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Privacy Preserving Machine Learning: Maintaining confidentiality and preserving trust
| Victor Ruehle, Robert Sim, Sergey Yekhanin, Nishanth Chandran, Melissa Chase, Daniel Jones, Kim Laine, Boris Köpf, Jaime Teevan, Jim Kleewein, and Saravan Rajmohan
Machine learning (ML) offers tremendous opportunities to increase productivity. However, ML systems are only as good as the quality of the data that informs the training of ML models. And training ML models requires a significant amount of data, more…
Announcing the ORBIT dataset: Advancing real-world few-shot learning using teachable object recognition
| Daniela Massiceti, Cecily Morrison, Katja Hofmann, and Ed Cutrell
Object recognition systems have made spectacular advances in recent years, but they rely on training datasets with thousands of high-quality, labelled examples per object category. Learning new objects from only a few examples could open the door to many new…
In the news | Microsoft Research Summit
Research Talk at Microsoft Research Summit 2021
We’re entering a technological era that is all about “me”—from personalized shopping recommendations to avatars, and even bespoke healthcare treatments. Deeper inspection of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, however, reveals that “me” is not really me. The coarse-grained ways that AI…
First ever Microsoft Research Summit explores science and technology aimed at big challenges
| Ashley Llorens
For 30 years, Microsoft Research has brought together great minds from around the world to take on the biggest research challenges facing society. As we enter our fourth decade, the need for collaborative research—and the opportunities it presents—have never been…
Machine learning, molecular simulation, and the opportunity for societal good with Chris Bishop and Max Welling
In this episode, Chris Bishop, Lab Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, welcomes renowned machine learning researcher Max Welling to the Microsoft Research team as head of the new Amsterdam lab. Connecting over their shared physics background and vision for molecular…
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft Research to open Amsterdam lab focused on molecular simulation, led by noted physicist
Microsoft Research will open a new lab in Amsterdam led by Max Welling, a physicist who specializes in molecular simulation, looking to further unlock the potential of machine learning in areas such as climate change and healthcare. The company announced the…
Awards | ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy receive the Test of Time Award for ESEC/FSE 2021
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy received the Test of Time Award for ESEC/FSE 2021 for their 2011 paper, Don’t Touch My Code! Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality. The Test of Time Award is given annually recognizing highly influential…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Project Alexandria parses documents using unsupervised learning
In 2014, Microsoft launched Project Alexandria, a research effort within its Cambridge research division dedicated to discovering entities — topics of information — and their associated properties. Building on the research lab’s work in knowledge mining research using probabilistic programming,…
Awards | CVPR 2021
Microsoft researchers received the Longuet-Higgins prize
Jamie Shotton, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Toby Sharp, Mark Finocchio, Alex Kipman and Andrew Blake received the Longuet-Higgins prize for their paper, Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images. The annual Longuet-Higgins prize is presented by the IEEE Pattern…