Research talk: Getting to net zero safely
Speaker: Dame Julia Slingo, Former Met Office Chief Scientist, 2009-2016 Climate models are fundamental to understanding climate change and anticipating its risks.
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Keynote: Building a net-zero future together
Speaker: Lucas Joppa, Chief Environmental Officer, Microsoft At Microsoft, we fully believe the world needs to create a net-zero carbon economy by the year 2050.
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Opening Remarks: Research for Carbon Negative
Speaker: Karin Strauss, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Redmond This track explores the goal of reaching carbon negative from multiple perspectives.
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Research talk: Computationally efficient large-scale AI
Speaker: Song Han, Assistant Professor, MIT Today’s AI is too big. Deep neural networks demand extraordinary levels of computation, and therefore power and carbon, for training and inference.
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Research talk: Towards data-efficient machine learning with meta-learning
Speaker: Guoqing Zheng, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond At Microsoft Research, we are approaching large-scale AI from many different perspectives, which include not only creating new
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Research talk: Resource-efficient learning for large pretrained models
Speaker: Subho Mukherjee, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond At Microsoft Research, we are approaching large-scale AI from many different perspectives, which include not only creating
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Research talk: Transformer efficiency: From model compression to training acceleration
Speaker: Yu Cheng, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond At Microsoft Research, we are approaching large-scale AI from many different perspectives, which include not only creating new
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Plenary: Industrial Research in the 21st Century
Speakers: Ashley Llorens, Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations, Microsoft Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft
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Dead-end Discovery: How offline reinforcement learning could assist healthcare decision-makers
Microsoft Research Senior Researcher Mehdi Fatemi, MIT Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi, and PhD student Taylor W.
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Microsoft Soundscape - overview of Routes feature
Explainer of the new Routes feature in Soundscape on how it works and how to get the most out of it. Everything you ever wanted to know about creating and sharing a route.
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Opening remarks: Future of Cloud Networking
Speaker: Ranveer Chandra, CTO of Agri-Food, Managing Director of Research for Industry, and head of Networking Research, Microsoft Research Microsoft Research has been at the forefront of network
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Research talk: Local factor models for large-scale inductive recommendation
Speaker: Tobias Schnabel, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond In many domains, user preferences are similar locally within like-minded subgroups of users, but typically differ globally
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Research talk: Cloud networking for a post-Moore’s Law era
Speaker: Hitesh Ballani, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge Emerging cloud workloads like large-scale AI and new system drivers like hardware accelerators and resource
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Research talk: Breaking the deadly triad with a target network
Speaker: Shangtong Zhang, PhD Student, Oxford University The deadly triad refers to the instability of an off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm when it employs function approximation and
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Research talk: Learning and pretraining strategies for dense retrieval in search and beyond
Speaker: Chenyan Xiong, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond In this talk, we’ll quickly go through our recent observations and findings with dense retrieval.
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Opening remarks: Research for Industry
Speaker: Ranveer Chandra, GM, Research for Industry, Microsoft The Research for Industry track will discuss the data-driven future of Industry, and the interdisciplinary research opportunities in
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Industry talk: Key forces driving industry transformation and disruption
Speaker: Lorraine Bardeen, VP, Industry CTO, Microsoft Industry Solutions Join us as we discuss trends and challenges across industries, explore how Microsoft industry clouds help customers achieve
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Plenary: Statistical Imaginaries: An Ode to Responsible Data Science
Speakers: Ashley Llorens, Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft danah boyd, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research John Abowd, Associate Director for Research and Methodology, and
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Research talk: Towards efficient generalization in continual RL using episodic memory
Speaker: Mandana Samiei, PhD Student, McGill University and Mila (Quebec AI Institute) Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful, brain-inspired framework to train agents for making sequential
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Keynote: Scaling challenges in cloud networking
Speaker: Dave Maltz, Technical Fellow and CVP, Microsoft Azure Networking The promise of cloud computing is unlimited resources that customers can put towards solving the largest problems they face.
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Plenary: New Developments in Human-Computer Interaction
Speakers: Ann Paradiso, Principal Research Designer, Microsoft Research Ashley Llorens, Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Ken Hinckley, Senior Principal Research Manager
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Closing Remarks: Research for Industry
Speaker: Ranveer Chandra, GM, Research for Industry, Microsoft The Research for Industry track discussed the data-driven future of Industry, and the interdisciplinary research opportunities in
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Opening remarks: The Future of Search and Recommendation
Speaker: Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow & Director of the Microsoft Research Labs in New England, New York City and Montreal, Microsoft Search and recommendation is core to many Microsoft
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Keynote: Extreme classification for dense retrieval and personalized recommendation
Speaker: Manik Varma, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research India Extreme classification is a new research area pioneered by scientists at Microsoft dealing with classification problems involving
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Lightning talks: Gaming and Entertainment: Content creation at scale
Speakers: Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Gaming Lead, Microsoft Research Redmond CJ Williams, Entertainment Lead, Microsoft Azure Kate Rayner, Partner, The Coalition Aaron McLeran, Audio Lead, Epic Games As
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Plenary: The Future of Research
Speakers: Ashley Llorens, Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Kevin Scott, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Technology & Research, Microsoft Satya Nadella
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Keynote: Universal search and recommendation
Speaker: Paul Bennett, Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research Redmond Search and recommendation are at the heart of how information workers deal with information overload.
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Talk: Project Dexter: Machine learning and automatic decision-making for robotic manipulation
Speakers: Andrey Kolobov, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Ching-An Cheng, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Robot technology has long held the promise of disrupting
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Keynote: The Future: Converging the Cloud & Telecommunications Infrastructures
Speaker: Victor Bahl, Technical fellow; CTO Azure for Operators, Microsoft The emergence of 5G has created an unexpected, unprecedented shift for telecommunications and the link between
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Fireside chat: Smart network pipes unleashing new opportunities
Speakers: Srikanth Kandula, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Deepak Bansal, Corporate Vice President, Azure, Microsoft Network device programmability and capability are
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