Watch the live stream of the 2018 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit – Systems/Fueling Future Disruptions
The Systems focused Microsoft Research Faculty Summit is just around the corner on August 1-2, 2018! This year’s summit will highlight how Systems are the infrastructure Fueling Future Disruptions by delivering an engaging program exploring…
Project Malmo: Reinforcement learning in a complex world
France’s victory over Croatia in the 2018 FIFA World Cup was as thrilling as sports competition gets. If you’re as much a fan of the game as I am, you enjoyed watching 32 national teams…
At The Bleeding Edge of Intelligent Edges: Session III : Edge-Cloud Continuum
Edge computing is a natural evolution of cloud computing, where server resources, ranging from a credit-card size computers to micro data centers, are placed closer to data and information generation sources. Application and system developers…
The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation
Automatic differentiation (AD) in reverse mode (RAD) is a central component of deep learning and other uses of large-scale optimization. Commonly used RAD algorithms such as backpropagation, however, are complex and stateful, hindering deep understanding,…
Top students contemplate the shape of the AI future at PhD Summer School
Beautiful summer weather, ice cold Pimm’s and the idyllic scenery along the River Cam greeted over 100 PhD students from across the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region who had traveled to Cambridge, England,…
UW Summer Institute 2018
The 2018 Summer Institute, cosponsored by the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research will be held at the Alderbrook Resort in Union, Washington from…