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In the news | Wired
The Effort to Build the Mathematical Library of the Future
Every day, dozens of like-minded mathematicians gather on an online forum called Zulip to build what they believe is the future of their field. They’re all devotees of a software program called Lean. It’s a “proof assistant” that, in principle,…
Awards | 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Kori Inkpen receives 2020 Lasting impact Award at CSCW
The Lasting Impact Award goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on CSCW as a field. Nominations are taken from the community, and the decision is made by a committee of…
Awards | Muse: Multi-query Event Trend Aggregation
Best short paper award in CIKM’20
In the news | SearchEngineLand
Bing applies AI and natural language models to autosuggest, People Also Ask
Bing is now using natural language generation models (models that generate text) to improve its autosuggest and People Also Ask (PAA) features, the company announced Wednesday. It is also expanding the use of natural language representation models to extend its…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft details how it improved Bing’s autosuggest recommendations with AI
Earlier in the year, Microsoft detailed the ways Bing has benefited from AI at Scale, an initiative to apply large-scale AI and supercomputing to language processing across Microsoft’s apps, services, and managed products. AI at Scale chiefly bolstered the search…
In the news | Bing Blogs
Introducing the next wave of AI at Scale innovations in Bing
Bing users around the globe perform hundreds of millions of search queries every day. These queries are diverse in many ways, from the intent the users are seeking to fulfill, to the languages and regions where these queries are issued.…
In the news | Microsoft AI Blog for Business & Tech
Microsoft to engage with customers to further develop Turing natural language models
As part of the companywide AI at Scale initiative, Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference that it plans to begin working with select customers to further develop its Turing natural language representation (NLR) models. AI at Scale, which was announced…
In the news | PCMag
Microsoft Is Trapping Bugs in Robotic Smart Traps to Help Prevent the Next Pandemic
As COVID-19 drags on, a big question is how best to prevent major spread of the next pandemic? At Microsoft, they’re looking to the Azure-based Premonition Cloud, a global sensor network and data pool that analyzes bug activity for signs…
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft expands its Premonition mosquito-tracking outbreak prediction system
Five years after launching an experiment to see if advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could spot the signs of a disease outbreak before it happens, Microsoft says it’s ramping up Project Premonition to create an honest-to-goodness biothreat protection network.