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In the news | Harvard Business Review
What a Year of WFH Has Done to Our Relationships at Work
More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and WFH, new research from Microsoft shows that employees and teams are becoming much more siloed. In particular, connections with people outside our immediate teams has shrunk dramatically, leading to fewer places…
Learning visuomotor policies for autonomous systems from event-based cameras
| Sai Vemprala
Editor’s note: This research was conducted by Sai Vemprala, Senior Researcher, and Ashish Kapoor, Partner Researcher, of Microsoft Research along with Sami Mian (opens in new tab), who was a PhD Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh and an intern…
Awards | USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch receive USENIX 2021 Test of Time Award
Bill Bolosky, John (JD) Douceur, Jay Lorch received the USENIX Test of Time Award at FAST 2021. The award recognizes their paper from 2007, A five-year study of file-system metadata, which has had a lasting impact on the File and…
In the news | OnMSFT
Microsoft Teams could use AI to analyze people’s expressions during video meetings
The Microsoft Research Team has developed a new AI that will automatically analyze people’s expressions during video meetings (via Windows Central). Indeed, the Microsoft Teams bot reads the non-verbal cues of the meeting participants and dynamically spotlights the most expressive…
Awards | IEEE
3 Microsoft researchers elevated to IEEE Fellow for 2021
Steve Hodges, Ivan Tashev and Tom Zimmermann were elevated to the level of IEEE Fellow for 2021. The accomplishments that are being honored are a result of important contributions that led to the advancement or application of engineering, science and…
Three mysteries in deep learning: Ensemble, knowledge distillation, and self-distillation
| Zeyuan Allen-Zhu and Yuanzhi Li
Under now-standard techniques, such as over-parameterization, batch-normalization, and adding residual links, “modern age” neural network training—at least for image classification tasks and many others—is usually quite stable. Using standard neural network architectures and training algorithms (typically SGD with momentum), the…
VinVL: Advancing the state of the art for vision-language models
| Pengchuan Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans understand the world by perceiving and fusing information from multiple channels, such as images viewed by the eyes, voices heard by the ears, and other forms of sensory input. One of the core aspirations in AI is to develop…
Awards | ACM
4 Microsoft Researchers named Fellows of the ACM
Andy Gordon, Dave Maltz, Meredith Ringel Morris and Tony Hoare (retired Microsoft) were named as one of the 95 2020 ACM Fellows for their contributions to computing. Andy is recognized for his contributions to programming languages: their principles, logic, usability,…
Awards | Seagull: An Infrastructure for Load Prediction and Optimized Resource Allocation
Top project in Azure All Hands 2021