Beyond the Technology: The Need for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education
Harmful technology development is often attributed to the lack of diversity in computing. Yet, this lack of diversity is not always attributed to the harmful academic/professional environments that are dominated by white and Asian, cisgender,…
MLSys 2022
Microsoft is proud to be a sponsor of the Fifth Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (opens in new tab). Contributions include three accepted papers and three workshops.
MoCapAct: Training humanoid robots to “Move Like Jagger”
What would it take to get humanoid, bipedal robots to dance like Mick Jagger? Indeed, for something more mundane, what does it take to get them to simply stand still? Sit down? Walk? Move in…
GODEL
Large-scale pretrained models for goal-directed dialog. This repository showcases building goal-directed dialog using GODEL, and contains the dataset, source code and pre-trained model for the following paper: GODEL: Large-Scale Pre-Training for Goal-Directed Dialog
Microsoft’s AirSim uses virtual world to prepare aircraft for real life challenges
Microsoft’s Project AirSim, a new platform to safely build, train and test autonomous aircraft through high-fidelity simulation, offers developers a “unique” opportunity to use a scalable system that ensures their models can meet real-world challenges,…