In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft trains world’s largest Transformer language model
Microsoft AI & Research today shared what it calls the largest Transformer-based language generation model ever and open-sourced a deep learning library named DeepSpeed to make distributed training of large models easier.
In the news | InfoWorld
Microsoft speeds up PyTorch with DeepSpeed
Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimization library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware.
Besmira Nushi, Saleema Amershi, Ece Kamar, Gagan Bansal, Dan Weld, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Eric Horvitz To help practitioners design better user-facing AI-based systems, Microsoft recently published a set of guidelines for Human-AI Interaction based on decades of research and validated through…
Awards | National Academy of Engineering
Abigail Sellen elected to National Academy of Engineering
Abigail (Abi) Sellen, Deputy Director and Principal Researcher, was elected as an international member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), “for contributions that ensure consideration of human capabilities in the design of computer systems.” The NAE membership honors those who…
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 Microsoft Research, contends that if…
The personal web: Connecting information for better search and recommendation
| Paul Bennett and Adam Fourney
In the digital era, almost everyone struggles with the mountains of information they have. Every activity in our lives seemingly generates more information: emails, files, receipts, photos—the list goes on. We have trails of digital information from each of our…
Awards | SIGCHI
Susan Dumais receives 2020 SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow and Director of the Microsoft Research Labs in New England, New York City and Montréal, and adjunct professor at the University of Washington, received the SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award. This is the highest honor awarded in…
Meredith (Merrie) Ringel Morris, Sr. Principal Researcher & Research Manager, and Steven Drucker, Partner Research Manager, were both inducted into the CHI Academy. The CHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field…
