Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
VentureBeat announced the winners of the sixth annual Women in AI Awards yesterday at VB Transform. The “Rising Star” award honors a woman in the early stage of her AI career who has demonstrated exemplary…
Sriram K Rajamani, corporate vice president and managing director of Microsoft Research India Lab, reflects on how computer science and engineering research has evolved at the centre, in Bengaluru. In this conversation, Rajamani touches upon…
Around the time GPT-4 was making headlines for acing standardized tests, Microsoft researchers and collaborators were putting other AI models through a different type of test — one designed to make the models fabricate information.
A new algorithm, along with a dose of humility, might help generative AI mitigate one of its persistent problems: confident but inaccurate answers. Why it matters: AI errors are especially risky if people overly rely…
Mott focuses on designing, building, and evaluating novel intelligent interactive technologies that are guided by scientific understandings of people’s experiences with computers and information.
Project Silica uses powerful lasers to enable a piece of glass about the size of a DVD to store more than seven terabytes of data, helping to manage the rapidly growing supply.
I’ve been playing this week with AutoGen, an open source software framework for AI agent collaboration developed by researchers at Microsoft and academics at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Washington, and Xidian University in…
An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Microsoft can accurately forecast weather and air pollution for the whole world — and it does it in less than a minute. The model, called Aurora, is one…
“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier—and nearly as accurate. Large language models, the AI systems that power chatbots like ChatGPT, are getting better and better—but they’re also getting bigger and bigger, demanding more energy and…
In this post, I share learnings from my conversation with Chi Wang, a principal researcher at Microsoft and the creator of AutoGen. Agents have been a cornerstone of human-computer interaction for decades, from the friendly…
