In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
With a “hello,” Microsoft and UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage
Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA — a key step in moving the technology out of the research lab and into commercial data…
In the news | Engadget
Microsoft devices store digital info as DNA
Microsoft and researchers from the University of Washington have successfully automated the process to translate digital information into DNA and back to bits.
Project Triton and the physics of sound with Dr. Nikunj Raghuvanshi
Episode 68, March 20, 2019 - Today, Dr. Raghuvanshi talks about the unique challenges of simulating realistic sound on a budget (both money and CPU), explains how classic ideas in concert hall acoustics need a fresh take for complex games…
In the news | eWeek
Post-Quantum Cryptography Becoming Relevant in Pre-Quantum World
Dr. Brian LaMacchia from Microsoft Research said that “large-scale quantum computers capable of breaking RSA and ECC public-key cryptography will exist within the next 10 to 15 years. The work that Microsoft Research is doing with DigiCert and Utimaco is…
Advancing Human-Centered AI
| Eric Horvitz
We’re excited about the formal launch of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on Monday, March 18th. We resonate with Fei-Fei Li, John Etchemendy, and other leaders at Stanford on the promise of taking an interdisciplinary approach to…
Towards universal language embeddings
| Jianfeng Gao
Language embedding is a process of mapping symbolic natural language text (for example, words, phrases and sentences) to semantic vector representations. This is fundamental to deep learning approaches to natural language understanding (NLU). It is highly desirable to learn language…
Awards | Microsoft News Centre UK
Simon Peyton Jones appointed chair of National Centre for Computing Education
Simon Peyton Jones, principal researcher at Microsoft and one of Britain’s leading computer scientists, was appointed chair of the Government’s new National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE), which works to improve the teaching of computer science in schools. He will…
In the news | NVIDIA Developer News Center
Microsoft Advancing AI-Powered Cloud Speech Using GPU Inference
Delivering speech-driven recommendations in real time with NVIDIA GPU Inference When you ask your phone a question, you don’t just want the right answer. You want the right answer, right now. The answer to this seemingly simple question requires an…
Researchers seek to simplify the complex in cloud computing
From February 26–28, researchers gathered in Boston for the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), one of the top conferences in the networking and systems field. Microsoft, a silver sponsor of the event, was represented by…