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In the news | The Indian Express
Our bet on deep tech and frugal innovation will deliver a huge societal impact
Our bet on deep tech and frugal innovation will deliver a huge societal impact: Sriram Rajamani, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research India. In an interview to indianexpress.com, Sriram Rajamani talks about two such deep tech projects — Extreme Classification and…
In the news | TIME
Microsoft on the TIME100 AI list
This morning, TIME released its first “TIME100 Artificial Intelligence” list online, which includes Kevin Scott, Jaime Teevan, Kate Crawford, and Kalika Bali.
AI Frontiers: AI in India and beyond with Sriram Rajamani
| Ashley Llorens and Sriram Rajamani
In this episode of the Microsoft Research Podcast, Managing Director of Microsoft Research India Sriram Rajamani discusses how generative AI is impacting the lab’s approach to research and how the country’s many languages can help advance conversational systems.
Podcast: HyWay- Enabling Mingling in the Hybrid World
The COVID pandemic forced most of us into a new paradigm of work from home and a number of tools to cater to remote work became popular. However, the post pandemic environment has seen interesting scenarios with some people preferring…
Research Focus: Week of August 14, 2023
In this issue: HyWay enables hybrid mingling; Auto-Tables transforms non-relational tables into standard relational forms; training dense retrievers to identify high-quality in-context examples for LLM; improving pronunciation assessment in CAPT.
In the news | TIME
The Workers Behind AI Rarely See Its Rewards. This Indian Startup Wants to Fix That
In a TIME cover story, Kalika Bali, linguist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, spoke to Billy Perrigo about the importance of designing AI technology without language barriers. Learn about our innovative work on ethical data collection with Karya.
Research Focus: Week of June 19, 2023
In this issue: Our new Responsible AI Maturity Model; FoundWright helps “re-find” web pages; Trace-guided Inductive Synthesis of Recursive Functional Programs; a wait-free algorithm for weak reference counting; and new research on concurrency testing.
AI Frontiers: The future of causal reasoning with Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma
| Ashley Llorens, Emre Kiciman, and Amit Sharma
Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma join Ashley Llorens to discuss the causal capabilities of LLMs and ongoing journeys with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in the newest episode of the Microsoft Research Podcast series, “AI Frontiers.”
REACT — A synergistic cloud-edge fusion architecture
| Srinivasan Iyengar and Venkat Padmanabhan
This research paper was accepted by the eighth ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (opens in new tab) (IoTDI), which is a premier venue on IoT. The paper describes a framework that leverages cloud resources to execute large…