In the news | Irish Times
Building technology solutions to meet the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland
Within two weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic hitting Ireland the HSE had developed a software tool to support patients, from initial contact with the health system right the way through to recovery. The Covid Care Tracker is one of several…
‘Seeing’ on tiny battery-powered microcontrollers with RNNPool
| Oindrila Saha, Shikhar Jaiswal, Aayan Kumar, Harsha Simhadri, and Prateek Jain
Computer vision has rapidly evolved over the past decade, allowing for such applications as Seeing AI, a camera app that describes aloud a person’s surroundings, helping those who are blind or have low vision; systems that can detect whether a…
In the news | Microsoft News Russia
Sber and Microsoft develop a unique AI robot control system
Sber and Microsoft Research summed up the results of a joint project launched in October 2019 to develop a unique AI system that offers the opportunity to teach robots to manipulate physical objects of unstable shape in almost the same…
In the news | The AI Blog
Machine teaching: How people’s expertise makes AI even more powerful
Most people wouldn’t think to teach five-year-olds how to hit a baseball by handing them a bat and ball, telling them to toss the objects into the air in a zillion different combinations and hoping they figure out how the…
In the news | The AI Blog
With reinforcement learning, Microsoft brings a new class of AI solutions to customers
Countless companies use online recommendation engines to show customers products and experiences that match their interests. And yet, traditional machine learning models that predict what people might prefer are often based on data from past experience.
In the news | NHS Cambridge University Hospitals News
AI speeds up cancer treatment
Doctors at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge aim to drastically cut cancer waiting times using artificial intelligence (AI) to automate lengthy radiotherapy preparations. The AI technology, known as InnerEye, is a result of an eight-year collaboration between Cambridge-based Microsoft Research and…
In the news | Microsoft News Centre UK
A Microsoft AI tool is helping to speed up cancer treatment – and Addenbrooke’s will be the first hospital in the world to use it
Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge will become the first hospital in the world to use cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology from Microsoft that could improve survival rates for some cancers. The hospital will use the InnerEye project, which was developed at Microsoft’s Cambridge Research Lab,…
MPNet combines strengths of masked and permuted language modeling for language understanding
| Xu Tan
Pretrained language models have been a hot research topic in natural language processing. These models, such as BERT, are usually pretrained on large-scale language corpora with carefully designed pretraining objectives and then fine-tuned on downstream tasks to boost the accuracy.…
This year, the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award attracted 106 distinguished Ph.D. candidates from 36 leading research universities or institutions around the Asia Pacific Region to apply. As a result, only 12 extremely outstanding students have been awarded fellowships. This…