Awards | SIGMOBILE
Victor Bahl receives ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award 2022
Paramvir Bahl (Microsoft Research) along with coauthors Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University), Ramon Caceres (AT&T Research), and Nigel Davies (Lancaster University), received the ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award 2022 for their paper "The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile…
WWW (Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference) is one of the most important international conferences in the field of Internet technology. WWW 2022 was held as an online conference in Lyon, France, on April 25-29. A total of 1,822 long…
Awards | Web Science Trust
Scott Counts, Eric Horvitz awarded the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award
The Web Science Trust (WST) awarded the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award to Mumum De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Scott Counts and Eric Horvitz the authors of “Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations”. The award…
In the news | INHabitat
Solar-power EcoPod mobile device is a pop-up on air quality
Some days, you step outside and you know that the air quality is lower or higher than the day before. But until the EcoPod, you haven’t been able to prove it. Now, you can monitor your air quality and get…
渣画质视频秒变清晰，“达芬奇”工具集帮你自动搞定
编者按：是否时常“考古”一些老电影、老动漫来回忆旧日时光？你是否也有一些珍贵的录像，带你重温过去的美好？然而，我们已经习惯了高清体验，回头再看曾经的旧影像，画质或许“渣”的让人不忍直视。在这个多媒体内容爆发的时代，人们对视频内容的需求愈加强烈，视频素材的创作、增强及再创作技术也有了大幅提升。尽管利用现有的视频修复工具，视频编辑者也能让视频变得更高清，但其前提条件是需要有超高性能配置的电脑，并付出视...
GODEL: Combining goal-oriented dialog with real-world conversations
| Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Lars Liden, Chris Brockett, Zhou Yu, and Jianfeng Gao
They make restaurant recommendations, help us pay bills, and remind us of appointments. Many people have come to rely on virtual assistants and chatbots to perform a wide range of routine tasks. But what if a single dialog agent, the…
CVPR 2022 | 一键解锁微软亚洲研究院计算机视觉领域前沿进展!
编者按：国际计算机视觉与模式识别会议（CVPR）是人工智能领域最具学术影响力的顶级会议之一。微软亚洲研究院也在4月成功举办了 CVPR 2022 论文分享会。今天，我们为大家精选了8篇微软亚洲研究院被 CVPR 2022 收录的优秀论文，带你探索计算机视觉领域的热点前沿！欢迎感兴趣的读者阅读论文原文。 论文链接：https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09208 视频复原任务非常依赖...
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War
Editor’s note: Today Microsoft published a new intelligence report (opens in new tab), Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War. This report represents research conducted by Microsoft’s threat intelligence and data science teams with the goal of sharpening our understanding of…
Awards | Doctoral Dissertation
Li Zhong’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Peking University
Li Zhong was recognized as one of Peking University's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations in 2022 in Computational Mathematics for the paper, "Machine Learning Theory of Dynamical Systems".