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Inside the Microsoft AI Residency Program with Dr. Brian Broll
In 2018, Microsoft launched the Microsoft AI Residency Program, a year-long, expanded research experience designed to give recent graduates in a variety of fields the opportunity to work alongside prominent researchers at MSR on cutting edge AI technologies to solve…
Inclusive design for all, or ICT4D and 4U! with Dr. Ed Cutrell
Dr. Ed Cutrell is a Principal Researcher in the Ability group at Microsoft Research and he’s convinced that great technology should be available to everyone. Working in the fields of Accessibility and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (aka ICT4D),…
HE compilers for Private AI and other game changers with Dr. Olli Saarikivi
Episode 87, August 28, 2019- As computing moves to the cloud, there is an increasing need for privacy in AI. In an ideal world, users would have the ability to compute on encrypted data without sacrificing performance. Enter Dr. Olli…
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast
HE compilers for Private AI and other game changers with Dr. Olli Saarikivi
Dr. Olli Saarikivi, along with a stellar group of cross-disciplinary colleagues, are bridging the gap with CHET, a compiler and runtime for homomorphic evaluation of tensor programs, that keeps data private while making the complexities of homomorphic encryption schemes opaque…
Live video analytics and research as Test Cricket with Dr. Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
In an era of unprecedented advances in AI and machine learning, current gen systems and networks are being challenged by an unprecedented level of complexity and cost. Fortunately, Dr. Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, a researcher in the Mobility and Networking group at…
Beautiful data with Dr. Nathalie Riche
Dr. Nathalie Riche envisions a future in which all of our data will be accessible, meaningful, compelling and artistic. And as a researcher in human computer interaction and information visualization at Microsoft Research, she’s working on technical tools that will…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Microsoft makes it easier to build popular language representation model BERT at large scale
Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning (opens in new tab), so that customers can unlock the…
In the news | Inside HPC
FPGAs and the Road to Reprogrammable HPC
GPU acceleration or architectural specialization are not new concepts, but some experts predict they will become increasingly common to speed up performance and also lower energy costs of future systems.
In the news | Korea Economic Daily
Microsoft’s edge computing empowers everyone, at anytime and anyplace
‘Azure will be a platform for everyone, everywhere,’ Dr. Victor Bahl, Distinguished Scientist and Director of Mobility & Networking Research explained. ‘Microsoft has put considerable effort towards the development of edge computing technology’ and ‘our ultimate goal is to enable…