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    Research @ Microsoft 2022: A look back at a year of accelerating progress in AI 

    December 19, 2022

    2022 has seen remarkable progress in foundational technologies that have helped to advance human knowledge and create new possibilities to address some of society’s most challenging problems. Significant advances in AI have also enabled Microsoft to bring new capabilities to customers through our products and…

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    Research Focus: Week of December 5, 2022 

    December 8, 2022

    This special edition of Research Focus highlights some of the 100+ papers from Microsoft Research that were accepted for publication at NeurIPS 2022 – the thirty-sixth annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. In this issue, we continue to feature some of our 100+ papers accepted…

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    NeurIPS 2022: Seven Microsoft Research Papers Selected for Oral Presentations 

    December 5, 2022

    Microsoft is proud to be a platinum sponsor of the 36th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (opens in new tab) (NeurIPS), which is widely regarded as the world’s most prestigious research conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Microsoft has a strong presence at…

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    Research Focus: Week of November 28, 2022 

    November 29, 2022

    This special edition of Research Focus highlights some of the 100+ papers from Microsoft Research that were accepted for publication at NeurIPS 2022 – the thirty-sixth annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Dongkuan Xu, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Xiaodong Liu, Debadeepta Dey, Wenhui Wang, Xiang Zhang, Ahmed…

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    Research trends in privacy, security and cryptography 

    November 17, 2022

    Trust is essential for people and organizations to use technology with confidence. At Microsoft, we strive to earn the trust of our customers, employees, communities, and partners by committing to privacy, security, the responsible use of AI, and transparency. At Microsoft Research, we take on…

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    Research Focus: Week of November 17, 2022 

    November 17, 2022

    Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Microsoft is a proud platinum sponsor of the 36th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (opens in…

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    Cloud Intelligence/AIOps – Infusing AI into Cloud Computing Systems 

    November 10, 2022

    When legendary computer scientist Jim Gray accepted the Turing Award in 1999, he laid out a dozen long-range information technology research goals. One of those goals called for the creation of trouble-free server systems or, in Gray’s words, to “build a system used by millions…

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    Research Focus: Week of November 7, 2022 

    November 8, 2022

    Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Barun Patra, Saksham Singhal, Shaohan Huang, Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Furu Wei, Vishrav Chaudhary, Xia Song The…

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    Research Focus: Week of October 24, 2022 

    October 27, 2022

    Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Microsoft is thrilled to announce the 2022 Microsoft Research Global PhD Fellows from around the world. The…

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    ECCV 2022 highlights: Advancing the foundations of mixed reality 

    October 24, 2022

    Computer vision is one of the most remarkable developments to emerge from the field of computer science. It’s among the most rapidly growing areas in the technology landscape and has the potential to significantly impact the way people live and work. Advances at the intersection…