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Diagram showing GODEL’s architecture. The environment of the dialog system consists of both structured and unstructured content, which it uses to retrieve information. This source content, which we term “grounding,” is updated and repeatedly used by GODEL to produce a new response after each user input.
Microsoft Research Blog

| Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Lars Liden, Chris Brockett, Zhou Yu, and Jianfeng Gao

They make restaurant recommendations, help us pay bills, and remind us of appointments. Many people have come to rely on virtual assistants and chatbots to perform a wide range of routine tasks. But what if a single dialog agent, the…

Awards | Green Good Design

Project Eclipse recognized with a 2022 Green Good Design Award for their Eclipse Air Sensor Transit Shelters Chicago Deployment. In July 2021, the Project Eclipse team at Microsoft Urban Innovation Research began a partnership with JCDecaux Chicago, LLC and team…

In the news | Microsoft News Center

DAVOS, Switzerland: May 24, 2022 – AGRA and leading technology provider Microsoft, have announced expanding their partnership to advance digital agricultural transformation in Africa. The partnership, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding on the margins of the World Economic Forum…

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Microsoft Research Blog

| Hamid Palangi and Dipankar Ray

It’s a well-known challenge that large language models (LLMs)—growing in popularity thanks to their adaptability across a variety of applications—carry risks. Because they’re trained on large amounts of data from across the internet, they’re capable of generating inappropriate and harmful…

Awards | TOGA: A Neural Method for Test Oracle Generation

In the news | CoinDesk

By using Web 3’s building blocks to represent social identity, the ecosystem can overcome its current limitations and bring about a decentralized society. Web 3 has stunned the world by forging a parallel system of finance of unprecedented flexibility and…

In the news | Valor Econômico

Pergunte ao brasileiro Henrique Malvar qual seu trabalho atual e ele lhe contará um episódio passado recentemente em Cingapura…

Diagram showing Ekya’s architecture. Video data flows from a series of cameras into specialized, lightweight inference models and shared resource pools before reaching the edge.
Microsoft Research Blog

| Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Yuanchao Shu, Nikolaos Karianakis, Kevin Hsieh, and Victor Bahl

Edge computing has come of age, with deployments enabling many applications that process data from IoT sensors and cameras. In 2017, we identified the symbiotic relationship between edge computing and video analytics in an article (opens in new tab), noting…

Awards | IEEE VR 2022

Mar Gonzalez-Franco received the 2022 IEEE VGTC Significant New Researcher award in recognition of her research and leadership contributions in the field of Virtual Reality and spatial computing, in particular for her work on Avatars and Haptics. The VGTC Virtual…