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ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)
Our SIGSAC Spotlight featured researcher this month is Dr. F. Betül Durak, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR) and an applied cryptographer whose work explores how trust can be made explicit and measurable in modern technologies. Betül’s recent work…
EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge
| Weijia Xu, Alessandro Sordoni, Zelalem Gero, Michel Galley, Eric Yuan, and Jianfeng Gao
LLMs do not get smarter just by remembering more. EvoLib turns experience into evolving knowledge, taking reusable skills and insights that help models learn and adapt across tasks long after deployment.
Flint: A visualization language for the AI era
| Chenglong Wang, Alper Sarikaya, Scott Tsukamaki, Michel Galley, and Jianfeng Gao
Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive charts from compact, human-editable specifications.
Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity
| Xuchao Zhang, Molly Xia, Mayukh Das, Anson Bastos, Rujia Wang, Chetan Bansal, and Saravan Rajmohan
AI agents can’t remember past conversations. They must constantly reload or retrieve context, which grows less efficient as tasks get longer and more complex. Memora solves this with a scalable memory system separating what’s stored from how it’s retrieved.
Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanations and experiments
| Chandan Singh and Jianfeng Gao
Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specific brain regions respond to in language.
A three‑month pilot in a Midwestern bottling plant shows what happens when AI moves beyond chat and into decision-making, where constraints shift, stakes are real, and answers must hold.
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview
Today at Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows across scientific and engineering disciplines. We are also introducing the Microsoft Discovery app in…
Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data
| Chenglong Wang, Scott Tsukamaki, Michel Galley, and Jianfeng Gao
Data Formulator introduces AI-powered analytics for enterprise data workflows. Data teams can easily bring enterprise data into an AI-ready workspace where users can explore, analyze, and visualize data with AI agents to turn raw data into actionable insights.
Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI
| Srinath Setty
Vega turns a full credential into a single proof, sharing only what is needed and nothing more, with performance that works in real apps.