In the news | The GitHub Blog

So much of our time and energy goes into our work days, and the past year has shown us the importance of balancing work and life when the lines between them blur. Developers want to make their work days better…

In the news | Tech Republic

Illustration of the different edge computing zones that Telstra built using Azure technologies

In the news | Microsoft Customer Stories

Telstra’s purpose is to build a connected future so that everyone can thrive. As part of that mission, the Australian telecom created video analytics offerings for commercial customers using AI. Telstra adopted Microsoft Azure Video Analyzer and Microsoft Rocket along…

In the news | VentureBeat

Microsoft has unveiled a new research initiative designed to “discover, improve, and amplify” developer work and well-being. Announced at Microsoft’s annual developer-focused Build conference, the new Developer Velocity Lab (DVL) will conduct “socio-technical investigations” spanning productivity, community, and general well-being.

DeepSpeed multi GPU inference offers up to 6.9 times throughput improvement for large deep learning model inference. Progressive Layer Dropping offers 2.8 times faster convergence for large model training. 1-bit LAMB offers up to 4.6 times less communication overhead. Single GPU speedups for inference: 2.1 times on BERT Base, 4.4 times on BERT Large, 3.8 times on GPT 2, 3.5 times on GPT 2 XL, 1.9 times on GPT Neo. Multi GPU speedups for inference: 6.2 times for Turing NLG, 3.7 times for 175 billion parameter language model.
Microsoft Research Blog

| DeepSpeed Team, Rangan Majumder, and Andrey Proskurin

Last month, the DeepSpeed Team announced ZeRO-Infinity, a step forward in training models with tens of trillions of parameters. In addition to creating optimizations for scale, our team strives to introduce features that also improve speed, cost, and usability. As…

Awards | NSF funded CIFellowship

In the news | Microsoft Research Website

Dhruv “DJ” Jain, an intern alumni of the Microsoft Research Ability group, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant for his dissertation titled “Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users”.…

A close-up of a man wearing casual clothing, he has his smartphone in his hand and he is using an assistive mobile app for people with vision disabilities to assist him.
Microsoft Research Blog

Accessibility and inclusion represent a growing space in the technology landscape, and how research and development are being used to empower people across abilities is expanding in exciting ways. Instead of treating disabilities as conditions in need of solutions—as has…

In the news | Wildlife Rangers Armed with AI

SXSW 2021 | Shahrzad Gholami's participation in a panel on "How AI can help combat armed wildlife rangers" at SXSW 2021.