Domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing
| Hoifung Poon and Jianfeng Gao
COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic emerged, tens of thousands of research papers have…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing
COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic emerged, tens of thousands of research papers have…
Microsoft HoloLens 2: Improved Research Mode to facilitate computer vision research
| Marc Pollefeys
Since its launch in November 2019, Microsoft HoloLens 2 has helped enterprises in manufacturing, construction, healthcare, and retail onboard employees more quickly, complete tasks faster, and greatly reduce errors and waste. It sets the high-water mark for intelligent edge devices…
In the news | Addenbrooke's Hospital News
Hancock’s high-tech visit
Health Secretary Matt Hancock today visited Cambridge University Hospitals to see how cutting edge technology can reduce cancer waiting times. Consultant oncologist Dr Raj Jena has been working with Microsoft Research for the past eight years on a machine learning…
In the news | Microsoft Garage Blog
MIT students build Mosaic to explore art across cultures at Microsoft Garage
Art is one of the few languages which transcends barriers of country, culture, and time. Most people view art subjectively through a lens shaped by their experiences and environment. Finding commonalities among pieces from different eras and mediums calls for…
In the news | Microsoft Stories
Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed disease with little data available,…
In the news | Visual Studio Blog
The making of Visual Studio IntelliCode’s first deep learning model: a research journey
Since the first IntelliCode (opens in new tab) code completion model was shipped in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code in 2018, it has become an essential coding assistant for millions of developers around the world. In the past two years, we have been working tirelessly to enable IntelliCode for more programming languages and, in the meantime, researching ways to improve the model precision and coverage to deliver an even more…
Awards | IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
Johannes Schönberger awarded PAMI Mark Everingham Prize
Johannes Schönberger received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize at ECCV 2020 (opens in new tab) for his selfless contribution to developing and maintaining the COLMAP SFM and MVS software library which provides an open-source end-to-end pipeline for 3D reconstruction from…
Awards | Informs
Rothkopf Prize awarded to Yannai Gonczarowski and co-authors
Yannai Gonczarowski, along with co-authors Lior Kovalio, Noam Nisan, and Assaf Romm, receive Rothkopf Prize for Matching for the Israeli 'Mechinot' Gap-Year Programs: Handling Rich Diversity Requirements