微软宣布周礼栋博士升任微软公司全球资深副总裁
微软公司宣布，微软亚洲研究院院长周礼栋博士升任为微软公司全球资深副总裁。 周礼栋博士现任微软亚洲研究院院长，全面负责微软亚洲研究院在中国及亚太地区的研究工作以及与学术界和产业界的合作。 作为系统研究领域首屈一指的专家，多年来他一直专注于推动可靠、可信及可扩展的分布式系统的理论研究和实践探索，并致力于促进中国以及整个亚洲地区的计算机系统研究与合作。作为微软在设计和开发大规模分布式系统方面的重要技术带...
Website: https://computer-vision-in-the-wild.github.io/eccv-2022/ (opens in new tab) Workshop: The research community has recently witnessed a trend in building transferable visual models that can effortlessly adapt to a wide range of downstream computer vision (CV) and multimodal (MM) tasks. We are organizing…
A game-theoretic approach to provably correct and scalable offline RL
| Ching-An Cheng, Tengyang Xie, and Nan Jiang
Despite increasingly widespread use of machine learning (ML) in all aspects of our lives, a broad class of scenarios still rely on automation designed by people, not artificial intelligence (AI). In real-world applications that involve making sequences of decisions with…
In the news | University of Southampton, Optoelectronics Research Centre
Dr Francesca Parmigiani PhD in the Optical Fibre Communications Group, 2006
"Being able to work in a very dynamic environment, with world-class experts in many aspects of photonics, allowed me to flourish and succeed as a well-recognised scientific expert in my field, opening many career doors." What were your highlights of…
Federated learning is a new collaborative learning method that involves multiple decentralized edge devices to build a privacy-preserving shared data model without exchanging locally bound data. This technique is critical to many real-world scenarios where privacy is an issue, such…
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FedX: Unsupervised Federated Learning with Cross Knowledge Distillation
Federated learning is a new collaborative learning method that involves multiple decentralized edge devices to build a privacy-preserving shared data model without exchanging locally bound data.
Awards | GSA Technology Transformation Services
FarmBeats Chosen as One of Four “Applied AI Challenge” Winners
Enabling AI and Data-driven Precision Agriculture with FarmBeats was 1 of 4 winners of the GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) Applied AI Challenge. The challenge was created to improve how the federal government applies emerging AI and machine learning (ML)…
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The Digital Acceleration of Africa’s Green Revolution
In partnership with Microsoft, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has launched its new digital tool, the 'AgriBot'. A catalyst for inclusive agricultural transformation, we find out more in a quickfire Q&A with Senior Programme Officer for…
In the news | IANS
How Microsoft AI is helping India fight heat waves
NEW DELHI: Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith on Thursday visited SEEDS, a disaster response and preparedness non-profit organisation, which is deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the impact of multiple hazards like cyclones, earthquakes or heat waves in…