Research Focus: Week of April 29, 2024
In this edition: Can LLMs transform natural language into formal method postconditions; Semantically aligned question + code generation for automated insight generation; Explaining CLIP performance disparities on blind/low vision data; plus recent news.
In the news | IEEE Spectrum
These Recyclable Circuit Boards Could Stem E-Waste
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Providing further transparency on our responsible AI efforts
As a company at the forefront of AI research and technology, we are committed to sharing our practices with the public as they evolve. This report enables us to share our maturing practices, reflect on what we have learned, chart…
In the news | PR Newswire
TrueMedia.org to Enhance Deepfake Detection Capabilities
TrueMedia.org in collaboration with Microsoft, will include utilizing deepfake detection capabilities of Microsoft's AI for Good Lab to train AI detection models, share relevant data, evaluate, and refine new detection models, and provide feedback on quality and classification methodologies.
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues: Spotlight on AI
Advancing AI Responsibly: AI for Good
In many cases AI isn’t just a solution to these problems, it is the only solution. And we believe it is important to use AI for good. The rise of generative AI in recent years has only magnified the reach…
Ada Workshop 2024 全场回顾：一同解锁妳的每一种可能
“如果你想要什么，就勇敢去争取。当然，这不是一场拳击赛，女性在赛场上也不会带来什么伤害，但对于女性来说，我们希望得到更多的机会。”这是天文学泰斗、国内首位女性天文台长叶叔华在世界顶尖科学家“她”论坛上说的一段话。 为了让计算机领域的女孩们看到女性榜样的力量，也给她们更多被看到的机会，微软亚洲研究院自 2016 年开始举办 Ada Workshop，旨在为怀揣科技梦想的高校女生们创造更加宽广的舞台，...
Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications
| Rodrigo Fonseca and Madan Musuvathi
From AI and deep learning to innovations in infrastructure, researchers from Microsoft are bridging the gap between architecture, programming languages, and operating systems to advance the state of the art at ASPLOS 2024.
SIGMA: An open-source mixed-reality system for research on physical task assistance
| Dan Bohus and Sean Andrist
Microsoft recently developed and released the Situated Interactive Guidance, Monitoring, and Assistance (SIGMA) system, an open-source research platform, to enable research and innovation at the intersection of mixed reality and AI.
In the news | GitHub Blog
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment
Copilot Workspace represents a radically new way of building software with natural language, and is expressly designed to deliver–not replace–developer creativity, faster and easier than ever before. With Copilot Workspace we will empower more experienced developers to operate as systems thinkers, and…