沈向洋，微軟全球執行副總裁，微軟人工智慧及微軟研究事業部 在九月份的微軟 Ignite 大會上，我們展示了如何全面、廣泛地將人工智慧 (AI) 注入到微軟各產品和服務，以此來進一步幫助我們的客戶。在這個根本性的轉變中，出發點是普及人工智慧，就是讓每個人都可以使用人工智慧，並從中受益。我們專注於創造一個人工智慧叢集，它不僅覆蓋基礎設施、服務、應用以及智慧助理，而且可為包括消費者、企業用戶和開發者在內的眾多客戶群所用。 我們正在建立許多工具，讓繁忙的職場人士在工作上能夠有條不紊；讓身處不同國家的親朋好友能夠跨越語言障礙盡情交談；讓智慧手機用戶能夠分身有術、更快速地發送信息。同時，我們也在為企業用戶提供其所需的工具，讓他們能夠將智能注入到每一個產品和每一項商業決策中。 今天，微軟宣布成立一個全新的部門，藉此來加速這個程序。這一部門將包括微軟研究院 (Microsoft Research) 、微軟信息平台部門 (Information Platform Group) 、Bing 和 Cortana 產品部門，以及環境計算 (Ambient Computing) 和機器人團隊。新組成的部門將擁有超過 5,000 名計算機科學家和工程師。 我在研究和產品兩方面的團隊都工作過，十分相信這個新部門的巨大潛力。今天，人工智慧在改變計算機科學研究原有次序的同時，也正在讓研究與產品之間的界限變得愈加模糊。人工智慧真正有用的創新不會出自研究院實驗室的象牙塔，而會來自集跨界綜合創新之大成，是大規模生產任務與算法、系統和體驗各方面研究成果的深度技術結合。新成立的部門將大大地加速我們在人工智慧方面的創新，幫助我們為用戶創造出真正智慧的系統和產品。雖然我們已經擁有許多世界頂尖的人工智慧人才，我們還會持續不斷地吸引更多人才加入。 25 年前，比爾 • 蓋茲創建了微軟研究院（Microsoft Research）。研究院成立初期的部分工作就主要集中在包括語音識別、自然語言和計算機視覺等在内的人工智慧研究上。從那時起，我們即在人工智能研究領域持續投入，推進人工智慧以及包括機器學習等在内的相關領域的發展。最近，微軟研究院利用深度學習，在語音識別和圖像識別上又有重大突破，並將其應用到諸多微軟產品中。 微軟在人工智慧基礎研究方面取得的成果不勝枚舉，這些成果不僅正在影響著我們的產品和服務，也同時在為我們的客戶提供幫助。Bing 搜尋引擎的發展一直以來都得益於研究人員與工程師的緊密配合。我們近期獲得的突破，例如 Microsoft Graph，正是在密切合作中產生的。…
Microsoft Azure application platform, part 1: which options for your Cloud applications ?
Last week we hosted Microsoft experiences event in Paris, France. I had a talk about the Microsoft Azure application platform with Nicolas Clerc (Cloud Architect, Microsoft France) and David Gageot (Core Engineer, Docker). The idea of this talk was to give an overview of the different services that allow to host applications in Microsoft Azure….
Windows 10 Device Roadshow in October across Australia
With the dramatic new capabilities unlocked by Windows 10 across a wide range of form-factors, the ability to ensure your customers are matched with the device best suited to their needs has never been easier. We hope you can join the Microsoft team at this hands-on session where we’ll explore the latest in Windows 10 ultrabooks, convertibles, pen and…
Displaying Text columns in Power BI Tool tips
In May Power BI added the ability to show customize tool tips in reports. Which is very cool if you what you wanted displayed was already in a measure. In most cases though you don’t want the count of a text column but rather the text of the text column. Such as the example below….
Windows Live Essentials を Windows 10で
Windows Live Essentials は昔Windows の標準機能的なものだったものが、単体のアプリとして、いわばスピンアウトした製品群。残念ながら2012年以降アップデートはなく、サポートもこの2017年1月10日に終了する。 とは言え今段階はWindows 10からも使えるし、ダウンロードも2017年1月10日までは可能です。しかしいくつかの製品ではWindows 10 で動作上問題が出ることがあるので注意が必要です。
[Sample Of Oct.10] How to checkin source code with work item associated using TFS API
Oct. 10 Sample : https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/How-to-Checkin-Source-Code-65b278be This sample demonstrators how to checkin source code with work item associated using TFS API. You can find more code samples that demonstrate the most typical programming scenarios by using Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser or Sample Browser Visual Studio extension. They give you the flexibility to search samples, download samples…
Interview with Microsoft Employee and Forum Moderator Samuel Lester
Namaste All, It’s Monday!! and welcome to another Interview with a Forum Ninja, Moderator and Microsoft employee Samuel Lester. I have known Samuel for more than 2 years and from my initial days in TechNet Wiki. Sam has also judged quite lot of articles for monthly TechNet Guru competition. Sam has been working with SQL Server…
Linux Recovery: Fixing non-boot issues related to Kernel problems using chroot
In a previous article, it was described how to manually fix kernel related issues that could cause a Linux VM to not boot properly. There is also an option where you can use steps to use CHROOT and then use tools to automatically fix these same issues without the need to manually edit files. Assuming…
Linux Recovery: Manually fixing non-boot issues related to Kernel problems
You have a Linux VM that had kernel changes applied recently such as a kernel upgrade and is no longer starting up properly due to kernel errors during the boot process. Kernel messages will vary; some examples could be: no root device found, kernel timeouts, null pointer, kernel panic errors. Most of the time the recovery steps…
Stop writing bad tests. Write only the tests that you can do great.
I’ve been working on a talk on ways to make unit testing easier. I has not been going well; I’d come up with an approach I liked, do most of the slides for it, come back to it, and be unhappy with what I had written. This happened – and I am not exaggerating –…