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Research Focus: Week of May 8, 2023
In this issue: Microsoft researchers win four more awards; AutoRXN automates calculations of molecular systems; LLM accelerator losslessly improves the efficiency of autoregressive decoding; a frequency domain approach to predict power system transients.
Awards | Ivan Tashev receives 2022 IEEE SPS Industrial Innovation Award
Ivan Tashev receives 2023 IEEE SPS Industrial Innovation Award
Dr. Ivan Tashev named recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing society “Industrial Innovation Award” for 2022 with citation “For outstanding contributions to microphone array and speech enhancement systems.”
In the news | Microsoft FLAML on GitHub
Surpassing 1 Million Downloads – A Retrospective and a Look into the Future
This week, FLAML has reached a significant milestone: 1 million downloads. Originating as an intern research project within Microsoft Research, FLAML has grown into an open-source library used widely across the industry and supported by an active community. As we…
In the news | The Times of Israel
Microsoft partners with Start-Up Nation Central to tap Israeli agrifood tech
US tech giant Microsoft has partnered with Start-Up Nation Central to help Israeli agrifood tech startups augment their AI-powered models for sustainable farming solutions and get exposure to global markets. Microsoft and Start-Up Nation Central are working together to identify…
AI Frontiers: Models and Systems with Ece Kamar
| Ashley Llorens and Ece Kamar
The third episode of AI Frontiers features Ece Kamar, deputy lab director at Microsoft Research Redmond. Kamar draws on decades of experience in AI research and an opportunity she and Microsoft colleagues had to evaluate and experiment with GPT-4 prior…
Research Focus: Week of April 10, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity…
In the news | Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
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In the news | BBC: The Climate Question
Can artificial intelligence help farmers adapt to the effects of climate change?
AI is changing the way we work and live. But with climate change impacting seasonal temperatures and rainfalls around the world, can it help make food production more sustainable?
AI Explainer: Foundation models and the next era of AI
| Ahmed Awadallah
The release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 is a significant advance that builds on several years of rapid innovation in foundation models. GPT-4, which was trained on the Microsoft Azure AI supercomputer, has exhibited significantly improved abilities across many dimensions—from summarizing lengthy…