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Microsoft Open Sources Homomorphic Encryption Library SEAL
Microsoft's Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (SEAL) has already been adopted by Intel to implement the underlying cryptography functions in its neural network compiler nGraph.
Yonathan Efroni, Gal Dalal, Bruno Scherrer, Shie Mannor receive AAAI-19 Outstanding Paper Award for How to Combine Tree-Search Methods in Reinforcement Learning.
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Ethereum’s New Radical: Glen Weyl Isn’t Vitalik But He’s Its Next Best Hope
Dr. Glen Weyl speaks with the calm of a man who has history on the mind. With an unbroken gaze and an unambiguous delivery, the author, economist and Microsoft researcher calmly espouses a clear and revolutionary vision: that the world's…
Microsoft Research 2018: 10 memorable blogs topping a year of open source and innovation
The year’s end is an opportunity to reflect on what was achieved and to resolve to aspire to even greater heights in the one that’s about to begin. Looking back on what was accomplished at Microsoft Research in 2018 brings…
My Path to AI Residency
Interview with Blake Elias, AI Resident Tell us a bit about your background. I recently completed the Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I always…
Competition win a steppingstone in the greater journey to create sustainable farming
The cucumber plants, their leaves wide and green and veiny, stood tall in neat rows, basking in the Netherland sunlight shining through the glass panes of their greenhouses. Hopes were high for the plants—a bountiful crop in just four months…
No matter time of the year, this reading list provides inspiration for user researchers and data scientists who are looking for something new to learn. With selections that cover various disciplines, readers will find titles that cover things like how…
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Microsoft researchers beat Tencent and Intel in autonomous greenhouse competition
Members of Microsoft Research, together with students from Dutch and Danish universities, have won a cucumber-growing competition held in autonomous greenhouses at Wageningen University and Research in Holland. Team Sonoma, as it’s known, beat out competitors from Tencent, Intel, and…
By Ming Zhou, Nan Duan, Furu Wei, Shujie Liu, and Dongdong Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia Language is the holy grail of Artificial Intelligence. The progress of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies will push the entire AI field forward. Here’s a view…