Microsoft Research Podcast

Abstracts: September 30, 2024

September 30, 2024 | Amber Tingle, Daniela Massiceti, and Martin Grayson
The personalizable object recognizer Find My Things was recently recognized for accessible design. Researcher Daniela Massiceti and software development engineer Martin Grayson talk about the research project’s origins and the tech advances making it possible.
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    What’s Your Story: Lex Story 

    August 22, 2024 | Johannes Gehrke and Lex Story

    Model maker and fabricator Lex Story helps bring research to life through prototyping. He discusses his take on failure; the encouragement and advice that has supported his pursuit of art and science; and the sabbatical that might inspire his next career move.

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    Abstracts: August 15, 2024 

    August 15, 2024 | Amber Tingle, Shrey Jain, and Zoë Hitzig

    Advanced AI may make it easier for bad actors to deceive others online. A multidisciplinary research team is exploring one solution: a credential that allows people to show they’re not bots without sharing identifying information. Shrey Jain and Zoë Hitzig explain.

  3. What's Your Story podcast | Emre Kiciman

    What’s Your Story: Emre Kiciman 

    August 1, 2024 | Johannes Gehrke and Emre Kiciman

    Emre Kiciman shares how some keen observations and a desire to have front-end impact led him to make the jump from systems and networking to computational social science and now causal analysis and large-scale AI—and how systems thinking still impacts his work.

  4. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts

    Abstracts: July 29, 2024 

    July 29, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga and Li Lyna Zhang

    A lack of appropriate data, decreased model performance, and other obstacles have made it difficult to expand the input language models can receive. Li Lyna Zhang introduces LongRoPE, a method capable of extending content windows to more than 2 million tokens.

  5. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts

    Abstracts: July 18, 2024 

    July 18, 2024 | Gretchen Huizinga and Arindam Mitra

    Senior Researcher Arindam Mitra introduces AgentInstruct. Using raw data sources, the automated multi-agent framework can create diverse, high-quality synthetic data at scale for the post-training of small and large language models.

  6. Microsoft Research Podcast | What's Your Story | Weishung Liu

    What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu 

    May 30, 2024 | Johannes Gehrke and Weishung Liu

    Principal PM Manager Weishung Liu shares how a career delivering products and customer experiences aligns with her love of people and storytelling and how—despite efforts to defy the expectations that come with growing up in Silicon Valley—she landed in tech.