The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the acquisition of huge volumes of imaging data. Traditionally, research using imaging data constituted collation of data within single hospitals or groups of hospitals at most. Endeavours on a local scale…
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), is having a deleterious impact on health services and the global economy, highlighting the urgent need for an effective vaccine. Such a vaccine…
Shift work sleep disorders (SWSDs) are associated with the high turnover rates of nurses, and are considered a major medical safety issue. However, initial management can be hampered by insufficient awareness. In recent years, it has become possible to visualize,…
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Podcast: Accelerating AI Innovation by Optimizing Infrastructure. With Dr. Muthian Sivathanu
Episode 010 | September 28, 2021 Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Deep Neural Networks are today critical to the success of many industries. But they are also extremely compute intensive and expensive to run in terms of both…
The Research for Industry track will discuss the data-driven future of Industry, and the interdisciplinary research opportunities in various industries, such as space, Telco's, energy, supply chain, agriculture, food, financial services and entertainment. Hear about our innovations, and thoughts from…
Microsoft Turing Universal Language Representation model, T-ULRv5, tops XTREME leaderboard and trains 100x faster
| Saurabh Tiwary and Lidong Zhou
Today, we are excited to announce that with our latest Turing universal language representation model (T-ULRv5), a Microsoft-created model is once again the state of the art and at the top of the Google XTREME public leaderboard (opens in new…
Awards | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
The Max Planck-Humboldt Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation recognize Sumit Gulwani
The 2021 Max Planck-Humboldt Medal was awarded to Anastassia Alexandrova from the University of California, Los Angeles, and to Sumit Gulwani from the Microsoft Corporation in Redmond. Gulwani is honored for his significant contributions to software development, for example, automatic…
In the news | Penn State
Male giraffes are more socially connected than females
Although female giraffes have closer “friends” than male giraffes, male giraffes have more “acquaintances” than females, according to a new study by an international team that includes a Penn State biologist. The study demonstrates that giraffes form a complex multilevel…