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Highlights from CHI 2023
The ways in which people are able to interact with technologies can have a profound effect on a technology’s utility and adoptability. Building computing tools and services around people’s natural styles of work, communication, and play can give technology the…
Microsoft at EuroSys 2023: Systems innovation across the stack to help support an easier, faster, safer, and smarter cloud
| Rodrigo Fonseca
EuroSys 2023 (opens in new tab) is the premier systems conference in Europe, and 2023 marks its 18th edition. Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS Europe and hosted May 8 to May 12, the conference covers a wide range of topics, including…
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…
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