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3D telemedicine brings better care to underserved and rural communities, even across continents
Providing healthcare in remote or rural areas is challenging, particularly specialized medicine and surgical procedures. Patients may need to travel long distances just to get to medical facilities and to communicate with caregivers. They may not arrive in time to…
In the news | OpenAI
Democratic Inputs to AI
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.
Research Focus: Week of May 22, 2023
In this edition: New research explores the causal ability of LLMs and DNA storage in thermoresponsive capsules; a talk on human-centered AI; and a CFP for funding for LLM productivity research projects from the Microsoft New Future of Work Initiative.
Large-language models for automatic cloud incident management
| Rujia Wang, Chetan Bansal, Supriyo GHOSH, Tom Zimmermann, Xuchao Zhang, and Saravan Rajmohan
This research was accepted by the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (opens in new tab), which is a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to gather, present, and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and issues in…
Highlights from CHI 2023
The ways in which people are able to interact with technologies can have a profound effect on a technology’s utility and adoptability. Building computing tools and services around people’s natural styles of work, communication, and play can give technology the…
Microsoft at EuroSys 2023: Systems innovation across the stack to help support an easier, faster, safer, and smarter cloud
| Rodrigo Fonseca
EuroSys 2023 (opens in new tab) is the premier systems conference in Europe, and 2023 marks its 18th edition. Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS Europe and hosted May 8 to May 12, the conference covers a wide range of topics, including…
Research Focus: Week of May 8, 2023
In this issue: Microsoft researchers win four more awards; AutoRXN automates calculations of molecular systems; LLM accelerator losslessly improves the efficiency of autoregressive decoding; a frequency domain approach to predict power system transients.
Awards | Ivan Tashev receives 2022 IEEE SPS Industrial Innovation Award
Ivan Tashev receives 2023 IEEE SPS Industrial Innovation Award
Dr. Ivan Tashev named recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing society “Industrial Innovation Award” for 2022 with citation “For outstanding contributions to microphone array and speech enhancement systems.”
In the news | Microsoft FLAML on GitHub
Surpassing 1 Million Downloads – A Retrospective and a Look into the Future
This week, FLAML has reached a significant milestone: 1 million downloads. Originating as an intern research project within Microsoft Research, FLAML has grown into an open-source library used widely across the industry and supported by an active community. As we…