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Introducing WhiteNoise: the new differential privacy platform from Microsoft and Harvard’s OpenDP
The code for WhiteNoise, the first version of the open source differential privacy platform, is now live on GitHub. The project is jointly developed by Microsoft and Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and the School of Engineering and…
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Microsoft Unveils Cloud Tools Tailored for Health Care Systems
Microsoft Corp. unveiled a package of cloud software designed for health care systems, starting with a free trial to help the industry weather a viral pandemic that is both increasing the need for technology solutions and putting hospitals in financial…
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Microsoft Research, Bing Make Search A Little Smarter
Bing, with help from Microsoft Research, is using Natural Language Representation (NLR) models to improve the results on each search. On Tuesday the Microsoft search engine introduced a feature that serves a one-word answer for queries, as well as a…
对话ACM Fellow周礼栋：博士之后，下一站在哪儿？
编者按：《Nature》针对全球6000多位博士生进行的一项调查，揭示了三分之一的博士生可能经历焦虑抑郁。研究瓶颈、毕业延期、求职压力，博士生涯可谓“南上加南”。临近毕业的计算机博士们更容易感到纠结：读完博士该去哪儿？学术界还是产业界？科技公司研究院还是创业？微软亚洲研究院副院长、ACM Fellow周礼栋和我们聊了聊他的看法。 Q：您认为国内年轻的计算机博士跟他们的上一代比，有什么变化？ 周礼栋...
Objects are the secret key to revealing the world between vision and language
| Chunyuan Li, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans perceive the world through many channels, such as images viewed by the eyes or voices heard by the ears. Though any individual channel might be incomplete or noisy, humans can naturally align and fuse the information collected from multiple…
Awards | VQA Challenge 2020, 3rd Place
3rd Place, VQA Challenge 2020
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UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft collaborate to launch ProtectWell™ protocol and app to support return-to-workplace planning and COVID-19 symptom screening
MINNETONKA, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. (May 15, 2020) – UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) have joined forces to launch ProtectWell™, an innovative return-to-workplace protocol that enables employers to bring employees back to work in a safer…
In the news | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Cynthia Dwork wins Knuth Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the Foundations of Computer Science
SIGACT has awarded the 2020 Donald E. Knuth Prize to IQSS faculty affiliate Cynthia Dwork for her impactful work in the field of computer science. The Knuth Prize (opens in new tab) is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery’s…