Responsible AI with Dr. Saleema Amershi
There’s an old adage that says if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. But when it comes to AI, Dr. Saleema Amershi, a principal researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at…
Prediction-Guided Design for Software Systems
Data Science Summer School 2019 – Replicating “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force”
This project replicates and extends a recent paper on racial bias in police use of force. We selected this paper because it is both widely read and also an ideal candidate for a data analysis…
Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020
The 7th annual workshop of the Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative engagement between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich and EPFL, took place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. Each of the twelve project teams…
Microsoft Investigator fellows accelerate scientific and teaching impact with Azure cloud computing
I am pleased to announce the winners of the new Microsoft Investigator Fellowship. This fellowship is designed to empower researchers of all disciplines who plan to make an impact with research and teaching using the…
Project Rocket platform—designed for easy, customizable live video analytics—is open source
Thanks to advances in computer vision and deep neural networks (DNNs) in what can arguably be described as the golden age of vision, AI, and machine learning, video analytics systems—systems performing analytics on live camera…