First ever Microsoft Research Summit explores science and technology aimed at big challenges
| Ashley Llorens
For 30 years, Microsoft Research has brought together great minds from around the world to take on the biggest research challenges facing society. As we enter our fourth decade, the need for collaborative research—and the opportunities it presents—have never been…
In the news | Microsoft Innovation
Tech Minutes: Mastering Mahjong with AI
Discover how we developed Super Phoenix, a series of AI algorithmic breakthroughs, to navigate the uncertain nature of Mahjong. Presented by Junjie Li, Senior Research SDE at Microsoft Research Asia.
In the news | Azure Blog
Humana leverages Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare to develop advanced predictive models
Trips to the hospital happen. And while everyone in the industry strives to deliver world-class care for in-patient experiences, everyone—patients and care teams alike, would prefer to avoid those stays at the hospital. The teams at Humana believed they had…
In the news | MICROSOFT AZURE BLOG
Unleashing the true potential of 5G with cloud networks
For many, the intersection of 5G wireless and the Internet offers very little by way of new information, just from a quick, surface-level glance. However, things look very different when considered in light of the 5G New Radio (NR) standard.
Awards | ICCV 2021
“Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows” receives ICCV 2021 Best Paper Award (Marr Prize)
Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows, received ICCV 2021 Best Paper Award (Marr Prize). The Microsoft Research co-authors include Yue Cao, Baining Guo, Han Hu, Steve Lin.
Microsoft Translator: Now translating 100 languages and counting!
| Krishna Doss Mohan and Jann Skotdal
Today, we’re excited to announce that Microsoft Translator has added 12 new languages and dialects to the growing repertoire of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Translator, bringing us to a total of 103 languages! The new languages, which are natively spoken…
Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, the World’s Largest and Most Powerful Generative Language Model
| Ali Alvi and Paresh Kharya
We are excited to introduce the DeepSpeed- and Megatron-powered Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model (MT-NLG), the largest and the most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date, with 530 billion parameters. It is the result of a research collaboration…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft taps AI techniques to bring Translator to 100 languages
Today, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Translator, its AI-powered text translation service, now supports more than 100 different languages and dialects. With the addition of 12 new languages including Georgian, Macedonian, Tibetan, and Uyghur, Microsoft claims that Translator can now make…
Awards | X-Rings: A Hand-mounted 360 Degree Shape Display for Grasping in Virtual Reality
Best Paper: Honorable Mention Paper, UIST 2021