Awards | ACM
ACM SenSys Test of Time Award 2019
The Test of Time Award was established by the SenSys Steering Committee in 2014 to recognize papers that are at least 10 years old and had a long lasting impact on the field. Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee received the…
In the news | AdWeek
Microsoft Warns Its Advanced Chatbot Might Say Offensive Things
Microsoft researchers have released a chatbot version of a cutting-edge text generator trained on tens of millions of Reddit posts—albeit with a disclaimer in place should things get offensive.
In the news | The Architect's Paper
Jenny Sabin’s installation for Microsoft responds to occupants’ emotions
A large-scale installation powered by AI, Project Ada, responds to occupants' emotions, and is part of a broader push to embed sensing and artificial intelligence into the built environment.
Awards | NEC C&C Foundation
Leslie Lamport awarded NEC C&C Foundation prize
Leslie Lamport, Distinguished Scientist, received the NEC C&C Foundation prize for outstanding contributions to the development of fundamental theories in distributed computing systems. The Foundation presents the C&C Prizes to distinguished persons in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and development and/or…
In the news | The Register
What could go wrong? Redmond researchers release a blabbering bot trained on Reddit chats
Microsoft researchers have built a chatbot from OpenAI’s text-generating model GPT-2, and trained it on millions of conversations scraped from... oh crap. Reddit.
In the news | Ars Technica
Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage
Ars spoke Tuesday with Dr. Ant Rowstron, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, about an innovative cold storage project called Silica. Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for…
Optics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich
Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, we’re now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the bytes of the day, and it turns out it’s hard to fit…
In the news | Movieweb
Superman: The Movie Gets Archived on Futuristic Glass Disc by Microsoft
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have partnered to preserve the iconic superhero movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a coaster. The idea, hopefully, is that this type of storage technology could help to preserve classic movies for…