In the news | Health Tech Newspaper
Microsoft Research and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT
On day two of HTN Now November, we welcomed the Microsoft Research InnerEye team to share how their AI for medical image analysis programme is benefiting clinicians at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT. Javier Alvarez-Valle, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research and Dr Raj Jena, Group Leader…
In the news | Microsoft News Centre Canada
Providence Health Care collaborates with Microsoft and UBC to mitigate spread of COVID-19
As Canadian health officials continue to double down on mitigating the spread of COVID-19, a multidisciplinary collaboration has begun between Providence Health Care (PHC), Microsoft Canada and computer vision researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Together, these organizations…
Awards | ACM
Ranjita Bhagwan Chosen as Winner of ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman (OCCW) 2020 Award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) India Council has named Dr. Ranjita Bhagwan as the recipient of the 2020 ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman (OCCW) Award (opens in new tab). A selection committee comprising eminent international…
Awards | The Multikernel: A New OS Architecture for Scalable Multicore Systems
Andrew Baumann SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award 2020
Andrew Baumann was awarded the 2020 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for his paper published with his colleagues, The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems, published in the SOSP ’09: Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium…
Awards | ACM SIGOPS
Landon Cox receives SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award
Landon Cox received the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for his paper TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones. This paper, co-authored with his students and colleagues, was published in the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating…
When we run A/B tests, we choose the randomization unit[1]. For example, if we want to evaluate whether a product feature increases user engagement, we will run an A/B test and randomize by user. Typically, A/B tests on websites, mobile…
微软多语言预训练模型T-ULRv2登顶XTREME排行榜
编者按：为进一步实现用 AI 赋能用户体验，微软正在不断拓展多语言模型的边界。近日，由微软图灵团队与微软亚洲研究院联合探索的最新跨语言研究成果——多语言预训练模型 T-ULRv2，登顶 XTREME 排行榜，T-ULRv2 可以在相同向量空间表示和理解94种语言，提升所有语言的产品体验。本文编译自微软亚洲研究院副院长周明和微软副总裁、杰出工程师 Saurabh Tiwary 共同发表的微软研究院博...
Awards | USENIX OSDI 2020
Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI 2020
Our paper titled "Byzantine Ordered Consensus without Byzantine Oligarchy" won the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at the 14th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) conference.
In the news | Microsoft AI
Humans and AI: Meet Hadas
Hadas Bitran has been passionate about healthcare ever since she can remember. Discover how she combined her technical expertise and love of medicine to help coronavirus frontline health workers around the world.