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In the news | Wired
When Algorithms Think You Want to Die
Opinion: Social media platforms not only host troubling images of suicide and self-harm, they end up recommending it to the people most vulnerable to it.
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft Puts More Brain-Power Into Machine Learning For Azure Cloud
The advancements that now come forward in this part of Microsoft’s ML brain play result in part from experimentation carried out by Nicolo Fusi, who works in the automated machine learning research team at Microsoft Research.
Awards | Bloomberg
E. Glen Weyl recognized as a Bloomberg 50 2018
E. (Eric) Glen Weyl is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and founder of the non-profit RadicalXchange Foundation. Glen was recognized with Eric Posner as a Bloomberg 50 2018 for their unique ideas to harness market forces to achieve social good.…
In the news | Slate
Facebook’s Blueprint Needs a Blueprint
Mark Zuckerberg’s plan for an independent council to review controversial content moderation decisions leaves some important questions unanswered.
In the news | ZDNet
Power BI delivers AI power
Microsoft’s self-service BI tool will soon let business analysts build and use machine learning models, with minimal expertise, and no code. Access to Azure Cognitive Services and models hosted in Azure Machine Learning, as well as a new feature that…
In the news | Slate
A Little Less Conversation
Some people thought the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable might bring world peace, because connecting humans could only lead to better understanding and empathy. That wasn’t the outcome—and recent utopian ideas about communication have also met with a darker reality.
Leading labs with Dr. Jennifer Chayes
Episode 45, October 10, 2018 – Dr. Chayes shares her passion for the value of undirected inquiry, talks about her unlikely journey from rebel to researcher, and explains how she believes her research philosophy – more botanist than boss –…
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft Expands AI Offerings At Ignite 2018
Microsoft expanded its AI application footprint at the recent Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, regaining the market pole position for usable AI tools—from Outlook 365 to Machine Learning Services on the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
All about automated machine learning with Dr. Nicolo Fusi
Episode 43, September 26, 2018 – Dr. Nicolo Fusi gives us an inside look at Automated Machine Learning – Microsoft’s version of the industry’s AutoML technology – and shares the story of how an idea he had while working on…