
Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.
Ideas: Bug hunting with Shan Lu
Struggles with programming languages helped research manager Shan Lu find her calling as a bug hunter. She discusses one bug that really haunted her, the thousands she’s identified since, and how she’s turning to LLMs…
Cloud Efficiency Optimization (CLEO)
Improving resource utilization and sustainability The goal of this project is to infuse optimization solutions across Microsoft’s Cloud, targeting improvements in resource utilization (space, power, compute) and sustainability. We are interested in both fundamental and…
Roadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics
NeurIPS 2024: The co-evolution of AI and systems with Lidong Zhou
Just after his NeurIPS 2024 keynote on the co-evolution of systems and AI, Microsoft CVP Lidong Zhou joins the podcast to discuss how rapidly advancing AI impacts the systems supporting it and the opportunities to…
Project STEMA
STEMA: Secure, Trustworthy, and Enhanced Memory for Azure The mission of Project STEMA is to pursue memory technologies that provide increased security, trustworthiness, and performance to Microsoft Azure. Project STEMA is a collaborative effort involving AHSI, SCHIE,…
RobRun: Upgrade Devices with Promptable Intelligence
This project aims to develop an LLM-based platform named RobRun. The goal is to upgrade a device with promptable intelligence, enabling it to respond to user prompts or instructions and adapt to diverse tasks. RobRun…