In the news | Chicago Sun Times
The dangers in our air: Mapping Chicago’s air pollution hotspots
An analysis of readings from newly-installed air sensors across the city found portions of Little Village, Austin, Englewood, Auburn Gresham, Irving Park and Avondale have the highest levels of particulate matter pollution — a known cause of serious health problems.
In the news | Analytics India Magazine
Microsoft launches Open Data for Society
Brad Smith, president and vice chair at Microsoft Corporation, has announced that Microsoft has launched Open Data for Society. It is a central location for datasets that Microsoft has made open.
In the news | WBEZ
What’s in the air?
Fine particulate matter is responsible for an estimated 5% of all premature deaths in Chicago. What is it and where does it come from? Each time we take a breath, the outside world finds its way into our body. One…
In the news | MuckRock
What we did to analyze Chicago’s air pollution hotspots
Chicago has several EPA regulatory stations, considered the gold standard of air quality testing; an array of cheaper sensor networks across the city and suburbs like PurpleAir and Microsoft’s pilot project; and new satellite imagery that can detect a host…
Cynthia Dwork was awarded, with several other research colleagues, this year’s ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. This is a major recognition, honoring “specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing.”…
非自回归生成研究最新综述，近200篇文献揭示挑战和未来方向
作者：吴郦军、郭俊良 编者按：近年来，由于并行的快速推理能力，非自回归生成在自然语言处理、语音处理等领域展示出了其特有的优势，并日益成为生成模型的研究热点。为了促进非自回归生成模型的发展，微软亚洲研究院与苏州大学的研究员们共同撰写了综述论文“A Survey on Non-Autoregressive Generation for Neural Machine Translation and Be...
Ada Workshop 2022 全场回放视频已上线 Bilibili “微软中国视频中心” 可在以下地址观看：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Rv4y1K7AE 精彩报告、圆桌讨论将在后续整理成文，请持续关注！ 在当下的计算机领域里，越来越多的优秀女性榜样恰逢其时地出现了，并以“她力量”点亮了女性在计算机领域的新可能。她们的分享，会为你带来怎样的想象颠覆？而...
In the news | Global Epidemics
New Analysis Shows Vaccines Could Have Prevented 318,000 Deaths
A new analysis by researchers at Brown School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Microsoft AI for Health shows that vaccines could have prevented at least 318,000 Covid-19 deaths between January…
In the news | NPR
This is how many lives could have been saved with COVID vaccinations in each state
One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn't have to.