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Research Forum Episode 2: Transforming health care and the natural sciences, AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies
Research advances are driving real-world impact faster than ever. Episode 2 of Microsoft Research Forum explores how AI is transforming health care and the natural sciences, the intersection of AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies.
Research Focus: Week of March 4, 2024
In this issue: Generative kaleidoscopic networks; Text diffusion with reinforced conditioning; PRISE – Learning temporal action abstractions as a sequence compression problem.
Awards | ACM SIGCHI
Ryen White selected for ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2024
White is recognized for his significant and sustained contributions to human-computer interaction. He and his many collaborators have advanced our understanding of people’s interactions with information and developed innovative solutions that have improved search systems and helped address societal challenges.
Research Focus: Week of February 19, 2024
In this issue: CaaSPER: vertical autoscaling algorithm dynamically maintains optimal CPU utilization; Improved scene landmark detection for camera localization runs faster, uses less storage; ESUS simplifies usability questionnaires for technical products and services.
In the news | TheSequence
Don’t Overlook China’s Open Source LLMs
AI Controller Interface | Microsoft Research released a prototype of AI Controller Interface (AICI), a framework to implement controllers that constraint the outputs of LLMs. AICI’s architecture allows the implementation of custom logic blocks the during the token decoding process…
What’s Your Story: Ivan Tashev
| Johannes Gehrke and Ivan Tashev
Partner Software Architect Ivan Tashev talks about applying his expertise in audio signal processing to the design and study of audio components for Microsoft products such as Kinect and shares how a focus on what he can control has fueled…
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast series What’s Your Story: Ivan Tashev
What is your story: Ivan Tashev
In the Microsoft Research Podcast series What’s Your Story, Johannes Gehrke explores the who behind the technical and scientific advancements helping to reshape the world. A systems expert whose 10 years with Microsoft spans research and product, Gehrke talks to members of the…
Jianfeng Gao, Sumit Gulwani, Nicole Immorlica, Stefan Saroiu, Manik Varma, and Xing Xie are among the new class of 68 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellows for their transformative contributions to computing science and technology.
Research Focus: Week of January 8, 2024
| Zinan Lin, Jinyu Li, Bhaskar Mitra, Siân Lindley, Liang Wang, Nan Yang, and Furu Wei
Mixture-of-linear-experts for long-term time series forecasting; Weakly-supervised streaming multilingual speech model with truly zero-shot capability; KBFormer: Diffusion model for structured entity completion; Identifying risks of AI-mediated data access: