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The Capital Markets FinTech Forum by ipushpull provides regular industry news, interviews and discussion on hot topics impacting our sector. Being a fintech gives us a unique perspective on the market as well as access to the views of leading banks, brokers, traders, asset managers and data services businesses. Whether you're interested in APIs, data distribution, chatbots or workflow automation, we aim to bring you interesting perspectives and insight from across the financial services sect ...
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Emre Kiciman shares how some keen observations and a desire to have front-end impact led him to make the jump from systems and networking to computational social science and now causal analysis and large-scale AI—and how systems thinking still impacts his work. Learn more: AI Controller Interface: Generative AI with a lightweight, LLM-integrated VM…
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A lack of appropriate data, decreased model performance, and other obstacles have made it difficult to expand the input language models can receive. Li Lyna Zhang introduces LongRoPE, a method capable of extending content windows to more than 2 million tokens. Read the paper Get the codeBy Researchers across the Microsoft research community
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Senior Researcher Arindam Mitra introduces AgentInstruct. Using raw data sources, the automated multi-agent framework can create diverse, high-quality synthetic data at scale for the post-training of small and large language models. Read the paperBy Researchers across the Microsoft research community
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Collaborators: Sustainable electronics with Jake Smith and Aniruddh Vashisth
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Printed circuit boards are abundant—in the stuff we use and in landfills. Researcher Jake Smith and professor Aniruddh Vashisth discuss the development of vitrimer-based PCBs that perform comparably to traditional PCBs but have less environmental impact. Learn more: Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics | Natu…
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Trade Smarter: Harness the Power of Proactive Trading Activity Monitoring
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Join host Steve Grob, founder of Vision57, as he explores the groundbreaking collaboration between Mike Powell, CEO of Rapid Addition, and Dan Eccleston, co-founder of ipushpull. This insightful conversation delves into how their combined technologies are revolutionising trading activity monitoring, enabling traders to be more proactive and place m…
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Ideas: Solving network management puzzles with Behnaz Arzani
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Behnaz Arzani loves hard problems and the freedom to explore. That makes research a great fit! She discusses her work in network management, including the potential role of LLMs in the field; the challenges that excite her; and how storytelling changed her life. Learn more: Solving Max-Min Fair Resource Allocations Quickly on Large Graphs | Publica…
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Principal PM Manager Weishung Liu shares how a career delivering products and customer experiences aligns with her love of people and storytelling and how—despite efforts to defy the expectations that come with growing up in Silicon Valley—she landed in tech. Learn more: Weishung Liu at Microsoft Research Watch For | Project page Developer Tech Min…
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Ideas: Designing AI for people with Abigail Sellen
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Social scientist and HCI expert Abigail Sellen explores the critical understanding needed to build human-centric AI through the lens of the new AICE initiative, a collective of interdisciplinary researchers studying AI impact on human cognition and the economy. Learn more: AI, Cognition, and the Economy (AICE) Responsible AI Principles and Approach…
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Andrey Kolobov discusses WindSeer, a small CNN capable of estimating the wind field around an sUAV in flight more finely and with less compute and data than traditional models. The advancement can help support longer and safer autonomous flights. Learn more: WindSeer: Real-time volumetric wind prediction over complex terrain aboard a small uncrewed…
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Jacki O'Neill saw an opportunity to expand Microsoft research efforts to Africa. She now leads Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi (formerly MARI). O'Neill talks about the choices that got her there, the lab’s impact, and how living abroad is good for innovation. Learn more: Jacki O'Neill at Microsoft Research Microsoft Research Africa (formerly MAR…
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What is your chat strategy? Interview with Saleem Bhatti, Professor at St Andrews
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In the podcast episode of "What is your Chat Strategy?" featuring Dan Eccleston, Co-Founder of ipushpull, and Saleem Bhatti, Professor at St. Andrews University, they delve into the evolving landscape of chat technologies and data security. Topics covered: Evolution of Communication Systems: Saleem discusses the shift from traditional methods like …
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What is your Chat Strategy? Interview with Peyman Mestchian, Director of Research, UCL
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In this podcast episode of "What is your Chat Strategy?" featuring Dan Eccleston, Co-Founder of ipushpull, interviewing Peyman Mestchian, Director of Research at UCL, they explore the transformative impact of AI and chat platforms on financial markets. Topics covered: Evolution and Accessibility of AI: Peyman discusses the history and recent access…
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Researcher Michel Galley explores how he and fellow researchers combined new and existing data to create MathVista, an open-source benchmark for measuring the mathematical reasoning capabilities of foundation models in scenarios that involve text and images. Read the paper Get the code & datasetBy Researchers across the Microsoft research community
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Ideas: Exploring AI frontiers with Rafah Hosn
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Energized by disruption, partner group product manager Rafah Hosn is helping to drive scientific advancement in AI for Microsoft. She talks about the mindset needed to work at the frontiers of AI and how the research-to-product pipeline is changing in the GenAI era. Learn more: AI Frontiers - Microsoft Research Responsible AI Principles and Approac…
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Tusher Chakraborty talks about the paper “Spectrumize: Spectrum-efficient Satellite Networks for the Internet of Things,” including a method for supporting communication between a large IoT-satellite constellation and devices on Earth within a limited spectrum. Read the paperBy Researchers across the Microsoft research community
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Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali
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The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she had to work with low-resource languages. Learn more: The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World | Pu…
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AI Frontiers: Rethinking intelligence with Ashley Llorens and Ida Momennejad
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Principal Researcher Ida Momennejad brings her expertise in cognitive neuroscience and computer science to this in-depth conversation about general intelligence and what the evolution of the brain across species can teach us about building AI. Learn more: AI and Microsoft Research | Focus Area Evaluating Cognitive Maps and Planning in Large Languag…
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Senior Researcher Chang Liu discusses M-OFDFT, a variation of orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) that leverages deep learning to help identify molecular properties in a way that minimizes the tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency. Read the paperBy Researchers across the Microsoft research community
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What is your Chat Strategy? Interview with Andreas Hoff, Head of Product at Trayport
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In the podcast episode of "What is your chat strategy?" featuring Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, and Andreas Hoff, Head of Product at Trayport, they delve into the evolving landscape of chat technologies in the commodities and energy markets. Topics covered: Chat Platforms in Trading: Andreas highlights the dual nature of chat platforms used amo…
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Can how we think about our thinking help us better incorporate generative AI in our lives & work? Explore metacognition’s potential to improve the tech’s usability on “Abstracts,” then sign up for Microsoft Research Forum for more on this & other AI work. Read the paperBy Researchers across the Microsoft research community
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