In the news | WinBuzzer
Microsoft SEAL Arrives as Simple and Efficient Homomorphic Encryption Solution
Microsoft Research has announced a new homomorphic encryption library that balances privacy and convenience. Called Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (Microsoft SEAL), the service is described as easy-to-use by the research team.
In the news | Intel AI
HE-Transformer for nGraph: Enabling Deep Learning on Encrypted Data
We are pleased to announce the open source release of HE-Transformer, a homomorphic encryption (HE) backend to nGraph, Intel's neural network compiler. HE allows computation on encrypted data. This capability, when applied to machine learning, allows data owners to gain…
Awards | Bloomberg
E. Glen Weyl recognized as a Bloomberg 50 2018
E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and founder of the non-profit RadicalXchange Foundation. Glen was recognized with Eric Posner as a Bloomberg 50 2018 for their unique ideas to harness market forces to achieve social good.…
ReDial: Recommendation dialogs for bridging the gap between chit-chat and goal-oriented chatbots
Chatbots come in many flavors, but most can be placed in one of two categories: goal-oriented chatbots and chit-chat chatbots. Goal-oriented chatbots behave like a natural language interface for function calls, where the chatbot asks for and confirms all required…
Discovering the best neural architectures in the continuous space
| Fei Tian
If you’re a deep learning practitioner, you may find yourself faced with the same critical question on a regular basis: Which neural network architecture should I choose for my current task? The decision depends on a variety of factors and…
NeurIPS Conference Analytics
In this post, we present historical trend analysis about the conference NeurIPS – Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, taking place in Montréal, Canada from December 2 - 8, 2018. We derive insights from 1996 to the latest available year.
Minimizing trial and error in the drug discovery process
| Alex Gaunt, Marc Brockschmidt, and Miltos Allamanis
In 1928, Alexander Fleming accidentally let his petri dishes go moldy, a mistake that would lead to the breakthrough discovery of penicillin and save the lives of countless people. From these haphazard beginnings, the pharmaceutical industry has grown into one…
In the news | Forbes Insights
How AI Can Stop Wildlife Poaching
Forbes 2019 | Interview with Shahrzad Gholami on how she is developing AI applications for social good and how AI can help solve grand societal and environmental challenges.