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EzPC: Increased data security in the AI model validation process
| Nishanth Chandran, Divya Gupta, Aseem Rastogi, and Rahul Sharma
From manufacturing and logistics to agriculture and transportation, the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in the last decade has revolutionized a multitude of industries—examples include enhancing predictive analytics on the manufacturing floor and making microclimate predictions so that farmers can…
Research at Microsoft 2020: Addressing the present while looking to the future
Microsoft researchers pursue the big questions about what the world will be like in the future and the role technology will play. Not only do they take on the responsibility of exploring the long-term vision of their research, but they…
A Microsoft custom data type for efficient inference
| Bita Darvish Rouhani, Doug Burger, Eric Chung, Rangan Majumder, Sangeetha Shekar, Saurabh Tiwary, Sitaram Lanka, and Steve Reinhardt
AI is taking on an increasingly important role in many Microsoft products, such as Bing and Office 365. In some cases, it’s being used to power outward-facing features like semantic search in Microsoft Word or intelligent answers in Bing, and…
In the news | Inside HPC
FPGAs and the Road to Reprogrammable HPC
GPU acceleration or architectural specialization are not new concepts, but some experts predict they will become increasingly common to speed up performance and also lower energy costs of future systems.
In the news | Wired
Meet the Customizable Processor Speeding Up the Deep Learning Revolution
“For data scientists, having the right tooling is critically important, and with Azure, we give data scientists an option for accelerated AI,” says Ted Way, senior program manager of Azure Machine Learning. “From a machine-learning perspective, we want to give data…
In the news | Fast Company
This is Microsoft’s AI pipeline, from research to reality
On the most fundamental level, ensuring that Microsoft AI innovations benefit Microsoft customers is about making sure that research and product teams aren't siloed off from each other.
In the news | Fast Company
This is Microsoft’s AI pipeline, from research to reality
FPGA technology allows Microsoft to deliver highly efficient deep learning as a service in a way that addresses specific customer requests. “A lot of the problems that they want to solve are around image analysis,” says Ted Way, senior program…
Machine learning, data mining and rethinking knowledge at KDD 2018
KDD 2018, the 24th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining took place in London, United Kingdom on August 19-23 in the heart of London’s historic Royal Docks. KDD is one of the top conferences in the machine learning…
In the news | Intel Newsroom
Intel FPGAs: Accelerating the Future
Project Brainwave is Microsoft's principal architecture for serving real-time artificial intelligence (AI) that is used in Bing's intelligent search, and now offered in Azure and at the edge.