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Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud with Dr. Stefan Saroiu
Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to Rowhammer, an adversarial attack that can cause data loss and security exploits in everything from smart…
Awards | Synced
ACL 2020 Announces Best Paper & Test-Of-Time Awards
Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Senior Researcher, was awarded the ACL 2020 Best Overall Paper Award (opens in new tab) for Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList paper with co-authors Tongshuang Wu, University of Washington, Carlos Guestrin and Sameer Singh,…
In the news | VentureBeat
AI model uses smartphone location data to predict power grid usage
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and the University of Washington researchers propose an AI system that uses smartphone location data to forecast electrical load. They say their architecture, which takes into account data from geographical…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft announces new supercomputer, lays out vision for future AI work
Microsoft has built one of the top five publicly disclosed supercomputers in the world, making new infrastructure available in Azure to train extremely large artificial intelligence models, the company is announcing at its Build developers conference.
In the news | Microsoft Open Source Blog
Introducing WhiteNoise: the new differential privacy platform from Microsoft and Harvard’s OpenDP
The code for WhiteNoise, the first version of the open source differential privacy platform, is now live on GitHub. The project is jointly developed by Microsoft and Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and the School of Engineering and…
In the news | TheNextWeb
Microsoft’s new AI can generate smart to-do lists from your emails
Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft’s AI team today unveiled a ‘Smart To-Do’ tool for automatically generating task lists from emails. Smart To-Do is an AI feature that scans your outgoing emails for actionable text and turns your…
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft: Bosque is a new programming language built for AI in the cloud
Microsoft is ready to show off the latest improvements it’s made to a new experimental programming language for the cloud called Bosque. Bosque is being developed by a team at Microsoft Research led by principal engineer Mark Marron, who describes…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft built a ‘Plasma Bot’ to tell you if you can donate plasma to help fight COVID-19
Plasma taken from the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients stands a real chance of being one of the more effective short-term measures feasible in the ongoing effort to control the global coronavirus pandemic. The FDA has issued a broad call…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Helping survivors become heroes
The world is searching for ways to fight COVID-19, leading to a surge of research efforts to create effective therapies. Thankfully, as the human immune system learns to fight off the disease and people recover, we see some very promising…