Objects are the secret key to revealing the world between vision and language
| Chunyuan Li, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans perceive the world through many channels, such as images viewed by the eyes or voices heard by the ears. Though any individual channel might be incomplete or noisy, humans can naturally align and fuse the information collected from multiple…
Awards | VQA Challenge 2020, 3rd Place
3rd Place, VQA Challenge 2020
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UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft collaborate to launch ProtectWell™ protocol and app to support return-to-workplace planning and COVID-19 symptom screening
MINNETONKA, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. (May 15, 2020) – UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) have joined forces to launch ProtectWell™, an innovative return-to-workplace protocol that enables employers to bring employees back to work in a safer…
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Cynthia Dwork wins Knuth Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the Foundations of Computer Science
SIGACT has awarded the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize to IQSS faculty affiliate Cynthia Dwork for her impactful work in the field of computer science. The Knuth Prize is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on…
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Microsoft’s new AI can generate smart to-do lists from your emails
Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft’s AI team today unveiled a ‘Smart To-Do’ tool for automatically generating task lists from emails. Smart To-Do is an AI feature that scans your outgoing emails for actionable text and turns your…
With the COVID-19 situation continuing, we continue to see challenges with in-person support that in regular times would be provided by a sighted guide or a Mobility Instructor. Yet the need to get groceries, head to the pharmacy, and to…
Diving into Deep InfoMax with Dr. Devon Hjelm
Dr. Devon Hjelm is a senior researcher at the Microsoft Research lab in Montreal, and on the podcast, he joins me to dive deep into his research on Deep InfoMax, a novel self-supervised learning approach to training AI models –…
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Microsoft: Bosque is a new programming language built for AI in the cloud
Microsoft is ready to show off the latest improvements it's made to a new experimental programming language for the cloud called Bosque. Bosque is being developed by a team at Microsoft Research led by principal engineer Mark Marron, who describes…
Where’s my stuff? Developing AI with help from people who are blind or low vision to meet their needs
| Simone Stumpf, Cecily Morrison, Daniela Massiceti, Ed Cutrell, and Lida Theodorou
Microsoft AI for Accessibility is funding the ORBIT research project, which is enlisting the help of people who are blind or low vision to build a new dataset. People who are blind or low vision can contribute to the project…