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VinVL: Advancing the state of the art for vision-language models
| Pengchuan Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Jianfeng Gao
Humans understand the world by perceiving and fusing information from multiple channels, such as images viewed by the eyes, voices heard by the ears, and other forms of sensory input. One of the core aspirations in AI is to develop…
Awards | ACM
4 Microsoft Researchers named Fellows of the ACM
Andy Gordon, Dave Maltz, Meredith Ringel Morris and Tony Hoare (retired Microsoft) were named as one of the 95 2020 ACM Fellows for their contributions to computing. Andy is recognized for his contributions to programming languages: their principles, logic, usability,…
Awards | Seagull: An Infrastructure for Load Prediction and Optimized Resource Allocation
Top project in Azure All Hands 2021
Microsoft DeBERTa surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark
| Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, and Weizhu Chen
Natural language understanding (NLU) is one of the longest running goals in AI, and SuperGLUE is currently among the most challenging benchmarks for evaluating NLU models. The benchmark consists of a wide range of NLU tasks, including question answering, natural…
Awards | British Computer Society
Ahmed Awadallah awarded the 2020 Karen Sparck Jones Award
Ahmed Awadallah received the 2020 Karen Sparck Jones Award (opens in new tab) presented by the British Computer Society (BCS). This award is given to researchers within 10 years of their PhD who have contributed significantly to information retrieval and/or…
In the news | Adafruit
Expressive Pixels for Adafruit Matrix Portal
In this guide, you will connect the Expressive Pixels Windows app with an Adafruit Matrix Portal RGB LED matrix panel to: display dazzling animations on the RGB LED matrix, save images directly to the Matrix Portal using its built-in flash…
NeurIPS 2020: Moving toward real-world reinforcement learning via batch RL, strategic exploration, and representation learning
As human beings, we encounter unfamiliar situations all the time—learning to drive, living on our own for the first time, starting a new job. And while we can anticipate what to expect based on what others have told us or…
Awards | ACM SIGHPC and IEEE TCHPC
Karin Strauss awarded SC2020 Test of Time Award at SC2020
Karin Strauss and many co-authors received the SuperComputing 2020 Test of Time Award for their paper An Overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer. This BlueGene/L project (opens in new tab) was the top computer on the Top500 supercomputer list for a…
Awards | ACM
DeLine, Hinckley and Ringel-Morris receive Lasting Impact Award at Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2020
The Lasting Impact Award at Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) 2020 goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on ISS as a field. The 2020 Lasting Impact Award was awarded to Rob…