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GitHub Archive Program: the journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
Your code is safe and sound in the Arctic At GitHub Universe 2019 (opens in new tab), we introduced the GitHub Archive Program (opens in new tab) along with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault (opens in new tab). Our mission is to preserve open source software…
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Microsoft Azure IoT Connector for FHIR now in preview
Today, Microsoft released the preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR—a fully managed feature of the Azure API for FHIR. The connector empowers health teams with the technology for a scalable end-to-end pipeline to ingest, transform, and manage Protected Health…
G’day there, I’m Michael Evans, and I am an Orientation and Mobility (O&M) Specialist at Guide Dogs Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, working in the Children’s Mobility Team since 2017. As an O&M, I support children who are blind or have low…
微软与清华大学联合提出DeepRSM模型，以AI助力空气污染治理
作者：邢佳、郑书新、秦涛、刘铁岩 编者按：人工智能如何帮助环境学家解决空气污染问题？在7月10日 WAIC 2020“人工智能予力永续未来”微软论坛上，微软亚洲研究院副院长刘铁岩博士展示了微软在这一领域的工作。 控制和减少污染物排放是治理空气污染的重要手段，精准的排放-污染物浓度响应曲面可以帮助决策者快速找到效果更好的减排方案。但传统排放-污染物浓度响应曲面需要依赖 CTM 模型进行模拟，其存在计...
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Land O’Lakes and Microsoft form strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and support rural communities
ARDEN HILLS, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — July 15, 2020 — Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a multiyear strategic alliance to pioneer new innovations in agriculture and enhance the supply chain, expand sustainability practices for farmers…
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Imaging data could identify who should shield in COVID-19 outbreaks
UCLH and UCL researchers are working with Microsoft to see if chest imaging data can identify better who should shield in potential future COVID-19 outbreaks. With concerns that current shielding guidelines miss out on people who should be shielding but…
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Microsoft’s SoftNER AI uses unsupervised learning to help triage cloud service outages
Microsoft is using unsupervised learning techniques to extract knowledge about disruptions to cloud services. In a paper (opens in new tab) published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at the company detail SoftNER, a framework that has been deployed internally at…
In the news | Medium | Machine Learning
HOMER: Provable Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
At ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra published a paper presenting a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm called HOMER that addresses three main problems in real-world RL problem: (i) exploration, (ii) decoding latent dynamics, and (iii) optimizing…
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Microsoft’s Project Freta aims to eliminate Linux malware
Last week, Microsoft unveiled Project Freta, a cloud-based malware detection service (via Bleeping Computer). The project aims to detect malware that previously went undetected on Linux cloud VM images. It's a free service from Microsoft Research that can detect OS…