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Research Focus: Week of November 8, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Generating both plausible and accurate full body avatar motion is essential for creating…

Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Microsoft Unlocked | Sealed in glass
Sealed in glass Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world. Storing data on glass might sound futuristic, but it’s a concept that dates back to the 19th century when…

Frontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach
New evaluation methods and a commitment to continual improvement are musts if we’re to build multimodal AI systems that advance human goals. Learn about cutting-edge research into the responsible development and use of multimodal AI at Microsoft.

Thinking beyond audio: Augmenting headphones for everyday digital interactions
| Payod Panda
Because headphones rank among the most popular wearables in the market, we have an exciting opportunity to expand their capabilities through integrating existing sensors with supplementary ones to enable a wide variety of experiences that go beyond traditional audio control.

Unlocking the future of computing: The Analog Iterative Machine’s lightning-fast approach to optimization
| Hitesh Ballani
Picture a world where computing is not limited by the binary confines of zeros and ones, but instead, is free to explore the vast possibilities of continuous value data. Over the past three years a team of Microsoft researchers has…
Dans l’actualité | Finextra
Microsoft and Barclays test analog optical computer
Microsoft has enlisted Barclays to help it test the world’s first analog optical computer that uses photons and electrons to process continuous value data.

Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Innovation
Building a computer that solves practical problems at the speed of light
There’s an old saying: When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Sometimes referred to as “the law of the instrument,” that hammer-and-nail idea is a common pitfall in research; when you’re not…

Research Focus: Week of June 5, 2023
In this issue: Peter Lee discusses AI in medicine. Plus, new research on data inference privacy in machine learning; PII leakage in language models; and automatic prompt organization with gradient descent and beam search.
Prix | AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for “Trust Region Bounds for Decentralized PPO Under Non-stationarity» by Mingfei Sun, Sam Devlin, Jacob Beck, Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson