ACM announces creation of Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award
ACM – the Association for Computing Machinery – has created a new major award to honor 2009 A.M. Turing Laureate Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker. The award honors Thacker’s pioneering contributions to computing, considered by the community to have propelled the…
Building a global AI supercomputer – The 2018 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
| Donald Kossmann
We live in the age of the intelligent edge and intelligent cloud. Data is collected at the edge using billions of small devices. The data is pre-processed at the edge and shipped in a filtered and aggregated form to the…
Machine Learning for fair decisions
| Miro Dudík, John Langford, Hanna Wallach, and Alekh Agarwal
Over the past decade, machine learning systems have begun to play a key role in many high-stakes decisions: Who is interviewed for a job? Who is approved for a bank loan? Who receives parole? Who is admitted to a school?…
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Machine Learning for fair decisions
New research focuses on the challenges of machine learning biases, and provides a provably and empirically sound method for turning any common classifier into a 'fair' classifier according to any of a wide range of fairness definitions.
Today, we are pleased to announce MSRA Collaborative Research 2019 Call For Proposals. The goal is to invite faculty members or researchers in Asia to propose any Open Collaborative Research topics related to current Microsoft research areas to advance the…
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Microsoft’s TextWorld gives AI a Zork-like challenge
While the rest of the Microsoft world squeaked with excitement about new hardware and free collaboration tools, the boffins at Redmond's Montréal Research Lab have looked to history as way to help Reinforcement Learning (RL) researchers skill up their AI…