Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft’s annual Hackathon is a company-wide event that encourages employees to partner with colleagues from different teams and dream up projects that normally would never land on their desks.
Large pretrained language models have improved the state-of-the-art on a range of natural language processing tasks, chiefly because they’re able to learn contextual representations from text without supervision. In a preprint paper, a team of researchers…
When Erin Moreland set out to become a research zoologist, she envisioned days spent sitting on cliffs, drawing seals and other animals to record their lives for efforts to understand their activities and protect their…
Microsoft Research have posted a video on a project called VROOM for Virtual Robot Overlay for Online Meetings. Microsoft imagines users being able to visit locations via a telepresence robot and being represented remotely via…
Main challenge for e-commerce transaction fraud prevention is that fraud patterns are rather dynamic and diverse. This paper introduces two innovative methods, fraud islands (link analysis) and multi-layer machine learning model, which can effectively tackle…
Last week, a Dutch court ordered the government in the Netherlands to stop using a machine-learning algorithm for detecting welfare fraud, citing human rights violations. The system, called System Risk Indicator (SyRI) in English, was…
There’s a new giant AI language model in town: enter Microsoft’s Turing-NLG system, which apparently contains a whopping 17 billion parameters, making it the largest publicly known model of its class yet.
Transformer-based language generation models have enabled better conversational applications. Though they still have their shortcomings, which were recently exposed by a team at MIT, researchers continue improving them to build better, larger, and more robust…
