陈琪：爱上科学研究的“不确定性”
编者按：从进入高校开始，人生就迎来一个接一个的多项选择，无论是研究方向，还是职业发展，每一步的前进都蕴藏着无限考量。许多人向往稳定的工作生活，而微软亚洲研究院系统与网络组研究员陈琪最渴望的，却是未来的“不确定性”。在本期的“科学匠人”中，陈琪将以一位充满活力的女性科学研究者的视角，分享自己在系统研究与职业生涯中的加速秘籍。 那是2015年的初夏，毕业季的离愁还没有到来，数以百万计的高校毕业生怀揣简...
Microsoft makes AI debugging and visualization tool TensorWatch open source
| Shital Shah, Roland Fernandez, Steven Drucker, Maxim Lukiyanov, and Susan Dumais
The rise of deep learning is accompanied by ever-increasing model complexity, larger datasets, and longer training times for models. When working on novel concepts, researchers often need to understand why training metrics are trending the way they are. So far,…
Central to our Microsoft Academic project is a machine reader that understands and tags the concepts mentioned in each paragraph. The concept tags are then used to cluster the documents for organizing the concepts into a taxonomy that plays a…
In the news | Healthcare Digital
Microsoft : The Chatbot Opportunity in Healthcare
It’s not hard to see why this innovation triggers excitement in the NHS. Chatbots can ease staffing issues, triage patients to the correct services, and source intelligent information for patients to their smart devices whenever they need it.
Introducing MASS – A pre-training method that outperforms BERT and GPT in sequence to sequence language generation tasks
| Xu Tan
Editor’s note: Since 2018, pre-training has without a doubt become one of the hottest research topics in Natural Language Processing (NLP). By leveraging generalized language models like the BERT, GPT and XLNet, great breakthroughs have been achieved in natural language…
Awards | Visual Dialog Challenge 2019, Runner Up
2nd Place, 2019 Visual Dialog Challenge
In the news | Inside HPC
Optics for the Cloud – A New Approach to Data Centre Technology
In this video from PASC 2019, Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche from Microsoft presents: Optics for the Cloud – A New Approach to Data Centre Technology...
Game on with Dr. Chris Bishop and Phil Spencer
Dr. Chris Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and director of MSR Cambridge, where he oversees an impressive portfolio of research including machine learning, AI, healthcare and gaming. Phil Spencer is the Executive Vice President of Gaming at Microsoft where…