In the news | CBS News
Microsoft vice president on the future of AI and medicine
Peter Lee spoke to CBS News chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook, about the promise of AI to reducing tasks that are burdening healthcare professionals so they can focus on their patients.
ACL 2023 | 持续进化中的语言基础模型
尽管如今的 AI 模型已经具备了理解自然语言的能力，但科研人员并没有停止对模型的不断改善和理论探索。自然语言处理（NLP）领域的技术始终在快速变化和发展当中，酝酿着新的潮流和突破。 NLP 领域的顶级学术会议国际计算语言学年会 (Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics，简称 ACL) 是关心 NLP 领域的研究...
青海大学 · 微软 Ada Workshop 圆满落幕
7 月 8 日，由青海大学计算机技术与应用系、微软亚洲研究院、CCF 女工委共同举办的青海大学 - 微软 Ada Workshop在青海大学图书馆报告厅举办。活动邀请微软亚洲研究院资深学术合作经理孙丽君女士、中国科学技术大学信息学院教授陈雪锦女士、青海大学计算机技术与应用系教师吴利女士、青海民族大学教授林倩女士等嘉宾，从女性 IT 工作者角度分享心路历程与成功经验。活动由微软亚洲研究院学术合作经理...
Thinking beyond audio: Augmenting headphones for everyday digital interactions
| Payod Panda
Because headphones rank among the most popular wearables in the market, we have an exciting opportunity to expand their capabilities through integrating existing sensors with supplementary ones to enable a wide variety of experiences that go beyond traditional audio control.
微软亚洲研究院推出AI编译器界“工业重金属四部曲”
编者按：编译器在传统计算科学中一直是一个重要的研究课题。在人工智能技术快速发展和广泛应用的今天，人工智能模型需要部署在多样化的计算机硬件架构上。同时，训练和部署大型人工智能模型时又对硬件性能有着更高的要求，有时还需根据硬件定制化代码。这些都对人工智能时代的编译器提出了新的更高的要求。 为了适应迅速发展的人工智能模型和加速硬件的需求，微软亚洲研究院以设计和构建具有高度灵活性、高效性、可扩展的 AI...
Microsoft at ICALP 2023: Deploying cloud capacity robustly against power failures
| Konstantina Mellou, Marco Molinaro, and Rudy Zhou
Efficiency is vital in the face of escalating demand for cloud resources. And efficient power management strategies address the bottleneck of power availability in datacenters. Learn how we optimize power allocation to support sustainable resource usage.
In the news | Nature
AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine
Digital art techniques can now devise custom, working biomolecules on demand. Read about recent advances in protein design, including MSR’s research into protein structure generation via folding diffusion.
Renovating computer systems securely and progressively with APRON
| Sangho Lee
This research paper was accepted by 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) (opens in new tab), which is dedicated to advancing the field of systems research. Whether they’re personal computers or cloud instances, it’s crucial to ensure that the computer…
Awards | USENIX OSDI
Daniel Berger receives OSDI 2023 Best Paper Award
Daniel Berger's paper, Enso: A Streaming Interface for NIC-Application Communication, was selected as a best paper by the OSDI'23 organizers for its quality and potential impact. Enso was also awarded for its open source artifacts.