In the news | Wired
When Algorithms Think You Want to Die
Opinion: Social media platforms not only host troubling images of suicide and self-harm, they end up recommending it to the people most vulnerable to it.
In the news | DARK Reading
Researchers Propose New Approach to Address Online Password-Guessing Attacks
Automated online password-guessing attacks, where adversaries try numerous combinations of usernames and passwords to try and break into accounts, have emerged as a major threat to Web service providers in recent years.
Talking with machines with Dr. Layla El Asri
Episode 64, February 20, 2019 - Dr. Layla El Asri talks about the particular challenges she and other scientists face in building sophisticated dialogue systems that lay the foundation for talking machines. She also explains how reinforcement learning, in the…
In the news | TWiML
Fairness in Machine Learning with Hanna Wallach
Today we’re joined by Hanna Wallach, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Hanna and I really dig into how bias and a lack of interpretability and transparency show up across machine learning. We discuss the role that human biases, even…
Awards | Computer History Museum
Leslie Lamport honored as Computer History Museum Fellow
The Computer History Museum (CHM), the world’s leading institution exploring the history of computing and its transformational impact on society, honored Leslie Lamport, along with 3 others, as a 2019 Fellow Award honoree for his contributions to the analysis and…
Residents at Work
Interview with Anna-Lena Popkes, AI Resident Tell us a bit about your background. I got interested in AI quite late. I started studying cognitive science in my undergraduate degree and planned to focus on neuroscience and research in this field.…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
HIMSS 2019 is over: Join Microsoft on the path to a reimagined healthcare future
HIMSS 2019 has come and gone, but for the about 45,000 health and technology professionals who attended, its impact will be felt for a long time. We came to HIMSS to talk about how Microsoft for Healthcare will help the…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blog
HIMSS 2019 is over: Join Microsoft on the path to a reimagined healthcare future
HIMSS 2019 has come and gone, but for the about 45,000 health and technology professionals who attended, its impact will be felt for a long time. We came to HIMSS to talk about how Microsoft for Healthcare will help the health industry enable personalized…