Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
ARDEN HILLS, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — July 15, 2020 — Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a multiyear strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and enhance the supply chain,…
UCLH and UCL researchers are working with Microsoft to see if chest imaging data can identify better who should shield in potential future COVID-19 outbreaks. With concerns that current shielding guidelines miss out on people…
Microsoft is using unsupervised learning techniques to extract knowledge about disruptions to cloud services. In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at the company detail SoftNER, a framework that has been deployed internally…
At ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra published a paper presenting a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm called HOMER that addresses three main problems in real-world RL problem: (i) exploration, (ii) decoding…
Last week, Microsoft unveiled Project Freta, a cloud-based malware detection service (via Bleeping Computer). The project aims to detect malware that previously went undetected on Linux cloud VM images. It’s a free service from Microsoft…
COVID-19, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has put health-care systems worldwide into crisis.1 The speed with which health-care resources have been consumed has in some countries exceeded supply of…
Boffins in Microsoft Research has pulled the covers off Project Freta, a free service aimed at spotting memory malfeasance. A technology demonstration named for the street in Warsaw, Poland where Marie Curie was born, Freta…
Microsoft Research has announced a cloud-based malware detection service called Project Freta to detect rootkits, cryptominers, and previously undetected malware strains lurking in your Linux cloud VM images.
“What would happen if a commercial cloud could guarantee the capture of malware, no matter how expensive or exotic, in volatile memory?” Microsoft has built an absolute behemoth of a cloud virtual machine (VM) security…
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…
