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Prix | American Mathematical Society
Henry Cohn awarded 2018 Levi I. Conant Prize
The American Mathematical Society honored Henry Cohn with the 2018 Levi I. Conant Prize (opens in new tab) for his article, “A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing,” which was published in the February 2017 issue of the Notices of the AMS. The…
Prix | Cambridge Chamber of Commerce
Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi receive 2017 Visionary Award
The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce in Massachusetts honored Jennifer Listgarten, Nicolo Fusi and their colleague John Doench at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with a 2017 Visionary Award (opens in new tab) for their application of machine learning techniques to…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Docs
Saving Snow Leopards with Deep Learning and Computer Vision on Spark
Snow leopards are highly endangered animals that inhabit high-altitude steppes and mountainous terrain in Asia and Central Asia. There’s only an estimated 3900-6500 individuals left in the wild. Due the cats’ remote habitat, expansive range and extremely elusive nature, they…
Dans l’actualité | Harvard Business Review
The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain
Just how artificial is Artificial Intelligence? Facebook created a PR firestorm (opens in new tab) last summer when reporters discovered a human “editorial team”…
Dans l’actualité | NPR
He’s Brilliant, She’s Lovely: Teaching Computers To Be Less Sexist
Computer programs often reflect the biases of their very human creators, but Microsoft researcher Adam Kalai’s latest project â a joint effort with Boston University â has focused on a solution called word embedding.
Aaron Sidford awarded ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention (opens in new tab) for his dissertation, “Iterative Methods, Combinatorial Optimization, and Linear Programming Beyond the Universal Barrier (opens in new tab),” which provides the first theoretical improvements in decades for…
Prix | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Jennifer Chayes receives John von Neumann Lecture Award
Jennifer Chayes was the recipient of the 2015 John von Neumann Lecture Award (opens in new tab), the highest honor of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (opens in new tab) for her leadership in the research community, as well as seminal…
Dans l’actualité | ACM
ACM Athena Lecturer Award (2014)
For contributions to algorithms and interfaces for interactive information retrieval.
Hopper Event: Inspiring Interest in CS
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research Rane Johnson-Stempson recalls vividly the moment last spring when she first encountered Katie Doran. “I had the opportunity to meet Katie in Seattle during the Graduate Cohort Program of the Computing Research Association’s…