Opportunities of fulltime visiting researcher: MSR Deep Learning team is working on broad topics centered around deep learning, and has a sub-team specifically focusing on vision-language multimodal intelligence.
More than 1 billion people worldwide live with a disability. Using the social model of disability, we ask ourselves if the technology we develop creates or removes barriers for users who are already experiencing challenges in a physical world that was not designed for them. For example, an overwhelming interface…
In the news | The GitHub Blog
Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better
So much of our time and energy goes into our work days, and the past year has shown us the importance of balancing work and life when the lines between them blur. Developers want to make their work days better…
In the news | Microsoft Customer Stories
Telstra creates innovative AI solutions for the 5G era with Azure Video Analyzer
Telstra’s purpose is to build a connected future so that everyone can thrive. As part of that mission, the Australian telecom created video analytics offerings for commercial customers using AI. Telstra adopted Microsoft Azure Video Analyzer and Microsoft Rocket along…
In the news | Tech Republic
Microsoft: This clever open-source technique helps to protect your privacy
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s new research lab studies developer productivity and well-being
Microsoft has unveiled a new research initiative designed to “discover, improve, and amplify” developer work and well-being. Announced at Microsoft’s annual developer-focused Build conference, the new Developer Velocity Lab (DVL) will conduct “socio-technical investigations” spanning productivity, community, and general well-being.
DeepSpeed: Accelerating large-scale model inference and training via system optimizations and compression
| DeepSpeed Team, Rangan Majumder, and Andrey Proskurin
Last month, the DeepSpeed Team announced ZeRO-Infinity, a step forward in training models with tens of trillions of parameters. In addition to creating optimizations for scale, our team strives to introduce features that also improve speed, cost, and usability. As…
Awards | NSF funded CIFellowship
Computing Innovation Fellow 2021
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Dhruv “DJ” Jain awarded 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant
Dhruv “DJ” Jain, an intern alumni of the Microsoft Research Ability group, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant for his dissertation titled “Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users”.…