of long-time product users who…
Awards | Meta Module Network for Compositional Visual Reasoning
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, WACV 2021
Awards | IEEE Signal Processing Society
Rico Malvar receives Amar G. Bose Industrial Leader Award
The IEEE SPS awarded Rico Malvar the Society’s prestigious Amar G. Bose Industrial Leader Award, for his contributions to multimedia signal processing and industrial research leadership. The award recognizes an industry business or technical leader whose leadership has resulted in…
Awards | International Association for Pattern Recognition
Katsu Ikeuchi receives IAPR Fellow Award
Katsushi Ikeuchi received the IAPR Fellow Award 2020 for his fundamental contributions to computer vision applied to robotics and man-machine interaction. The prestigious IAPR Fellow Award was introduced in 1994 and since then is biennially conferred on persons to acknowledge…