Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
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Distant conversational speech recognition: Challenges and Opportunities
State-of-the-art ASR systems excel on close-talk benchmarks but struggle with far-field conversational speech, where error rates remain above 20%. Current benchmark datasets inadequately assess generalization across domains and real-world conditions, often relying on oracle segmentation…
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Ultra Ethernet for next-generation AI and HPC workloads
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium set out to redefine Ethernet-based interconnects for AI and high-performance computing (HPC), culminating in the recent release of its first specification (version 1.0). This talk will highlight key innovations that distinguish…
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What does it mean to paraphrase a protein?
This explainer video unpacks the science behind paraphrasing a protein—a defining technique of Microsoft’s Paraphrase Project. Researchers discovered it is possible to use advanced open-source AI tools to reformulate toxic proteins, potentially preserving their function…
