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Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science. You can also view the awards archive for recognition before 2016.

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Microsoft Research Introduces ‘Tutel’: A High-Performance MoE Library To Facilitate The Development Of Large-Scale DNN (Deep Neural Network) Models 

by MarTechPost

Tutel is a high-performance MoE library developed by Microsoft researchers to aid in the development of large-scale DNN (Deep Neural Network) models; Tutel is highly optimized for the new Azure NDm A100 v4 series, and Tutel’s diverse and flexible MoE algorithmic support allows developers across AI domains to execute MoE more easily and efficiently.

Z-Code multilingual model

Multilingual translation at scale: 10000 language pairs and beyond 

by Microsoft Translator Blog

Microsoft is on a quest for AI at Scale with high ambition to enable the next generation of AI experiences. The Microsoft Translator ZCode team is working together with Microsoft Project Turing and Microsoft Research Asia to advance language and multilingual support at the core of this initiative. We continue to push frontiers with Multilingual models to support various language scenarios across Microsoft. Last summer, we announced our large scale Multi-Lingual Mixture of Expert model with DeepSpeed that can outperform individual large scale bi-lingual models. Recently, the latest Turing universal language representation model (T-ULRv5), a Microsoft-created model is once again the state of the art and at the top of the Google XTREME public leaderboard at that time. More recently, Microsoft announced the largest Megatron-Turing NLG 530B parameters model.

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The Rise of the Triple Peak Day 

by Microsoft Worklab

If the pandemic has revealed anything about work life, it’s that work and life are melded like never before: morning staff meetings streamed from the breakfast table; in-person presentations before school pickup; and evenings of quiet concentration whenever the opportunity avails.

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Novartis empowers scientists with AI to speed the discovery and development of breakthrough medicines 

by Microsoft Transform

Here’s a cooking story unlike any you’ve heard before. That’s because the chefs are chemists, the ingredients are molecules, and the main course is a new medication designed to defeat illness. At least, that’s Luca Finelli’s snackable description to explain in simple terms how scientists at Novartis are searching for breakthrough medicines powered by artificial intelligence (AI), part of a collaboration with Microsoft to get medicines to patients faster.

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ElectionGuard named to Fast Company “AI and Data: Next Big Things in Tech” list 

by Fast Company

Microsoft and InfernoRed – For securing the democratic process | These companies partnered to create ElectionGuard, an open-source system that keeps data encrypted even while it’s being processed, allowing people to check that their vote has been counted while keeping their ballot secret. It’s designed to work with both electronic voting machines and paper ballot scanners.

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The art of drug design in a technological age 

by Novartis

Novartis is collaborating with Microsoft to apply machine learning to medicinal chemistry — part of an effort to leverage AI to bring treatments to patients more efficiently. There’s a misconception about drug hunting that can mask one of the biggest challenges chemists face as they develop new therapies. As Karin Briner, the Head of Global Discovery Chemistry at Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research (NIBR), explains: “We are not just discoverers. We actually create molecules that have never been made before.”

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ImmuneCODE named to Fast Company “Health: Next Big Things in Tech” list 

by Fast Company

Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech – For using data to create a test for past COVID-19 infection |
The tech giant teamed up with Adaptive Biotech to create ImmuneCODE, an open-source database of immune responses to COVID-19, which they used to develop an affordable T cell test to detect past infection. The companies are using the platform to understand how the immune system reacts to the virus both after previous infection and post-vaccination.

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Microsoft shares more details about its Privacy Preserving Machine Learning initiative 

by Neowin

Ensuring customer privacy and maintaining their trust, at least on paper, has become a priority for many tech firms, especially since Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal back in 2018. Striking a balance between the privacy of individuals while showing them personalized content – sometimes from third-parties – has become an exceedingly daunting task. To tackle this problem, Microsoft Research kickstarted the Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) initiative in collaboration with other Microsoft product teams, and today, it has shared more details on the effort.

Three papers accepted by CIKM ’21! 

by Neuron Campaign for Initialization Guided by Information Bottleneck Theory; Is a Single Model Enough? MuCoS: A Multi-Model Ensemble Learning for Semantic Code Search; AdaptiveGCN: Efficient GCN Through Adaptively Sparsifying Graphs