2020 Ada Lovelace and PhD Fellowships help recipients achieve broad research and educational goals
| Sandy Blyth
In their second and thirteenth years respectively, the Ada Lovelace Fellowship and PhD Fellowship continue a Microsoft Research tradition of providing promising doctoral students in North America with funding to support their studies and research. This year, there were over…
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Microsoft Brings Enhanced NLP Capabilities To ONNX Runtime
Microsoft has announced that it has integrated an optimized implementation of BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) with the open source ONNX Runtime. Developers can take advantage of this implementation for scalable inferencing of BERT at an affordable cost.
Microsoft Research Podcast: Innovating in India with Dr. Sriram Rajamani
Episode 103 | January 22, 2020 Dr. Sriram Rajamani is a Distinguished Scientist and the Managing Director of the Microsoft Research lab in Bangalore. He’s dedicated his career to advancing globally applicable science in the testbed that is India. He…
Project Rocket platform—designed for easy, customizable live video analytics—is open source
| Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Yuanchao Shu, Landon Cox, and Victor Bahl
Thanks to advances in computer vision and deep neural networks (DNNs) in what can arguably be described as the golden age of vision, AI, and machine learning, video analytics systems—systems performing analytics on live camera streams—are becoming more accurate. This…
Innovating in India with Dr. Sriram Rajamani
Dr. Sriram Rajamani is a Distinguished Scientist and the Managing Director of the Microsoft Research lab in Bangalore. He’s dedicated his career to advancing globally applicable science in the testbed that is India. He is, by any measure, a world-class…
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Microsoft Open Sources BERT for ONNX Runtime
In December, Microsoft open sourced its ONNX Runtime inference engine. Now, the company says it also open-sourced an optimized version of BERT, a natural language model from Google, for ONNX.
When bias begets bias: A source of negative feedback loops in AI systems
| Lydia T. Liu
Is bias in AI self-reinforcing? Decision-making systems that impact criminal justice, financial institutions, human resources, and many other areas often have bias. This is especially true of algorithmic systems that learn from historical data, which tends to reflect existing societal…
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Microsoft open-sources ONNX Runtime model to speed up Google’s BERT
Microsoft Research AI today said it plans to open-source an optimized version of Google’s popular BERT natural language model designed to work with the ONNX Runtime inference engine. Microsoft uses to the same model to lower latency for BERT when…
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Summary of JSM 2019 Session on Formal Privacy: Making an Impact at Large Organizations
With the growing amount of data collected every day, data confidentiality is increasingly at risk. Many of the traditional approaches to statistical disclosure control are no longer deemed sufficient to protect the confidentiality of the data. Formal privacy guarantees are…