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The first 200 days of COVID-19
A Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, once said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it [1]. Santayana forgot to mention that those that do remember are condemned to watch others repeat it.
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HOMER: Provable Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
Last week at ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff (opens in new tab), Akshay Krishnamurthy (opens in new tab), John Langford (opens in new tab) and Dipendra Misra had a paper on a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that solves three key problems in RL:…
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COVID-19 unraveled the workforce. Here’s how to fix it
"We are living through the tech-enabled unraveling of full-time employment itself," says anthropologist Mary L. Gray. As the pandemic exposes and accelerates the shift to on-demand online labor, Gray takes us inside the jobs being created to solve the problems…
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Microsoft Research develops AI-based fix for blurred pictures due to Under-Display cameras
After the success of the punch-hole front-facing camera the next major development for selfie cameras is fully under-display cameras, where the cameras are behind a transparent OLED screen which would still work as a normal display when not active, but…
铸星闪耀 | 邢佳：我在微软亚洲研究院做人工智能×环境科学的破壁者
不久前，2019 年“铸星计划”项目访问学者、来自清华大学环境学院的邢佳老师给我们带来了重磅好消息——他在访问期间与微软亚洲研究院副院长刘铁岩、首席研究员秦涛、研究员郑书新等合作的论文，已被环境科学与工程领域顶级期刊《环境科学与技术》（Environmental Science & Technology）接收。 当前，交叉融合已成为科学研究的大势所趋，三部委联合印发的“双一流”建设指导意见...
A path to personalization: Using ML to subtype patients receiving digital mental health interventions
| Danielle Belgrave and Anja Thieme
Mental health experiences vary widely from individual to individual. Because of this, effective treatment is about identifying the unique set of tools that will help a person manage their mental health productively. And that rarely happens overnight. People experiencing symptoms…
Collaborating with team members throughout the user research process can create a sense of ownership and build deeper trust, something that may not happen if everyone's not involved. In this story, one user researcher considers the lessons around that process…
人工智能物联网赋能可持续发展
编者按：7月9日至11日，以“智联世界共同家园”为主题的2020世界人工智能大会云端峰会（第三届）拉开帷幕。微软再次作为大会的战略合作伙伴，于7月10日下午在线举办“人工智能予力永续未来”微软主题论坛，与国内外专家、学者和商业领袖围绕AI、IoT技术在多个领域的应用，探讨前沿科技如何推进整个社会的可持续发展。下面咱们一同回顾微软大中华区首席转型官赵质忠，远景智能副总裁赵楚泓与赛诺菲普药中国区医学部...