A/B Interactions: A Call to Relax
If you’re a regular reader of the Experimentation Platform blog, you know that we’re always warning our customers to be vigilant when running A/B tests. We warn them about the pitfalls of even tiny SRMs (sample ratio mismatches), small bits…
Research Focus: Week of July 31, 2023
In this edition: A new anonymous token protocol balances fraud detection and privacy; survival instinct in offline RL; Nimble offers rollback protection for confidential cloud services; improved machine learning force fields for molecular dynamics.
Awards | Bernoulli Society
Lester Mackey awarded Ethel Newbold Prize 2023
Lester Mackey (Stanford University and Microsoft Research New England) has become the fifth Ethel Newbold Prize Winner. The Ethel Newbold Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding statistical scientist in early or mid-career for a body of work that represents…
星桥启航丨潘昊：探索全新研究领域，以“星桥”改变人生轨迹
编者按：“星桥计划”改变了潘昊的人生轨迹——来到微软亚洲研究院（上海）做研究助理，并最终通过校招程序成为正式研究员，继续留在研究院工作。在微软亚洲研究院副院长邱锂力博士的带领下，他在超表面研究这一全新领域攻坚克难，成功改善了为超表面的低轨卫星地面站部署前景，并在移动计算领域国际顶会 MobiCom 中发表论文。在这里，他与仰慕已久的学术大牛合作，结识来自五湖四海的优秀同辈，开启了无数的交叉合作灵感...
边江：在研究院的七年“技痒”，探寻大模型助力AI与产业融合之道
编者按：基础科研的创新为技术落地应用提供了动力，而来自真实世界的业务需求则为基础科研提供了灵感和方向。当人工智能进入大模型时代，什么样的技术创新才能更好地落地于产业？对此，微软亚洲研究院资深首席研究员边江有着切身的体会和独特的见解。自2016年重回微软亚洲研究院后，边江一直专注于人工智能的快速开发和应用，助力行业企业提高生产效率，加速智能转型。在加入微软亚洲研究院的第七个年头，边江将面临哪些新“技...
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Launch of African Innovation Council
This week in Nairobi, Microsoft joined with our partner organizations to officially launch the Africa AI Innovation Council. The event brought together a visionary group of African leaders from the government, private, and nonprofit sectors to explore the transformative potential…
A fail-in-place approach for sustainable server operations
| Daniel S. Berger, Marisa You, Celine Irvene, Mark Jung, Tyler Narmore, Jacob Shapiro, Luke Marshall, Savyasachi Samal, Preetha Subbarayalu, Ashish Raniwala, Brijesh Warrier, and Ricardo Bianchini
Managing server failures at the scale of a cloud platform is challenging. The Hyrax fail-in-place approach reduces the need for immediate repairs and creates a path toward lowering water consumption and carbon emissions in cloud datacenters.
In the news | Quanta Magazine
The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers
Yael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who’s won impressive awards and changed the way people think about the internet. But as a kid, she wasn’t exactly a model student.
In the news | TIME
The Workers Behind AI Rarely See Its Rewards. This Indian Startup Wants to Fix That
In a TIME cover story, Kalika Bali, linguist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, spoke to Billy Perrigo about the importance of designing AI technology without language barriers. Learn about our innovative work on ethical data collection with Karya.