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Diversifying the telecommunications supply chain with Open RAN
Over the past few years, there has been an increasingly steady drumbeat for the need to diversify and open the telecommunications supply chain. A key part of this supply chain that can be diversified is radio access network (RAN), where…
Segmenting objects in images is a fundamental step that researchers have taken towards achieving scene understanding and has played a crucial role in numerous vision systems. The most common approach in this line of research is to classify individual pixels…
Awards | Committee of President of Statistical Societies
Lester Mackey selected to the 2022 COPSS Leadership Academy
Lester Mackey was selected to be a member of the 2022 (opens in new tab)COPSS Leadership Academy. Started in 2021, the Academy is comprised of emerging leaders who play an important role in shaping the future of the statistics discipline.…
Imitation learning has proven to be effective for learning sequential decision-making policies directly from expert demonstrations, reducing the need for costly and risky environmental interactions. Behavioral cloning is a simple form of imitation learning and learns a policy by solving…
In the news | Pharmaphorum
AI tool helps detect leprosy using pictures
Ann Aerts, head of the Novartis Foundation, tells us about AI4Leprosy, a diagnostic assistant researchers developed that helps healthcare workers detect leprosy with over 90% accuracy using pictures of a patient’s skin lesion. An international team of scientists — led…
Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins episode 1 with Desmond Patton and Mary L. Gray
In “Just Tech: Centering Community-Driven Innovation at the Margins,” Senior Principal Researcher Mary L. Gray explores how technology and community intertwine and the role technology can play in supporting community-driven innovation and community-based organizations. Dr. Gray and her team are…
In the news | The Register
Microsoft to upgrade language translator with new class of AI model
Microsoft is replacing at least some of its natural-language processing systems with a more efficient class of AI model. These transformer-based architectures have been named "Z-code Mixture of Experts." Only parts of these models are activated when they're run since…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Closing the cybersecurity skills gap – Microsoft expands efforts to 23 countries
Cybersecurity continues to be a significant threat for governments, businesses and individuals around the world. From supply chain disruptions to ransomware attacks, cybercriminals have become increasingly sophisticated and the threat landscape more diverse. These cybersecurity challenges are compounded by a…
In the news | Neowin
Microsoft is working with Nvidia to build confidential GPUs in the cloud
Many organizations, both big and small, utilize the cloud for their data-related needs in storage and AI solutions. In order to secure the privacy and security of sensitive data, it is essential to use confidential computing. For those unaware, this…