Automatic post-deployment management of cloud applications
| Nagarajan Natarajan, Lei Zhao, Rodrigo Fonseca, Tatiana Racheva, and Yogesh Bansal
In the first two blog posts in this series, we presented our vision for Cloud Intelligence/AIOps (AIOps) research, and scenarios where innovations in AI technologies can help build and operate complex cloud platforms and services effectively and efficiently at scale.…
Microsoft at NSDI 2023: A commitment to advancing networking and distributed systems
| Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft has made significant contributions to the prestigious USENIX NSDI'23 (opens in new tab) conference, which brings together experts in computer networks and distributed systems. A silver sponsor (opens in new tab) for the conference, Microsoft is a leader in…
Cryptography in the Cryostat
Michael Freedman At a disarmament conference of 1932 Einstein described our technological vs. social maturity as a razor blade in the hand of a three-year-old. Ninety years has led to little gains in our social maturity and vast expansions of…
对话Peter Lee：大模型在医疗健康领域应用的机遇与挑战
编者按：今年3月，OpenAI 推出了大语言人工智能模型 GPT-4，其在推理、解决问题和语言等方面的能力都有了显著提高，使得发展长达数十年的人工智能进入了一个新阶段。微软全球资深副总裁、微软研究院负责人 Peter Lee 是微软内部最早使用 GPT-4 进行评估和实验的成员之一。近期在微软研究院最新的 AI 前沿系列播客节目中，Peter Lee 与微软研究院副总裁、微软杰出首席科学家 Ash...
Hunting speculative information leaks with Revizor
| Boris Köpf and Oleksii Oleksenko
Spectre and Meltdown are two security vulnerabilities that affect the vast majority of CPUs in use today. CPUs, or central processing units, act as the brains of a computer, directing the functions of its other components. By targeting a feature…
AI Frontiers: Models and Systems with Ece Kamar
| Ashley Llorens and Ece Kamar
The third episode of AI Frontiers features Ece Kamar, deputy lab director at Microsoft Research Redmond. Kamar draws on decades of experience in AI research and an opportunity she and Microsoft colleagues had to evaluate and experiment with GPT-4 prior…
WWW 2023 | 一键追更互联网技术国际顶会的最新科研进展！
编者按：国际万维网会议（Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference，简称 WWW）是互联网技术领域的顶级学术会议之一。WWW 大会汇集了国际一流学者与产业界精英，持续关注着互联网技术的学术研究前沿与热门发展方向。在今年的 WWW 2023 大会上，有多篇来自微软亚洲研究院的论文被录用。今天我们精选了其中的六篇进行简要介绍，研究主题涵盖算法公平、知识蒸馏、推荐系统与图...
Research Focus: Week of April 10, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity…
Awards | ACM
ACM named Yael Tauman Kalai recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthroughs in Cryptography
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Yael Tauman Kalai the recipient of the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography. Kalai’s contributions have helped shape modern cryptographic practices and…