In the news | BBC
Project Origin: Securing Trust in Media
Project Origin is part of a wide collaboration between media and tech organisations to develop signals that can be tied to media content to allow audiences to determine where content has come from and check for any manipulation or changes…
In the news | CNBC Squawk Box Asia
CNBC Squawk Box Asia live broadcast interview with Ranveer Chandra
Ranveer Chandra is interviewed as part of their “food week” to speak to technology trends in agriculture and how Microsoft is innovating to help industry / growers to sustainably nourish the world.
编者按：近年来，基础模型（foundation models，也被称为预训练模型）的研究从技术层面逐渐趋向于大一统（the big convergence），不同人工智能领域（例如自然语言处理、计算机视觉、语音处理、多模态等）的基础模型从技术上都依赖三个方面：一是 Transformers 成为不同领域和问题的通用神经网络架构和建模方式，二是生成式预训练（generative pre-traini...
实习派 | 何灏迪：大四一年从初出茅庐到顶会论文作者
去年 8 月，来自中国科学技术大学计算机科学与技术专业的何灏迪，通过微软创新人才学院项目来到微软亚洲研究院视觉计算组实习。从没有做过完整的科研项目，到完成一作论文并被 ECCV 2022 接收，何灏迪实现了自己初入微软亚洲研究院时立下的目标：在这里完成自己的科研项目。与此同时，他也收获了自己的第一篇国际顶会论文。 一年前，看到微软创新人才学院的招生通知，正在读大三的何灏迪就毫不犹豫地投出了申请，“...
星桥启航 | 毕业季：学长学姐请回答！
你是否手握名校offer但计划延期入学，想拥有一段心无旁骛的研究经历？你是否正在思考如何通过间隔年提高自己的科研竞争力？你是否还在规划自己的未来想听听过来人的建议？ 又是一年毕业季小编为大家找到了三位微软亚洲研究院“星桥计划”优秀的学长学姐或许可以从他们的故事和经历中找到你心中问题的答案 王芷若：首先微软亚洲研究院是一个很好的科研平台，不同领域的优秀的研究员都在这里，有很多学习和成长的机会；同时，...
MoCapAct: Training humanoid robots to “Move Like Jagger”
| Nolan Wagener, Andrey Kolobov, Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Ricky Loynd, Ching-An Cheng, and Matthew Hausknecht
What would it take to get humanoid, bipedal robots to dance like Mick Jagger? Indeed, for something more mundane, what does it take to get them to simply stand still? Sit down? Walk? Move in myriads of other ways many…
铸星闪耀 | 姚迪：与优秀年轻学者互相激发，做顶天立地的研究
编者按：微软亚洲研究院“铸星计划”旨在发掘和助力新一代青年学者，使其成为科研创新能力突出、走在世界科技前沿的学术带头人。无论是与领域内顶尖研究员合作的机会，还是最新、最丰富的数据集和强大的支持资源，抑或是产业界独有的实际应用场景，都吸引着青年才俊们来到微软亚洲研究院探索领域内前沿新知。 年轻、开拓、探索，是铸星计划的关键词；合作、创新、成就，是每个学术新星发光闪耀的必经之途。通过“铸星计划”，来自...
In the news | FINN
Microsoft’s AirSim uses virtual world to prepare aircraft for real life challenges
Microsoft’s Project AirSim, a new platform to safely build, train and test autonomous aircraft through high-fidelity simulation, offers developers a “unique” opportunity to use a scalable system that ensures their models can meet real-world challenges, Ganesh Rao, general manager at…
In the news | IEEE Spectrum
Supercomputer Emulator: AI’s New Role in Science
Microsoft’s head of AI4Science sees machine learning partially supplanting simulation. Artificial intelligence has become an indispensable tool in many scientists’ lives, such that its use by researchers now has its own moniker—AI4Science—used by conferences and laboratories. Last month, Microsoft announced its own…