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In the news | The Register
Here’s a sprite idea: PC pokers push pixels to LED displays with Microsoft’s new platform for non-verbal comms
Microsoft has dropped a beta of Expressive Pixels, a delightfully retro editor aimed at flinging animated visuals at LED displays. Designed for nonverbal communication, the software has both the worthy goal of improving accessibility as well as being an amusing toy.
In the news | Windows Blog
Microsoft Expressive Pixels: a platform for creativity, inclusion and innovation
You’re sitting at your PC, at home, working remotely. You’ve got a partner who is doing the same. Without requiring you to even turn around, an LED display visible to anyone near you lights up an emoji: a stop sign.…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing
COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic emerged, tens of thousands of research papers have…
In the news | MSPoweruser
Microsoft Research announce TileCode, a game creation app that can run on handhelds
Microsoft Research has announced a new project – Microsoft TileCode, which is a game creation app that allows you to design, code, and play video games directly on low-cost Microsoft MakeCode Arcade gaming handhelds, as well as in the web browser.
In the news | The Denver Channel
How technology is reshaping the way we farm
The oldest industry in the world is merging with the modern world as technology is helping farmers and making farms more sustainable. Farming has always been a part of Ranveer Chandra’s life. When he was a kid, memories were made…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft researchers claim ‘state-of-the-art’ biomedical NLP model
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft researchers propose an AI technique they call domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing (NLP). By compiling a “comprehensive” biomedical (NLP) benchmark from publicly available data sets, the…
Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud with Dr. Stefan Saroiu
Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to Rowhammer, an adversarial attack that can cause data loss and security exploits in everything from smart…
Awards | Synced
ACL 2020 Announces Best Paper & Test-Of-Time Awards
Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Senior Researcher, was awarded the ACL 2020 Best Overall Paper Award for Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList paper with co-authors Tongshuang Wu, University of Washington, Carlos Guestrin and Sameer Singh, University of California…
In the news | VentureBeat
AI model uses smartphone location data to predict power grid usage
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and the University of Washington researchers propose an AI system that uses smartphone location data to forecast electrical load. They say their architecture, which takes into account data from geographical…