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…
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…
Microsoft unveils Project Brainwave for real-time AI
By Doug Burger, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Today at Hot Chips 2017, our cross-Microsoft team unveiled a new deep learning acceleration platform, codenamed Project Brainwave. I’m delighted to share more details in this post, since Project Brainwave achieves a major leap…