Tech Showcase: Confidential AI: Secure Multi-Party Artificial Intelligence
This project proposes a combination of new secure hardware for acceleration of machine learning (including custom silicon and GPUs), and cryptographic techniques to limit or eliminate information leakage in multi-party AI scenarios. This project is…
Tech Showcase: Receptionist Assistant Robot – Strategic Prototyping Team
We demonstrate a robot to assist (not replace) a human receptionist. Our design philosophy is based on Reddy’s 90 percent AI principle for human and robot cooperation: 90 percent of routine tasks are handled by…
Tech Showcase: Private Compute
Microsoft has established itself as a pioneer in trustworthy computing. Features such as Always Encrypted in SQL Server show how we continue to keep trust while making world-class products. We imagine a world where user…
Tech Showcase: High-Fidelity Simulations: The Critical Path to Real-World AI
Developing and testing real-world AI is an expensive and time-consuming process. We need to collect a large amount of annotated training data in a variety of conditions and environments, and such data-driven systems can result…
Keynote: Systems Research – Fueling Future Disruptions
The Research Faculty Summit 2018 will bring together leaders and researchers from the broad systems research area in computer science. The summit will present the latest information and results from Microsoft product and research groups.…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of ML for Networked Systems
We are witnessing a huge surge in efforts and interest in developing machine-learning (ML) based solutions for optimizing large-scale networked systems. With the unprecedented availability of data and computing power, the early evidence on using…
Faculty Summit 2018: Welcome and Introduction
The Research Faculty Summit 2018 will bring together leaders and researchers from the broad systems research area in computer science. The summit will present the latest information and results from Microsoft product and research groups.…
AI for AI Systems
As systems become increasingly complicated, cater to large geographical areas, have to seamlessly utilize an incredibly diverse array of computational resources and serve real-time, safety and mission-critical applications there is an emerging need for them…
Improving Yield of Energy Resources – AI Driven Approach
As we are building smart energy infrastructure that includes various forms of hybrid energy resources including electric vehicles, solar, battery storage etc., it firstly requires data to be collected from these disparate energy sources and…