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Bichlien Nguyen is one of the ACS 2022 Talented Twelve
Meet the Talented 12 class of 2022. These early-career researchers are using chemistry to make the world a better place. They’re building better batteries, transforming pollution into products, and deciphering the human genome, to name just a few of their…
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A street-by-street view of digital inequity in the United States
We often say that you can’t fix a problem you don’t understand. Today, Microsoft is releasing a new Digital Equity Data Dashboard to help create better understanding of the economic opportunity gaps in towns, cities and neighborhoods across the United…
Since 2019, researchers at Microsoft Research Asia have been exploring Document AI and have completed a series of work on LayoutLM/LayoutLMv2/LayoutXLM, TrOCR, MarkupLM, etc., achieving breakthroughs in a range of typical tasks such as object detection, information extraction, and document…
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Online math tutoring service uses AI to help boost students’ skills and confidence
Online math tutoring service uses AI to help boost students’ skills and confidence - The AI Blog (microsoft.com) highlights the use of causal ML models developed by researchers at the Microsoft Research Cambridge Lab by a UK-based online tutoring service,…
OSDI 2022 | 速来围观！微软亚洲研究院计算机系统领域最新论文！
编者按：OSDI（Operating Systems Design and Implementation）是计算机系统领域最顶级的学术会议之一，汇集了全球计算机科学家们对于计算机系统的前瞻性思考。第16届 OSDI 于2022年7月11日至13日召开，本次会议共有253篇论文投稿，接收49篇，接收率为19.4%。本文中，我们将分享微软亚洲研究院被 OSDI 2022收录的3篇论文，希望可以帮助大家...
In the past two years, there have been numerous papers written on Transformer, and researchers are designing Transformer models for all kinds of tasks. However, is attention, the core module of Transformer, really stronger than convolution? This paper may bring…
科学智能（AI4Science）赋能科学发现的第五范式
未来十年，深度学习注定将会给自然科学带来变革性的影响。其结果具有潜在的深远意义，可能会极大地提高我们在差异巨大的空间和时间尺度上对自然现象进行建模和预测的能力。这种能力是否代表着科学发现新范式的曙光？ 图灵奖获得者、前微软技术院士 Jim Gray 用“四种范式”描述了科学发现的历史演变。第一范式的起源可以追溯到几千年前，它纯粹是经验性的，基于对自然现象的直接观察。虽然在这些观察中，有许多规律是显...
AI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery
| Christopher Bishop
Editor’s note, Oct. 20, 2023 – The post was updated to remove information related to the Amsterdam lab, as those details have since changed. Over the coming decade, deep learning looks set to have a transformational impact on the natural…
AI与教育的深度融合，究竟什么是核心问题？
编者按：AI+教育是近年来教育行业乃至整个社会都非常关注的热点话题。相比于 AI 在其他领域的落地应用，AI+教育的进展一直相对缓慢。作为未来教育领域发展的大势所趋，AI+教育到底面临怎样艰难的挑战？ 此前，微软亚洲研究院与华东师范大学就基于双方在各自领域的领先优势展开战略合作，希望依托计算机技术推进教育与人工智能的深度融合。目前，双方的合作已经形成了在学术界与产业界均具有引导性的创新研究成果，中...