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Can Big Tech Serve Democracy?
Two new books about technology and the fate of democracy begin by describing the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. They are right to see that fateful day as a turning point…
News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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You get what you measure: New NLU benchmarks for few-shot learning and robustness evaluation
Recent progress in natural language understanding (NLU) has been driven in part by the availability of large-scale benchmarks that provide an environment for researchers to test and measure the performance of AI models. Most of…
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Xing Xie was announced as IEEE Computer Society 2022 Fellow
Xing Xie was announced as IEEE Computer Society 2022 Fellow for contributions to spatial data mining and recommendation systems.
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Deepak Narayanan and Amar Phanishayee receive best student paper award
The Super Computing 2021 organizers selected Deepak Narayanan and Amar Phanishayee’s paper, Efficient Large-Scale Language Model Training on GPU Clusters Using Megatron-LM, as the best student paper for its quality and potential impact.
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Neeraj Kayal awarded Infosys 2021 Prize for Mathematical Sciences
The Infosys Prize 2021 in Mathematical Sciences is awarded to Dr. Neeraj Kayal of Microsoft Research lab, Bengaluru, for his outstanding contributions to Computational Complexity. His extensive, innovative work on algebraic computation includes the development…
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ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Test of Time Award
“Data-Center TCP (DCTCP)”, by Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David Maltz, Jitendra Padhye, Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta, and Murari Sridharan, in ACM SIGCOMM 2010.
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The Top Innovators in Agriculture 2021
Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Azure, earns a “Highly Commended” rating on the Top Innovators in Agriculture list 2021 for Microsoft FarmBeats.
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How human-centered tech can beat COVID-19 through contact tracing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working on a proposal to massively scale-up testing and contact tracing to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. This effort will involve identifying all of those infected with…
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The American Health Apparatus and Public Health Transparency with Microsoft’s Dr. Jim Weinstein
“As I scientist I ask– where’s the data on COVID vaccines? How many women, how many men, how many shots? Which arm? Did it cause their diabetes to get better? Did it affect their time…
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Wei Chen is awarded Highest Impact Paper Award at ICDM’2021
Wei Chen was awarded the 2021 IEEE ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award for his paper, IRIE: Scalable and Robust Influence Maximization in Social Networks – Microsoft Research.