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Microsoft at CVPR 2023: Pushing the boundaries of computer vision
| Baining Guo and Steve Lin
In the vast realm of artificial intelligence, few fields have captivated our imagination and pushed the boundaries of possibility quite like computer vision. At the core of this domain of research and innovation lies the ambition to empower technologies for…
Exploring MSR Asia’s contributions to ICLR 2023: From robust machine learning to responsible AI
ICLR is recognized as one of the most influential international academic conferences in machine learning. At this year’s conference, Microsoft Research Asia presented its latest research contributions in machine learning robustness and responsible AI, among other fields. Check out the…
By Chong Luo, Principal Researcher Dense prediction tasks constitute a fundamental type of computer vision problems, where the goal is to learn a mapping from an input image to a pixel-wise annotated label. Some examples of dense prediction tasks include…
Achieving Zero-COGS with Microsoft Editor Neural Grammar Checker
| Tao Ge, Ting Cao, Si-Qing Chen, and Qiong(Emma) Ning
Microsoft Editor provides AI-powered writing assistance to millions of users around the world. One of its features that writers of all levels and domains rely on is the grammar checker, which detects grammar errors in a user’s writing and offers…
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.
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Microsoft, university researchers use AI to aid in study of ancient script on China’s ‘oracle bones’
Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them. The script on the “oracle bones,” so…
Have you ever been overwhelmed by invoices with different pieces of information like payables, dates, quantity of goods, unit prices and amounts? When dealing with essential business contracts, are you worried about getting a decimal point wrong, causing incalculable financial…
In the news | National Academy of Inventors
Lili Qiu, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today announced the induction of 169 distinguished inventors to be NAI Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.